South Dakota · Nonprofit
SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC
SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,950 to it, the largest being Arts Midwest Incorporated ($130,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $207k
- Net assets
- $101k
What Sisseton Arts Council Inc does
Mission
The exempt purpose is to provide arts and cultural events and activities for our local community. The mission of the sisseton arts council is to serve a culturally diverse, rural population with a wide variety of arts programming that is offered on a regular basis in partnership with other community organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
During the 2023-2024 fiscal year our programs reached more than 3500 adults and childeren in the sisseton area, including members of the sisseton wahpeton sioux tribe on the lake traverse indian reservation. This year's activities included three theater opportunities, a music composing academy for youth, monthly arts programs for the elderly living in residential centers, community concerts, book discussion and poetry reading, and public art displays including a summer long visual art exhibit and two outdoor gallery experiences that attracted tourists and community members alike.
$51,847 spent93% of program spendingProceeds from holiday harmonies concert donated to sisseton ministerial association food pantry. Scholarships awarded to sisseton high school seniors.
$3,740 spentof which $2,594 as grants7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $55,587.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $79k to $132k (+66%).
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.
100% of SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC’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
SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 94% · 2019 60% · 2020 53% · 2021 54% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — 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
SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC's revenue fell 62% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC: 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 SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC?
- SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,950 to it, the largest being Arts Midwest Incorporated ($130,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $206,950 in grants to SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC?
- Arts Midwest Incorporated is the largest funder on record, with $130,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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