Minnesota · Nonprofit
RAIN TAXI INC
RAIN TAXI INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,394 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($130,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $238k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $302k
- Net assets
- $179k
What Rain Taxi Inc does
Mission
Rain taxi champions aesthetically adventurous literature
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rain taxi review of books is a 48-page quarterly with reviews for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and graphic novels. Between the covers, readers find an average of 50 reviews per issue, in-depth author interviews, provocative essays on literary topics, even more published on our website. Rain taxi devotes space in every issue to new poetry, debut fiction, and many works in translation. Rain taxi is unique in its focus on works published by independent and small press publishing houses, often over-looked by mainstream media. Consequently, many of the writers and writing featured in rain taxi are representative of a diverse, multi-national demographic. Rain taxi reviewers comprise a dedicated pool of talented writers - in the past 25 years we have worked with over 1300 writers. Many are well-known authors or university professors who are actively engaged in the field, while some appear in print for the first time. We provide a significant opportunity for emerging writers to publish a respected international venue.
The annual twin cities book festival has been produced every october since 2001. A day-long celebration of books and authors, the festival gathers international, national, and local writers in the twin cities to present new work. The event is free and open to the public. Audience attendance has grown steadily since its inception and for the last twelve years has been over 6,000 making it the biggest free literary event in the twin cities. The festival presents an all-day exhibit featuring over 150 publishers, booksellers, and authors showing off their wares, with book signings and specials. Two auditoriums feature author readings, panel discussions, and workshops on current literary issues throughout the day. A children's pavilion presents storytelling, activities, music, and crafts. The twin cities book festival brings attention to the wealth and diversity of contemporary literature and brings pride to the twin cities, a reading capital.
$177,843 spent100% of program spendingEach year rain taxi showcases eight to ten emerging and established writers, both local and national, who publish with small and independent presses. These talented writers, who could be characterized as "the accessible avant-garde," are eager to engage with local audiences. They represent a wide demographic, including but not limited to african american, asian american, latin, and lgbtq voices. Our readings take place in local art galleries, bookstores, and community spaces. Sample events include readings by autistic poet dj savarese, nobel prize-winner olga tokarczuk, carolyn forche, cherrie moraga, and tessa hadley.
Other program service accomplishments include the chapbook series and other programs.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $177,843.
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 2020 to 2021, from $205k to $246k (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 21% · 2019 25% · 2020 32% · 2021 46% · 2022 39% · 2023 25% · 2024 27% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of RAIN TAXI INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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.
Chief executive
Eric Lorberer
Executive director
Board chair
Amanda Wigen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $7k → $54k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 RAIN TAXI INC’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
RAIN TAXI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 RAIN TAXI INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 87% · 2019 66% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 50% · 2023 47% — 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
71% of RAIN TAXI INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% 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
66% of RAIN TAXI INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k 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
RAIN TAXI INC 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
Government funding RAIN TAXI INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $103k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$103k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like RAIN TAXI INC
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 RAIN TAXI INC: 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 RAIN TAXI INC?
- RAIN TAXI INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,394 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($130,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAIN TAXI INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $302,394 in grants to RAIN TAXI INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAIN TAXI INC?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAIN TAXI INC 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 9 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