Minnesota · Nonprofit
Rock Bend Folk Festival
Rock Bend Folk Festival (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being PRAIRIE LAKES REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ($18,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $107k
What Rock Bend Folk Festival does
Mission
Once a year Folk Festival
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Rock Bend Folk Festival is a FREE event and is held in Minnesota Square Park, St Peter, MN on the weekend following Labor Day. 22-25 musical or artistic acts performed.
$0 spentAttendance from public is approximately 10,000 over the weekend
$0 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2017 to 2018, from $45k to $73k (+62%).
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.
63% of Rock Bend Folk Festival’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Rock Bend Folk Festival’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Rock Bend Folk Festival's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Rock Bend Folk Festival runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Rock Bend Folk Festival
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rock Bend Folk Festival: 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 Rock Bend Folk Festival?
- Rock Bend Folk Festival (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being PRAIRIE LAKES REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ($18,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rock Bend Folk Festival have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $18,000 in grants to Rock Bend Folk Festival, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rock Bend Folk Festival?
- PRAIRIE LAKES REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rock Bend Folk Festival 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 1 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