Minnesota · Nonprofit
SAINT PAUL BALLET
SAINT PAUL BALLET (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,898 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($196,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $491k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $529k
- Net assets
- $-77724
What Saint Paul Ballet does
Mission
Saint Paul Ballet's vision is to rejoice in the beauty and immediacy of dance with the widest possible audience and to lift the human spirit through the art of ballet. Its mission is to provide the finest dance education, reduce barriers to involvement in the art of dance, and perform a vibrant repertory with a passion for the highest level of excellence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
PERFORMANCES: St. Paul Ballet presented The Nutcracker Reimagined 2024 at The O'Shaughnessy with over 2,000 in attendance and a second year of partnering with 50-year-old Ethnic Dance Theater and 40-year-old CAAM Chinese Dance Theater. The Spring Showcase at The O'Shaughnessy was performed May 30 and 31, 2025. The program included SPB's original production Kenetic Canvas which matches a visual artwork to choreography for the youngest dancers and excerpts from Le Jardin garden scene from Les Corsaire for the upper level dancers.
$100,293 spent$17,323 earned by the program25% of program spendingEDUCATION: St. Paul Ballet continued to offer our renowned Pre-Professional training program for ages 7-18 to build the foundation for college-level programs or a professional career. Additionally, St. Paul Ballet increased our engagement of recreational dancers and community members through targeted programs: 1.) Children's Division promotes dance as a form of play for ages 2.5-7, including classes like Parent & Me, Creative Dance, Pre-Ballet ; 2.) Adult Division Classes include Boomer Ballet for ages 55+. Extension Division reaches beyond the traditional age, experience, and ability entry points of ballet to promote life-long learning. Saint Paul Ballet launched Boomer Ballet for ages 55 or better who have never tried ballet has continued to thrive and bring in new students. This programming is accelerating our recovery from the pandemic by more than six months. We have earned a full page in the St. Paul Community Education catalog which is distributed to 70,000 households. One of our highest level students was invited to spend her senior year in training at Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle last year. This year she was invited to join the 6 apprentices and has performed in…
$303,747 spent$216,955 earned by the program75% of program spendingCOMMUNITY We continued providing Pay-As-Able ticketing to our The Nutcracker Reimagined. It resulted in over 1,700 attendees at The O'Shaughnessy, with 3x the number of children who traditionally attend! Surveying attendees we found the increased participation, especially by those on fixed incomes and children were able to attend building new audiences.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
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The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $404,040.
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 2022 to 2023, from $113k to $64k (−43%).
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 15% · 2018 7% · 2019 0% · 2020 16% · 2021 52% · 2022 35% · 2023 16% · 2024 25% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of SAINT PAUL BALLET’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Nikki Bjornrud
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $70k → $66k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 SAINT PAUL BALLET’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
SAINT PAUL BALLET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 SAINT PAUL BALLET.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 100% · 2019 70% · 2020 44% · 2021 67% · 2022 36% · 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
43% of SAINT PAUL BALLET's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
73% of SAINT PAUL BALLET'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 $144k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $385k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SAINT PAUL BALLET receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $529k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SAINT PAUL BALLET
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 SAINT PAUL BALLET: 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 SAINT PAUL BALLET?
- SAINT PAUL BALLET (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,898 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($196,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAINT PAUL BALLET have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $528,898 in grants to SAINT PAUL BALLET, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAINT PAUL BALLET?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $196,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAINT PAUL BALLET 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 10 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