Minnesota · Nonprofit
PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS
PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,271,402 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($477,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Paramount Center for the Arts does
Mission
To engage, educate, enrich, and entertain through inspiring arts experiences. The city-owned facility is managed to ensure use by a diverse set of patrons, enhance artistic opportunity, provide a creative environment for community involvement in the arts, and generate a positive economic impact on downtown st. Cloud.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Performing arts: the 804 seat paramount theatre is the grand performance stage in central minnesota, accommodating 90,000 patrons annually. Paramount Center for the Arts (pca) provides scheduling, ticketing, technical crew, marketing, and front-of-house services for the theatre. In addition to local performance groups, the pca presents a season of professional entertainment on the paramount stage, bringing high-quality touring artists to central minnesota. Pca employs professionally trained staff to manage and program the theatre and visual arts studios. Customer service representatives manage and operate the internet-based ticketing system, the concessions service, 3 exhibition spaces, and gift gallery operations. Pca manages the administrative offices, including sub-leasing to other nonprofit organizations, and the technical support facility located offsite. Pca also provides oversight, maintenance, and operation of the mechanical systems for the city-owned historic facility located in downtown st. Cloud.
$1,084,289 spent$1,317,773 earned by the program69% of program spendingVisual arts: the visual arts studios were created and opened as part of the 1998 paramount theatre renovation. This well-equipped facility offers classes throughout the year for all ages, in a variety of mediums, and summer art camps for youth. Pca has a particular strength in ceramics and provides studio facilities and equipment to the community, and wood-working and wood-turning programs. The facility includes a retail sales gallery that represents 60 local and regional artists, a professional gallery, and two casual gallery spaces for artists to show. Pca provides employment opportunities for working artists, in a teaching capacity, and sales opportunities for artwork on exhibition. Pca offers professional development seminars and workshops for working artists and art educators; residencies and other services to k-12 schools; plus, educational outreach to community organizations and school districts, and a full catalog of arts instructional classes to the public. Visual arts accommodates over 20,000 children and adults annually.
$376,350 spent$202,341 earned by the program24% of program spendingCommunity engagement: pca is committed to connecting local artists with the larger community to enhance and expand arts opportunities and access in central minnesota. These activities include workshops for classroom and arts teachers, residency programs on and off-site for school and community organizations, senior communities, specialized courses for individuals with cognitive and physical challenges, technical outreach services assisting school and community theatres to maintain and manage their lighting and sound equipment, and consulting services that help area schools and organizations access expanded arts experiences for their clients. Committed to changing lives through art, pca is a resource for strengthening the civic fabric of central minnesota by cultivating connections within and between the populace to foster individual, institutional, and community change. By actively seeking partnerships with central minnesota organizations, the paramount brings art to all with a focus on underserved populations, creating innovative, accessible programming.
$115,235 spent$38,203 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,575,874.
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 2018 to 2019, from $930k to $4.2M (+348%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2018 7% · 2019 3% · 2020 12% · 2021 19% · 2022 37% · 2023 8% · 2024 5% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% 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.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Gretchen Boulka
Executive director
Board chair
Hanna Lord
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $158k → $159k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR 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.
How concentrated its funding is
PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 63% · 2019 31% · 2020 38% · 2021 49% · 2022 45% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
55% of PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
83% of PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $484k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR 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.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR 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 PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,271,402 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($477,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,271,402 in grants to PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- COMMUNITYGIVING is the largest funder on record, with $477,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR 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 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing