Minnesota · Nonprofit
SAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS
SAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,263 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists does
Mission
Provide the highest caliber of academic and artistic education for aspiring pre-professional performing artists and to fully prepare students for college and conservatory.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide a high school education that includes training pre-professional artists in the areas of instrumental and vocal music, theatre and dance, visual arts, and creative writing. During the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists served 313 students.
$3,291,991 spent$68,342 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,291,991.
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 $3.6M to $8.5M (+134%).
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 97% · 2018 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 97% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 97% · 2024 97% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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.
Chief executive
Callie Jacobs
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Robins
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $310 → $7k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS’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 CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 65% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“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
SAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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
SAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Spcpa Building Company · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS: 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 CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS?
- SAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,263 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $27,263 in grants to SAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $13,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS 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 5 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