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PLAINS ART MUSEUM

EIN 41-1260780 FARGO, ND

Largest nonprofits in North Dakota

Revenue 2024
$4,582,321
Expenses 2024
$3,283,517

Program services were 69.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A510
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 2338

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

THE PLAINS ART MUSEUM BRINGS PEOPLE AND ART TOGETHER. AS A PUBLIC INSTITUTION WE CELEBRATE THE FINEST OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT AND INSPIRE AND ENGAGE DIVERSE AUDIENCES IN THE CREATION, EXHIBITION, COLLECTION, AND PRESERVATION OF ART.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROMOTE AND FOSTER A KNOWLEDGE OF ART BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE EDUCATION IN THE ARTS.

  • IN FISCAL YEAR 2025, PLAINS ART MUSEUM ENGAGED OVER 37,351 PEOPLE THROUGH OUR MISSION OF CONNECTING ART, ARTISTS AND AUDIENCES TO FOSTER CREATIVE, RESILIENT, AND WELCOMING COMMUNITIES. THROUGH OUR PLAINSART4ALL INITIATIVE, THE MUSEUM OFFERED FREE GENERAL ADMISSION TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO ALMOST 15 TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS. IN ADDITION, THE MUSEUM FACILITATED 664 EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES FOR ALL AGES - TOURS, WORKSHOPS, TALKS, AND MORE; AND FACILITATED NEW COMMUNITY PROGRAMS, OUTREACH EVENTS, AND OUR EXEMPLARY BUZZ LAB TEEN INTERNSHIP AND THE NORTHERN PLAINS SUMMER ART INSTITUTE PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $490,991 · Revenue $104,794

  • IN HOUSE EDUCATION PROGRAMS INCLUDE TEACHING ARTISTS LED TOURS, LECTURES, ARTISTS TALKS, ARTIST RESIDENCIES, INTERNSHIPS AND ART CLASSES AND CAMPS FOR ALL AGES. OUTREACH PROGRAMS OFFER ART CLASSES AND ART EDUCATION EXPERIENCES TO RURAL NORTH DAKOTA AND MINNESOTA.

    Expenses $1,070,404 · Revenue $233,908

  • MUSEUM BUILDING OPERATIONS FOR STORAGE AND DISPLAY OF THE PERMANENT COLLECTOIN WHICH FOCUSES ON 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY AMERICAN ART, REGIONAL ART, AND WORK BY NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS.

    Expenses $708,235

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.

  • Jordan Horner

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bill Nielsen

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rick Morrow

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ty Hegland

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Scott Holdman

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hugo Sarmiento

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alicia Hauff

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Laura Morris

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Emily Brooks

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Suzanne Senske

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Simone Wai

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joan Justesen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Katrina Turman-Lang

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brian Hayer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christine Jaeger

    DIRECTOR (UNTIL FEB)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anna Johnson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ellen Moses

    DIRECTOR (FROM MAR)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Henze - Consultant

    INTERIM CEO

    Total calculated
    $5,171
    From this org
    $5,171
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Arleen McKay

    CONTROLLER

    Total calculated
    $44,771
    From this org
    $41,576
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,195
    Hours/week
    40
  • Nathan Kakela

    CONTROLLER

    Total calculated
    $46,726
    From this org
    $43,713
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,013
    Hours/week
    40
  • Erin Shapiro

    DIRECTOR/CEO

    Total calculated
    $143,403
    From this org
    $137,377
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,026
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,582,321
    Expenses
    $3,283,517
    Contributions
    $1,120,918
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,520,638
    Expenses
    $3,083,782
    Contributions
    $1,184,678
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,453,214
    Expenses
    $2,906,781
    Contributions
    $2,430,906
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,388,053
    Expenses
    $2,459,774
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,829,201
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,114,280
    Expenses
    $2,236,354
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,649,612
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,092,883
    Expenses
    $2,215,712
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,718,773
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,826,528
    Expenses
    $2,124,777
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,760,124
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,994,046
    Expenses
    $2,153,173
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,813,719

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.