Minnesota · Nonprofit
NORTHWOODS FRIENDS OF THE ARTS
NORTHWOODS FRIENDS OF THE ARTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,590 to it, the largest being ARROWHEAD REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ($13,590). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $40k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Northwoods Friends of the Arts does
Mission
Inspire, nurture, and celebrate the arts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided/rented gallery space to over 40 local artists and students to exhibit and/or sell artwork. Space also used for art classes, music and literary events
$39,714 spentof which $9,561 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,714.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $36k to $44k (+20%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
60% of NORTHWOODS FRIENDS OF THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NORTHWOODS FRIENDS OF THE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of NORTHWOODS FRIENDS OF THE ARTS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
NORTHWOODS FRIENDS OF THE ARTS has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHWOODS FRIENDS OF THE ARTS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHWOODS FRIENDS OF THE ARTS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHWOODS FRIENDS OF THE ARTS?
- NORTHWOODS FRIENDS OF THE ARTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,590 to it, the largest being ARROWHEAD REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ($13,590). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWOODS FRIENDS OF THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $13,590 in grants to NORTHWOODS FRIENDS OF THE ARTS.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWOODS FRIENDS OF THE ARTS?
- ARROWHEAD REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $13,590 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWOODS FRIENDS OF THE ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing