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
Midwest Climate & Energy
to educate, engage, and empower faith communities, especially in environmental justice communities, to advocate for clean, equitable transportation public policies in Illinois and build awareness of federal and state clean energy incentives
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$25,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support the Mothers of Gynecology campus tours
$5,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support the Saigu campaign
$300,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to advance pro-DEI narrative efforts through messaging, research, strategic communications, and engagement
$60,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Exposed Brick Theatre supports Black, indigenous, and people of color theater artists to create new works and tell their unique, authentic stories, producing work at spaces throughout the Twin Cities.
$90,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$200,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support - Exodus Financial Services works with financially excluded Minnesotans to advance economic justice through consumer lending, community organizing, and advocacy.
$70,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support to develop, test, and spread equitable small-dollar consumer lending model through a network of statewide nonprofits reaching financially extracted and excluded Minnesotans
$50,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for anti-payday loan program for accelerating economic mobility
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for the 2022 Distinguished Artist Award
$350,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$350,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support, and to connect state and federal decisionmakers and lift up stories from the Midwest
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Evergreen Collaborative works to advance an ambitious climate action agenda, combining policy development capacity with strategic communications to inform audiences.
$400,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to communicate the importance of clean energy and clean energy jobs in the Midwest
$75,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the preparation, release, and promotion of the annual Clean Jobs Midwest report
$75,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the preparation, release, and promotion of the Clean Jobs Midwest report
$305,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Enhancing Drought Resilience and Soil Health in Kenyan Smallholder Farming Systems through Regenerative Agroecological Farming Practices in Maize Cropping Systems
$100,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$200,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$100,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support an innovative housing pilot designed and led by those who have experienced homelessness
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to launch a campaign to educate Midwest leaders about nitrous oxide emissions and to build awareness of the threat posed by nitrous oxide emissions
$100,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for increased capacity support to provide organizations with technical assistance to submit state and federal level grants for climate and clean energy projects
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to promote electric grid transformation through enhanced equity, access, and inclusion
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to promote electric grid transformation through enhanced equity, access, and inclusion
$75,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to work in the Midwest to promote electric grid transformation that enhances equity, access, and inclusion
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Environmental Health Watch brings community members directly into addressing their own needs, helping them become local environmental health, and ultimately, climate champions.
$150,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to elevate climate solutions from the Midwest and to engage the federal policy makers on climate change, energy, and environmental challenges and solutions
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance science-based solutions for climate change, energy, and environmental challenges, particularly in the Midwest, in order to achieve a sustainable, resilient, and equitable world
$50,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to engage and assist Midwestern rural electric cooperatives and other utilities to develop and deploy electrification programs
$50,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to engage and assist Midwestern rural electric cooperatives to develop beneficial electrification programs
$250,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to research, develop, cast, and film for sales materials and final product of a multi-episode television series, featuring Sean Sherman, about indigenous culinary ingredients, culture, history, and their impact today
$75,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support - Engage Winona’s mission is to drive equitable civic action and social change by working to ensure that everyone has access, voice, and power in community planning, decision-making, and changemaking.
$160,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to multiply impact on systems and build community and citizen power through homegrown cultural features that build relationships and shift mental models, and for general operating support
$405,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support; and to engage in a financial assessment
$40,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - The Ely Folk School builds community, provides learning experiences and celebrates the wilderness, heritage, art, history, culture, and craft of the people in rural, northern Minnesota.
$500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to develop a direct pay program that is accessible and scalable to rural municipalities, Tribes, and nonprofits, and to complete six demonstration projects that provide technical assistance to leverage direct pay
$400,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support equitable building electrification in the Midwest and to provide comprehensive technical assistance to Justice40 Accelerator cohort organizations
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to provide comprehensive technical assistance to Justice40 Accelerator cohort organizations
$200,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support equitable building electrification in the Midwest
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to drive at-scale municipal fleet electrification and charging deployment in the Midwest, leveraging federal funding opportunities and ensuring effective implementation of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure and the EV-related IRA programs
$200,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to educate and engage with state and local policymakers to drive for more ambitious EV policies in Midwestern states
$200,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to create a project infrastructure that accelerates and supports the founding of local nonprofit newsrooms in the network and provides shared services to make these newsrooms sustainable
$100,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build power among students and families from underserved communities by providing tools via advocacy training, connections to decision-makers, and innovative communication strategies to dismantle inequities and foster inclusive policymaking
$100,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to convene organizations working on climate change to share information with an emphasis on racial and social equity
$340,000
2021
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Support to the scaling up of local agro-ecological food systems from Andean highland territories of the Cordillera Negra (Ancash-Peru)
$100,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$100,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$50,000
2020
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$150,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build organizational capacity and to expand operations of the Housing Justice Program at the East Side Freedom Library
$150,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to increase the capacity of the East Side Housing Justice program
$150,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - East Metro Strong advocates for affordable, climate -smart and -accessible transportation solutions in East St. Paul.
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to organize stakeholders in the east metro to prioritize a clean transportation system
$150,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists and culture bearers
$84,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$1,275,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to launch and sustain a Midwest Agriculture Conservation Network to increase participation in NRCS programs by small to medium-scale, underserved, sustainable and organic producers who have not historically been adequately reached and served
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Earth Charter Indiana is a youth-focused organization working to build a just, sustainable, and climate-safe future in Indiana, by increasing and accelerating civic and political action to address the climate crisis.
$50,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support grant writing for federal funding opportunities and the implementation of clean energy projects
$50,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - DSSO is a professional symphonic organization with annual programs that leverage the talents of its musicians and increase the audience for symphonic music in the Arrowhead region of Greater Minnesota.
$55,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$10,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to understand how federal funding and policy changes create ripple effects in Northeast Minnesota communities, and develop effective storytelling and advocacy efforts
$90,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support of a year-round main stage season, children's theatre series, second stage season, and an education program for youth and adults
$90,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$165,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for capital support to assist with costs associated with moving locations and with extensive damage to a failed stairway at a building owned by DAI
$80,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Dream of Wild Health is one of the lead organizers of the Indigenous Food Network and is leading the movement to reclaim Indigenous sovereignty through food.
$100,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Dream of Wild Health runs a 30-acre farm, native fruit orchard, and pollinator meadow and is leading an inter-tribal vision toward Indigenous food sovereignty.
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$25,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for the 2023 Distinguished Artist Award
$225,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$335,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$200,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - DoPT is an artist-led organization that works to develop creative strategies for increased community connection, civic engagement, and equitable participation in rural places in Minnesota and across the country.
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for capital support to renovate a building in Granite Falls for artists and community use
$250,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$55,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to consult transportation GHG modeling for three Midwest states --Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois-- and share block-level data with civic organizations
$140,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support – Dakota Wicohan preserves and rejuvenates traditional Dakota culture, concentrating on language.
$140,000
2021
Arts & Culture
to support the expansion of the Tawokaga (Making Beautiful Things) art program to support more Indigenous artists in our community
$500,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the Lake Street Alignment Process
$100,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
to support the work of the Cultural Wellness Center in the African American community in honor of George Floyd
$60,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Crow River Players dba Little Theater Auditorium is an artist-led center for art experimentation, a creative home for the community, and a host for artists in rural southwestern Minnesota.
$90,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$500,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$225,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$20,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for a travel exchange pilot program for Minnesota artists