Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council
Waseca, MN · EIN 41-1761756. Reported 137 grants totalling $1,111,380 to 62 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 Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 62 distinct organizations, with 4% 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. 80% 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 $8,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,000 and $9,000; the smallest was $5,950 and the largest $13,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mn State Univ Music Perf Series | Mankato, MN | $41,000 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mankato Are Community Education | Mankato, MN | $33,000 | 4 | 2 | 2023 |
| Arts Center of Saint Peter Inc | Saint Peter, MN | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Dance Conservatory of Southern Minnesota | Mankato, MN | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Davori Productions Co | Mankato, MN | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fairmont Opera House Inc | Fairmont, MN | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Grand Center for Arts & Culture Inc | New Ulm, MN | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mankato Ballet Company | Mankato, MN | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Martin County Preservation Association | Fairmont, MN | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Minnesota Makers & Artists Guild | Mankato, MN | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| South Central Service Cooperative | North Mankato, MN | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| State Street Theater Co | New Ulm, MN | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Waseca Arts Council Inc | Waseca, MN | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Project G E M | Pemberton, MN | $27,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mankato Youth Symphony Orchestra | Mankato, MN | $24,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bethany Lutheran College & Seminary Inc | Mankato, MN | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Blue Earth Valley Concert Assn | Winnebago, MN | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Greater Mankato Growth Inc Foundation | Mankato, MN | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| La Grande Bande | Gaylord, MN | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mankato Figure Skating Club | Mankato, MN | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Merely Players Community Theatre Inc | Mankato, MN | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Minnesota Over 60 Band of Gaylord Minnesota | Saint Peter, MN | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Minnesota Valley Chorale | Mankato, MN | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Musicorum | Mankato, MN | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New Ulm Suzuki School of Music | New Ulm, MN | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| T-Bird Community Arts | Gibbon, MN | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Govenaires Performing Arts Association | Mankato, MN | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Twin Rivers Council for the Arts | Mankato, MN | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Minnesota Music Coalition | Saint Paul, MN | $21,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New Ulm Figure Skating Club | New Ulm, MN | $21,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Dalekoarts | Saint Paul, MN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Imagine Martin | Fairmont, MN | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mankato Area Arts Council | Mankato, MN | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Uniting Cultures Multicultural Fie | St James, MN | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mankato Suzuki School of Music Inc | Mankato, MN | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mankato Symphony Orchestra Association Inc | Mankato, MN | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc | Mankato, MN | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| 4UNITY Inc | Dunnell, MN | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mankato Children's Chorus | Mankato, MN | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Minnesota New Country School | Henderson, MN | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rock Bend Folk Festival | Saint Peter, MN | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Watonwan County Historical Society | Madelia, MN | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| City of Green Ilse | Green Isle, MN | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research | Saint Paul, MN | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Old Town Collaborative | Mankato, MN | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southern Minnesota Independent Living Enterprises & Services | Mankato, MN | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Waterville Area Arts and Rec | Waterville, MN | $8,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Project 1590 Inc | Fairmont, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Waseca-Leseuer Regional Library | Waseca, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of New Prague | New Prague, MN | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arlington Chamber of Commerce | Arlington, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bavarian Blast | New Ulm, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Museum of Southern Minnesota | Mankato, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Lake Crystal | Lake Crystal, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of St Peter | St Peter, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gaylord Area Chamber of Commerce | Gaylord, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Foundations Saint Peter | St Peter, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Saint Peter Good Neighbor Diversity Council | Saint Peter, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Clair Public School Inst Mus | St Clair, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tri-City United Comm Education | Montgomery, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Waseca County Historical Society | Waseca, MN | $5,980 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mankato Youth Place Inc | Mankato, MN | $5,950 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
42 of 62 (68%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 of 62 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 | 48 | $430,930 | $8,000 |
| 2022 | 36 | $252,000 | $7,000 |
| 2023 | 53 | $428,450 | $9,000 |
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
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $8,000 -- 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 Prairie Lakes Regional 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 95 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 105 22ND Ave Ne Rm/Ste a, Waseca, MN, 56093.
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