Arts & Culture Funding in Minnesota
Total granted
$740.8M
Funders
476
Grants
7,548
Organizations funded
802
Minnesota · Grantmakers
Foundations That Fund Arts & Culture in Minnesota
Imperigo has identified 476 funders that made 7,548 grants totaling $740.8M to 802 arts & culture organizations in Minnesota, with a median grant of $15K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.
Top Funders — page 1 of 4
$83.8M
$130.2M
$43.3M
$11.4M
$5.6M
$5.0M
$3.0M
$2.8M
$2.5M
$1.7M
12.
Communitygiving
$5.2M
$1.6M
$1.4M
$8.4M
17.
Hennepin Arts
$1.0M
$2.5M
$720K
$675K
$609K
$590K
$8.4M
$563K
$686K
Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to arts & culture work in Minnesota, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 14 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.
Other Causes Funded in Minnesota
About This Data
A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering arts & culture work, with an address in Minnesota. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.
Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable arts & culture funding in Minnesota, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.
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