Minnesota · Nonprofit
Sod House Theater
Sod House Theater (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,542 to it, the largest being MARDAG FOUNDATION ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $206k
- Net assets
- $103k
What Sod House Theater does
Mission
Sod House Theater brings people together through playful collaboration to create immersive, community-engaged theater and space for public dialog and action.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Sod House Theater created and performed 3 productions in 2024. The first production was entitled, FIVE MORE MINUTES, a play about an elderly couple who are facing dementia and challenges of the caregivers who help them. Five More Minutes addresses a primary need for awareness around Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementia, and accessible spaces to learn about resources and connect to further support if needed. Five More Minutes was developed with support from the Minnesota State Arts Board and Metro Regional Arts Council. The show was performed at THE HIVE in St. Paul, MN and at the YES! House in Granite Falls, The Mercantile in Madison and The Little Theater in New London. The second production was TABLE, a show that centered around a hilarious and eccentric all female catering company that sang, danced and served a 4-course meal. Sod House joined forces with chefs from all across the state to curate meals that were served by our troupe of comedic performers. TABLE was performed in New Brighton, New London, Princeton and Minneapolis. The third and final production, ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, was performed last July on the banks of the Mississippi in beautiful St. Cloud Minnesota. The…
$129,502 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $129,502.
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 2019 to 2020, from $47k to $194k (+311%).
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: 2018 74% · 2019 28% · 2020 60% · 2021 37% · 2022 18% · 2023 14% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of Sod House Theater’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Claudine Arndt
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $30k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Sod House Theater’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
Sod House Theater leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 Sod House Theater.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 93% · 2020 100% · 2021 58% · 2022 43% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Sod House Theater's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k 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
Sod House Theater's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding Sod House Theater receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Sod House Theater
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sod House Theater: 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 Sod House Theater?
- Sod House Theater (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,542 to it, the largest being MARDAG FOUNDATION ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sod House Theater have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $205,542 in grants to Sod House Theater, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sod House Theater?
- MARDAG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sod House Theater 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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