Minnesota · Nonprofit
ROCHESTER ART CENTER
ROCHESTER ART CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $749,655 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC ($375,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $812k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $750k
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Rochester Art Center does
Mission
Rochester Art Center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. Through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse experience that encourages questioning, creativity, and critical thinking. These exhibitions and programs are designed to reflect the dynamic relationship between art and society. They educate, challenge, and connect individuals to our world in compelling new ways. We are committed to being a cultural center in our community and to enhancing our region as a destination for creativity and innovation. We provide value through engagement with broad communities, strong collaborations with other organizations, and a history of excellence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational programs are an essential part of the art center's mission. In fy 2025 we provided 479 hours of public programming. Artist talks, creative studio and multiple weekly guided tours provide opportunities for visitors to enhance their understanding and appreciation of the exhibitions. Total arts day camp offered valuable hands-on art experiences for 194 youth under the direction of professional educators and guest artists. Free family days reached thousands of visitors who experienced exhibitions, live performances, art activities, and tours at no cost. Programs are planned and administered by professional staff who coordinate with artists and instructors to provide high quality experiences for participants.
$623,960 spent$73,856 earned by the program90% of program spendingRochester Art Center presented 14 exhibitions that featured 389 artists. Exhibiting artists reflect the communities we serve including minnesotans of all ages. Exhibitions mounted in fy2025 include extraordinary elsewhere, ageless art: rochester public schools k-12, se mn high school art show, relics: camron zebrun, moudhi alhajri: qatari heritage, celebrations in fiber: zumbro river fiber arts guild, ascend: alyssa bagus and erin sharkey, rima: passages in sephardic sculpture by rotem tamir, a world that breathes behind itself: melanie pankau, still we rise, jealousy/sway, primordial shift: michael meilahn, kathleen hawkes: the cherry blossoms you missed, and mac mitzuk: nostalgic escapism.
$61,205 spent$67,177 earned by the program9% of program spendingRochester Art Center's public art program, art4trails, holds a call for art each year and installs temporary artwork along the bike trails in downtown rochester, mn. During the spring, new artwork is installed and celebrated with a guided walking and bike tour. Weekly guided tours are offered throughout the warm seasons in addition to artist talks.
$9,334 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $694,499.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.9M to $5.7M (−4%).
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 38% · 2018 49% · 2020 68% · 2021 69% · 2022 58% · 2023 52% · 2024 46% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of ROCHESTER ART CENTER’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. 7 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.
Board chair
Jon Zurn
Treasurer & finance chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $149k → $60k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 ROCHESTER ART CENTER’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
ROCHESTER ART CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 ROCHESTER ART CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 54% · 2020 53% · 2021 42% · 2022 41% · 2023 67% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of ROCHESTER ART CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
61% of ROCHESTER ART CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $295k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $455k 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
ROCHESTER ART CENTER 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 ROCHESTER ART CENTER
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 ROCHESTER ART CENTER: 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 ROCHESTER ART CENTER?
- ROCHESTER ART CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $749,655 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC ($375,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROCHESTER ART CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $749,655 in grants to ROCHESTER ART CENTER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCHESTER ART CENTER?
- MAYO CLINIC is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCHESTER ART CENTER 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 11 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