North Dakota · Nonprofit
Public Arts Commission
Public Arts Commission (North Dakota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,454 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND REGION ($41,454). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $205k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $104k
- Net assets
- $413k
What Public Arts Commission does
Mission
To create a more vibrant cultural life for the Grand Forks community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Artfest is an event that is free to the community featuring art, food, kids activities and art projects, and live entertainment. There are approximately 100 vendors and 10,000 attendees.
$27,188 spent$54,990 earned by the program10% of program spendingGalleries for artist exhibitions are installed in various businesses and government offices in the region. Receptions are often held in conjunction with the exhibits.
$6,752 spent$2,700 earned by the program3% of program spendingSpecial projects such as community art sculpture and limited art series offerings were conducted that are not ongoing programs.
$229,156 spent$144,382 earned by the program87% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $263,096.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $295k to $471k (+60%).
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: 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of Public Arts Commission’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $8k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 Public Arts Commission’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
Public Arts Commission leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 Public Arts Commission.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 56% · 2019 100% · 2020 73% · 2021 36% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Public Arts Commission's grant income comes from North Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Public Arts Commission is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Public Arts Commission
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Public Arts Commission: 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 Public Arts Commission?
- Public Arts Commission (North Dakota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,454 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND REGION ($41,454). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Public Arts Commission have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $104,454 in grants to Public Arts Commission, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Public Arts Commission?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND REGION is the largest funder on record, with $41,454 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Public Arts Commission find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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