Minnesota · Nonprofit
The Arts Partnership
The Arts Partnership (Minnesota) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,031,084 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($3,412,500). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $40M
What The Arts Partnership does
Mission
The Arts Partnership is organized for the benefit of and to carry out the purposes of ordway center for the performing arts (the ordway); the saint paul chamber orchestra society; the minnesota opera; and the schubert club. The Arts Partnership is a strategic alliance of four performing arts organizations that ensures equitable sharing and effective care of the ordway center facility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Arts Partnership concluded active fundraising for the All 4 ONE Campaign, which began in tax year 2018 to strengthen the long-term stability of its four partner organizations. The campaign supported organizational stability and recovery, facility maintenance, technology upgrades, and long-term sustainability. The collaborative framework established through the campaign enabled the four partner organizations to align priorities and implement shared operational initiatives. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, The Arts Partnership distributed $4,495,272 in campaign funds to support the partner organizations.
$4,495,272 spentof which $4,495,272 as grants66% of program spendingOne of The Arts Partnership's primary programs is to provide financial support to Partner Organizations that use the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. Through its annual fund and endowment draw, The Arts Partnership provides grants to supported organizations to help offset direct expenses associated with their use of Ordway facilities, including rent and related occupancy costs. These grants enable the supported organizations to deliver creative, accessible, and financially sustainable performing arts programming for the community.
$2,048,226 spentof which $2,048,226 as grants30% of program spendingThe Arts Partnership presented and supported ancillary programming in collaboration with its four supported organizations - the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, Schubert Club, and the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. These activities were designed to advance The Arts Partnership's mission by increasing public awareness of its role as a collaborative steward of the Ordway facility and by expanding access to educational and cultural experiences for the broader community.
$147,560 spent2% of program spendingThrough a grant received from the Miami Foundation, The Arts Partnership supports Minnesota Artists' use of the Concert Hall at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts by funding direct expenses of costs incurred by these groups to use the Concert Hall.
$68,786 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,759,844.
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 2020 to 2021, from $31M to $40M (+27%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 15% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of The Arts Partnership’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $142k → $3.0M.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.9M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation); $5.0M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest The Wurtele Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money The Arts Partnership raised.
From the IRS filings of The Arts Partnership’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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
The Arts Partnership leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 86% · 2019 28% · 2020 29% · 2021 36% · 2022 65% · 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of The Arts Partnership's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
95% of The Arts Partnership's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
The Arts Partnership holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Arts Partnership
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Ordway Center for the Performing Arts · exempt
- The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra · exempt
- The Schubert Club · exempt
- The Minnesota Opera · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Arts Partnership: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Arts Partnership?
- The Arts Partnership (Minnesota) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,031,084 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($3,412,500). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Arts Partnership have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $9,031,084 in grants to The Arts Partnership, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Arts Partnership?
- Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,412,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Arts Partnership 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 39 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