Our grants database features organizations from the past five years. It is updated on a quarterly basis about a month after board approval.
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$200,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support and programmatic support for strategic organizational and leadership succession transition planning
$100,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$15,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support - The AAPI Civic Engagement Fund plays a crucial role in supporting local and state-based Asian-American and Pacific Islander organizations to enhance civic participation and build a multiracial democracy.
$250,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build on civic engagement momentum among Asian communities across Minnesota and increase strategic capacity and partnerships
$50,000
2021
Arts & Culture
to uplift Black artists working toward better Black futures
$225,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build upon 2020 civic engagement momentum, expand relationships with elected leaders and decision makers, and organize with partners towards a multi-racial democracy
$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support education, engagement, and activation on climate action in the Midwest
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$85,000
2025
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
for a learning and documentary project on West African Farmer Organizations’ experiences and expectations for agro-ecological transformation
$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Clean and Equitable Transportation Campaign coalition
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for the Illinois Clean and Equitable Transportation Campaign
$400,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$500,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support operational and organizational development
$600,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and to strengthen capacity to advocate for, acquire, rehabilitate, and stabilize affordable housing
$400,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$250,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$250,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$390,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and to build out organizational infrastructure
$300,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$300,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$200,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$200,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support - AEDS builds economic, community, and social wealth in African immigrant communities in Minnesota by providing culturally grounded support and services to businesses, leaders, and collaborations.
$40,000
2023
Arts & Culture
to plan and pilot programming and build new facility for increased artistic opportunities for African immigrant and next generation artists so they can catalyze the leadership, power, and creativity of artists and culture bearers
$100,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to redevelop a vacant commercial property in the Little Africa Cultural District to include a Halal meat market and grocery, retail space and community spaces, and AEDS offices
$200,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$100,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support - Agape Child Development Center provides culturally relevant services focused on healing individuals, restoring families, empowering people, and strengthening communities.
$50,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$50,000
2021
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Enhancing Agroecology Friendly Policies and Practices in Tanzania
$116,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Agroecological Videos Bolivia
$250,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and to build regional capacity to scale and prototype hemp housing and expand the indigenous hemp building supply chain
$450,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$250,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to support both urban and reservation-based Indigenous nonpartisan civic engagement
$128,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Promoting healthy soil ecosystems through agroecology for climate adaptation and mitigation in Africa
$25,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
to support African Agroecological Entrepreneurship and Territorial Markets Convening on May 24-26, 2022 in Kampala, Uganda
$920,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$500,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and support for the Blue Line Coalition
$933,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for a residency consortium fellowship program for McKnight Artist Fellows
$22,000
2023
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Alliance magazine EDI audit
$500,000
2025
Other Grantmaking
to support a year-long project to help lift courage above politics in time for the 250th anniversary of the U.S. founding in July 2026
$1,000,000
2025
Other Grantmaking
to organize, connect, and mobilize a diverse team of spiritual leaders
$300,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support powerful organizations rooted in, and accountable to, multi-racial and multi-class bases within states
$900,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to advance racial equity and justice by shifting power and resources to Black, Indigenous, and Latino/a/x people living in low wealth, under-resourced communities
$625,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for the McKnight Artist Fellowships for composers and for a visiting composer artists residency program
$350,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$150,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support, and to support an arts and culture program
$100,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support native organizations working collectively to secure building capital dollars from state resources
$160,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$38,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to establish a community of practice to inform and inspire excellence in the design of affordable housing
$70,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build neighborhoods of racial equity, environmental justice, and community health in areas affected in the unrest through community advocacy of a multi-sector change agenda; to support and reimagine the Affordable Housing Design Awards program
$300,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to provide support for the Minnesota Compass project; and to maintain the neighborhood profile approach, including small area data profiles and a custom mapping tool, for Minneapolis-St. Paul neighborhoods and statewide regions
$90,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to conduct, analyze, report, communicate, and engage policy makers, advocates, funders, program staff, and our communities in the Minnesota Homeless Study and the Tribal/Reservation Homeless Study
$335,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to expand equitable outcomes and create opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and people of color leaders by sustaining and expanding a strong network of civic and public policy leadership programs
$415,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the Community Equity Program
$255,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
to support the Minnesota Compass Project to maintain data profiles and a custom mapping tool for Minneapolis-St. Paul neighborhoods and statewide regions
$160,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and capacity building
$100,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$80,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Arcata Press is a literary organization with an overarching goal to bring untold stories into the public realm, and to connect communities across cultures and generations through story.
$80,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$75,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and capacity building support; and for capacity to convene and moderate discussions among the Twin Cities dance community following the abrupt closure of the Cowles Center and Goodale Theater
$90,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$270,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists and culture bearers
$180,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$270,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support - Art of the Rural works to support non-urban artists, culture-bearers, cultural organizations, and communities in rural places across the country from its home base in Winona, MN
$270,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$50,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Artistry is a suburban hub for theater and visual artists and a driver for community development in the city of Bloomington.
$50,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$30,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$80,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$80,000
2025
Other Grantmaking
to support storytelling through the Creativity News Desk, including Minnesota stories and coverage
$100,000
2024
Arts & Culture
to delay the Go Dark Date for The Cowles Center for Dance and Performing Arts beyond January 31, 2024 and through March 2024
$160,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Artspace Projects is a real estate developer that creates, fosters, and preserves affordable live/work space for artists and arts organizations.
$160,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$150,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the Little Mekong Market Cooperative and incubator, which will create up to 50 microbusinesses and anchor wealth building in Little Mekong by helping to transfer an asset to BIPOC business owners
$300,000
2023
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
for AV4Resilience: African vegetables for enhanced functional diversity and resilience of production systems in Burkina Faso through women and youth empowerment
$370,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Agroecological Youth in Action for Peru
$96,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Seedlings for Change
$75,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the development and activation of a paper for funders on Baby Bonds
$100,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Spread Agroecology: Responding to New Challenges
$500,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for working capital to launch Arise Community Credit Union as the state’s first Black-led community credit union and provide a pathway to stabilize and build community wealth
$100,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the launch of Village Financial Credit Union
$240,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Support and strengthen the research networks of producers to improve their resilience to climate change in Burkina Faso and Mali
$225,000
2023
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
for Enhancing Agroecological Intensification and Sustainable Natural Resource Management in Mali and Burkina Faso
$75,000
2023
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
to support ownership by farmers of the association AMSP-BURKINA of the FRN approach for agroecological transition and the transformations of their food systems
$100,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to address increasing legal challenges and threats faced by nonprofit organizations working toward racial equity and justice
$450,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support in recognition of ABFE’s 50th anniversary and continued impact on the field
$100,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
in recognition of ABFE's 50th anniversary campaign, general support to strengthen Black-led social change organizations to build political and economic power
$450,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity in Greater Minnesota counties to successfully apply for state and federal grants