Lake Region Arts Council
Fergus Falls, MN · EIN 41-1430764. Reported 182 grants totalling $1,069,836 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Lake Region Arts Council, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A26Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 55 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 77% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $4,000. Half of what it reported fell between $2,980 and $8,000; the smallest was $274 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kicks Band of Fargo Moorhead | Moorhead, MN | $65,714 | 11 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fargo-Moorhead Choral Artist | Moorhead, MN | $58,550 | 7 | 3 | 2023 |
| Art of the Lakes Association Inc | Battle Lake, MN | $53,290 | 7 | 3 | 2023 |
| Dlccc Inc | Detroit Lakes, MN | $50,450 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| Kaddatz Galleries | Fergus Falls, MN | $50,409 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mn State University Moorhead Percussion Studio | Moorhead, MN | $44,440 | 6 | 3 | 2023 |
| Henning Landmark Center | Henning, MN | $44,161 | 7 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fergus Falls Center for the Arts Inc | Fergus Falls, MN | $43,395 | 5 | 2 | 2023 |
| Central Square Inc | Glenwood, MN | $41,450 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cornerstone | Frazee, MN | $40,160 | 4 | 2 | 2023 |
| Perham Center for the Arts | Perham, MN | $28,411 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Central Lakes Symphony Orchestra | Alexandria, MN | $27,381 | 6 | 3 | 2023 |
| Theatre L Homme Dieu | Alexandria, MN | $26,900 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ulen-Hitterdal School | Ulen, MN | $25,493 | 6 | 3 | 2023 |
| Gooseberry Park Players Inc | Moorhead, MN | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County | Moorhead, MN | $23,598 | 8 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pelican Rapids Multicultural Committee | Pelican Rapids, MN | $23,414 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fergus Falls Public Library | Fergus Falls, MN | $23,260 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rourke Art Gallery Museum | Moorhead, MN | $20,990 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| City of Pelican Rapids | Pelican Rapids, MN | $20,750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Prairie Renaissance Cultural Allian Ce | Morris, MN | $20,600 | 6 | 3 | 2023 |
| Three Rivers Arts Council | Wahpeton, ND | $20,475 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Dancebarn Collective | Battle Lake, MN | $19,520 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lakes Chamber Music Society | Alexandria, MN | $18,946 | 6 | 3 | 2023 |
| Act Up Theatre | Moorhead, MN | $18,413 | 6 | 3 | 2023 |
| Phelps Mill Country | Battle Lake, MN | $18,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Evansville Arts Coalition | Evansville, MN | $17,950 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| Prairie Wind Players of Grant County Inc | Barrett, MN | $17,170 | 3 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grant Co Prairie Wind Players | Barrett, MN | $14,980 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Red Willow Arts Coalition | Alexandria, MN | $14,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Eshara | Moorhead, MN | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pelican Rapids High School | Pelican Rapids, MN | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fergus Area College Foundation | Fergus Falls, MN | $12,350 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New York Mills Arts Retreat | New York Mls, MN | $12,110 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alexandria Area Arts Association Inc | Alexandria, MN | $11,920 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Otter Cove Childrens Museum LLC | Fergus Falls, MN | $11,130 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Umn Morris Prairie Gate Literary | Morris, MN | $10,940 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Moorhead Pars and Recreation | Moorhead, MN | $10,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Terrace Mill Foundation Inc | Terrace, MN | $9,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New York Mills Public Library | New York Mills, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alexandria Art Guild | Alexandria, MN | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Browns Valley School Dist 801 | Browns Valley, MN | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Alexandria Community Education | Alexandria, MN | $5,801 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Project 412 | Detroit Lakes, MN | $5,009 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lakes Area Community Center | Battle Lake, MN | $3,708 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fergus Falls Band Boosters | Fergus Falls, MN | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Vergas | Vergas, MN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Underwood Community Education | Underwood, MN | $2,450 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Moorhead Area Public Schools | Moorhead, MN | $2,070 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Prairie Woodcarvers | Alexandria, MN | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Douglas Co Library | Alexandria, MN | $1,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Immanuel Church Building Association | Barrett, MN | $1,114 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Prairie Woodcarvers | Alexandria, MN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Thorson Memorial Library | Elbow Lake, MN | $990 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nordic Culture Clubs | Moorhead, MN | $274 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
36 of 55 (65%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Fergus Falls Center for Arts
Presnet two, week long outreach programs with international performing artists, off the season, culminating in community concerts - Mn State University School of Art
Coordinate the design creation of public art murals led assisted by diverse community artists working with the clients children and staff at Churches United for Homeless - Kaddatz Galleries Ltd
Expand sponsor Kaddatzs Art Reach program serving underserved populations in our community with classes a public exhibit - Central Square
Present a series of diverse performances to our community as we return to live programming after two year absence from live performances due to COVID - Fargo Moorhead Choral Artists
Produce Mozart Minnesota, a choral instrumental concert featuring music by Mozart several emerging Minnesota based composers - Dlccc
Purchase install a poriton of new seats in the balcony of the Holmes Theatre
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 of 55 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 58 | $387,766 | $4,500 |
| 2022 | 58 | $305,293 | $4,000 |
| 2023 | 66 | $376,777 | $4,350 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
98% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $4,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Minnesota.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Lake Region Arts Council's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 66 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 133 South Mill Street, Fergus Falls, MN, 56537.
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