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ARTS MIDWEST

EIN 41-1000424 MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Revenue 2024
$7,118,776
Expenses 2024
$9,565,787

Program services were 81.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A120
Classification
1000
Street
3033 EXCELSIOR BLVD STE 380

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the Midwest by advancing creativity.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To build unprecedented opportunity across the Midwest by advancing creativity.

  • Regional Prosperity: Arts Midwest's Regional Prosperity programs support artists, arts leaders, organizations, and communities throughout the Midwest. Efforts include giving grants for arts events and activities; supporting artist tours; offering tools and resources for arts organizations and administrators; and providing services to our member State Arts Agencies.

    Expenses $3,911,531 · Grants $2,776,720 · Revenue $368,480

  • National Initiatives: Arts Midwest partners with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and our five sister U.S. Regional Arts Organizations (USRAOs) to support the national arts sector. We manage two programs on behalf of the NEA: Shakespeare in American Communities and the NEA Big Read. Through these programs, we issue grants to organizations to connect young people with the work of William Shakespeare and conduct community reading programs - bringing high-quality arts activities to communities across the nation. We also work closely with the other five USRAOs to design and implement programs that collectively reach organizations across the United States.

    Expenses $3,458,891 · Grants $2,795,062

  • Celebrating Midwestern Creativity: Arts Midwest seeks to amplify Midwestern creativity. To that end, we honor, celebrate, and reward innovative artists and leaders in our region through a series of award programs. These awards recognize folk arts practitioners and culture bearers, disabled visual artists, and entrepreneurial arts administrators. We are also home to a storytelling initiative that amplifies Midwestern creativity. We commission and publish stories that go beyond traditional arts coverage and celebrate creativity in all its forms.

    Expenses $437,431 · Grants $72,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Brian Tiemann

    Chair (until 6/6/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Gregory Volan

    Treasurer/Secretary (thru 11/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Megan LangleyTreasurer

    Secretary (as of 11/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Andre Perry Vice Chair thru

    6/6/2025)/Chair (as of 6/6/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Ailithir McGill

    Vice Chair (as of 6/6/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jane Rasmussen

    Member-at-Large (thru 11/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Dionne Custer Edwards

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jasmin De Forrest

    Director (thru 11/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Craig Howe

    Director (thru 11/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mia Khimm

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • George Tzougros

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rishard Allen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cari Hatcher

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Christine Her

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Miah Michaelson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joe Williams

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Christina Woods

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Amy Spadafore

    Director (as of 11/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Emily Tau

    Director (as of 11/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Samantha Zhang

    Director (as of 11/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Zach Van Harris Jr

    Director (as of 11/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Torrie Allen

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $279,619
    From this org
    $233,778
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $45,841
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $221,553
    Bonus
    $12,225
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,169
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,416
    Filer's total
    $282,363

  • Katelyn Shehu

    Chief Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $175,407
    From this org
    $146,031
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,376
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,931
    Bonus
    $4,100
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,218
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,851
    Filer's total
    $177,100

  • Anne Romens

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $160,440
    From this org
    $125,449
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,991
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $121,639
    Bonus
    $3,810
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,754
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,788
    Filer's total
    $161,991

  • Emily Anderson

    Chief Administrative Officer

    Total calculated
    $121,732
    From this org
    $100,925
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,807
    Hours/week
    45

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,118,776
    Expenses
    $9,565,787
    Contributions
    $6,293,734
    Grants paid
    $5,643,782
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,338,709
    Expenses
    $6,473,618
    Contributions
    $6,562,333
    Grants paid
    $2,650,612
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,028,042
    Expenses
    $9,421,779
    Contributions
    $8,862,333
    Grants paid
    $5,078,041

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,597,060
    Expenses
    $8,599,951
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,049,827

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,373,717
    Expenses
    $9,496,593
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,037,307

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,204,276
    Expenses
    $7,578,984
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,884,327

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,100,791
    Expenses
    $6,807,906
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,786,635

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,068,639
    Expenses
    $6,778,704
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,221,785

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,734,089
    Expenses
    $6,277,378
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,900,682

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,024,742
    Expenses
    $6,586,275
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,268,015

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,662,081
    Expenses
    $6,653,416
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,962,484

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,579,464
    Expenses
    $6,650,959
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,955,254

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $6,428,922
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,014,068

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.