Minnesota · Nonprofit
PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY
PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $980,921 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($460,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Target Foundationshared funderslocal
- Hyde Park Art Centerportfolio match
- Cec Artslink Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $15k → $310k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 FUNCTIONARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. 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 FUNCTIONARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 FUNCTIONARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 69% · 2019 79% · 2020 88% · 2022 45% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 54% 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
89% of PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Target Foundationshared funderslocalMN · backs 118 organizations that share your funders · funds 167 organizations near you
- Hyde Park Art Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cec Artslink Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelmportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phyllis C Wattis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Via Art Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Performance Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Creative Capital Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Burning Man Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mediathe Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Cultural Innovationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Still Ain'T Satisfied - a Foundation With Attitude (Sas)shared fundersMN · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY?
- PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $980,921 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($460,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $980,921 in grants to PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $460,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing