Minnesota · Nonprofit
SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE
SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $521,650 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $252k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $522k
- Net assets
- $784k
What Scandia Heritage Alliance does
Mission
To preserve and celebrate scandia, minnesota's rich history, culture, arts and rural character.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Restoration of the historic scandia water tower barn and creation of an arts & heritage center that includes the water tower barn museum, an amphitheater, wetland trails and overlook, a water play area, and a summer caf featuring traditional swedish fare. Costs incurred for this program have been capitalized as part of the water tower barn development and not expensed.
Development of a scandia heritage trail, map, and interpretive signage that tells the history of scandia's historic sites. This map is available for free at many locations throughout the scandia community including the scandia community center and gammelgarden museum.
$2,486 spent13% of program spendingScandia history series programs - Scandia Heritage Alliance joined in partnership with gammelgrden museum and the city of scandia to expand scandia vinterfest in january with free family activities in events sponsored by sha in 2024 included: historic ice harvesting, meeting a sled dog team, a kubb tournament , meeting raptors from the wildlife science center and a goosechase trivia treasure hunt. In april, an audience of over 100 guests stepped back in time with architectural historian charlene roise to discover reasons behind the unique design of scandia's water tower barn that once stood behind the scandia mercantile. Using a 1905 aermotor manual as a guide, charlene studied the windmill remnants that remained in the building and unraveled the mystery behind a double outer wall on the tower, beefy windmill supports, and water tank design. In june, participants discovered the intriguing stories of knapp's cave, cedar bend swing bridge, and log house landing on this paddle / hike adventure that started at osceola landing and continued to log house landing in scandia. The tour included a short (but rigorous) hike to knapp's cave to hear its vibrant history.knapps cave is the…
$15,959 spent$5,725 earned by the program87% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,445.
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.
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 $347k to $609k (+75%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 12% · 2023 2% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE’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. 0 of the last 4 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
Susan R Rodsjo
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $212k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 SCANDIA HERITAGE 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
SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 62% · 2022 73% · 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
80% of SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% 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
97% of SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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
SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE
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
24% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE: 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 SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE?
- SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $521,650 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $521,650 in grants to SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE?
- Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCANDIA HERITAGE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 9 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing