Minnesota · Nonprofit
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $369,106 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($356,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Southwest Minnesotalocal
- Harlan Boss Foundation for the Artsportfolio match
- Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 87% · 2018 84% · 2019 86% · 2020 87% · 2021 85% · 2022 88% · 2023 87% · 2024 89% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $89k.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL’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
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Southwest MinnesotalocalMN · funds 16 organizations near you
- Harlan Boss Foundation for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William Boss Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rosemary and David Good Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Five Wings Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Minnesota Arts Boardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Helgeson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ea Michelson Philanthropy Co Family Philanthropy Advisorsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Juanita E Schmeeckle Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Humanities Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL?
- SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $369,106 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($356,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $369,106 in grants to SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $356,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL 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.
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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing