Minnesota · Nonprofit
UPSTREAM ARTS INC
UPSTREAM ARTS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,710,880 to it, the largest being EUGENE J EDER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($271,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $372k
What Upstream Arts Inc does
Mission
Upstream arts uses the power of the creative arts to activate and amplify the voice and choice of individuals with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Schools: in 25-26, we carried out semester or year-long school programs in special education/ inclusive classrooms, reaching students ages birth to 21 with a range of disabilities in minnesota. In our school programs, teams of local professional artists lead multidisciplinary arts activities in theatre, dance, music, poetry and visual arts designed to build social/emotional, healthy relationships and communication skills. We work in school districts around the metro area, with our biggest presence in minneapolis public schools.
$8,741 spent$11,016 earned by the program3% of program spendingAdult: in 25-26, we carried out adult programs including a focus on art of relationships and art of prevention programming, our innovative sex education and healthy relationships programming that works to prevent and address the sexual violence epidemic in the disability community. In our programs for adults, teams of local professional artists lead multidisciplinary arts activities in theatre, dance, music, poetry and visual arts designed to develop soft skills specific to self advocacy, the workplace, healthy relationships, and meaningful community participation for individuals with disabilities ages 21-75+. These programs also benefit support staff in disability organizations and parents/ guardians/ support staff, who receive training on creative strategies to support the voice and choice of individuals with disabilities. Some of our adult programs are run in collaboration with adult day programsorganizations where adults with disabilities receive social and vocational services. We also offer open enrollment self advocacy classes for adults with disabilities where the arts offer a way to nurture self-expression and self-determination; adults with disabilities can use their mn…
$215,274 spent$20,014 earned by the program80% of program spendingCommunity/out of state/milwaukee: upstream arts carries out community programs with parks and recreation, libraries, churches and other community organizations. We also do touring community programming and training outside of the state of minnesota. We have an ongoing presence in milwaukee, wi, where we carry out school, adult and community programming as well as professional development annually. We carry out regular programming with milwaukee public schools, and harry & rose samson family jewish community center. We worked at milwaukee jewish community center with their adult chaverim group, and with their new adult day program. We also carried out residencies in milwaukee public schools special education classrooms, and offered a robust professional development training series for milwaukee public schools special education educators.
$29,771 spent$13,000 earned by the program11% of program spendingArtist training: because we believe that artists are the catalysts of social change, each year we invest in training our roster of 30+ teaching artists who teach our programs. We provide trainings on upstream arts' approach to accessible arts-infused instruction for individuals with disabilities, and bring in external trainers on disability, arts or education related topics.
$14,178 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $267,964.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $387k to $605k (+57%).
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 30% · 2019 31% · 2020 27% · 2021 46% · 2022 48% · 2023 24% · 2024 25% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of UPSTREAM ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 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.
Chief executive
Julie Guidry
Executive director
Board chair
Steve Anderson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $110k → $315k.
10 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 UPSTREAM ARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
UPSTREAM ARTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 UPSTREAM ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 33% · 2019 25% · 2020 21% · 2021 22% · 2022 25% · 2023 24% — 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
63% of UPSTREAM ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
UPSTREAM ARTS INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $386k 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
UPSTREAM ARTS INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UPSTREAM ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $365k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$365k
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 UPSTREAM ARTS INC
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UPSTREAM ARTS 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 UPSTREAM ARTS INC?
- UPSTREAM ARTS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,710,880 to it, the largest being EUGENE J EDER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($271,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPSTREAM ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $1,710,880 in grants to UPSTREAM ARTS INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPSTREAM ARTS INC?
- EUGENE J EDER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $271,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPSTREAM ARTS INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 36 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