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RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE

RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,303 to it, the largest being OSUL T HAALAND CHARITABLE TRUST ($87,104). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$26k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$210k
Net assets
$6k
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What River Arts Alliance does

Mission

River Arts Alliance supports and celebrates regional arts and culture by connecting artists and community in the Winona, MN region.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Member Art Exhibit

    $1,400 spentof which $3,500 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,400.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($72k) Expenses 100 ($71k) Net assets 100 ($41k)2022 Revenue 98 ($70k) Expenses 106 ($76k) Net assets 86 ($36k)2023 Revenue 130 ($93k) Expenses 139 ($99k) Net assets 73 ($30k)2024 Revenue 113 ($81k) Expenses 124 ($89k) Net assets 14 ($6k)2025 Revenue 36 ($26k) Expenses 37 ($26k) Net assets 14 ($6k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (36)Expenses (37)Net assets (14)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $25k to $43k (+68%).

$41k
$36k
$30k
$25k
$43k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

67% of RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$344
’21
−$6k
’22
−$6k
’23
−$8k
’24
−$51
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Terri Karsten

Board President

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $35k.

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE’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

RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

35% 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 RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE.

41%
largest funder
94%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 41% · 2019 76% · 2020 52% · 2021 69% · 2022 79% · 2023 57% — 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.

Where its funders are

79% of RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

WA
MN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−22% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

76%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE?
RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,303 to it, the largest being OSUL T HAALAND CHARITABLE TRUST ($87,104). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $210,303 in grants to RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE?
OSUL T HAALAND CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $87,104 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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