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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$2,000,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to serve as a grantmaker, a technical assistance resource, and a liaison to funders and policy decision makers for Midwest regenerative agriculture and Justice 40 Equity Communities
$718,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build the capacity of diverse Midwest food and farm organizations to administer large federal grants and advance regenerative agriculture through a newly created fund by the Rural Climate Partnership and Regenerative Agriculture Foundation; re-granting
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build the capacity of Midwest organizations, and in particular organizations of color, to submit successful federal grant proposals that will reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions
$182,706
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support community engagement and technical assistance around a standardized energy equity framework
$180,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists and culture bearers
$120,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$325,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$200,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for matching dollars for a US Department of Energy-funded project to deliver energy efficiency, health, and safety upgrades to the Cass Lake-Bena School District in Minnesota
$50,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to maintain staff capacity
$1,500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to provide technical assistance to cities, counties, and towns in Greater Minnesota applying for federal and state funding and deploying climate and clean energy projects
$10,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for capacity building as necessary to pursue federal climate opportunities
$75,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance clean energy policies in Midwest states by providing technical assistance and leveraging city engagement
$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance clean energy policies in Midwest states by providing technical assistance and leveraging city engagement
$150,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance clean energy policies in Midwest states by providing technical assistance and leveraging city engagement
$100,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to engage Minnesota-based elected officials and consult with Minnesota Guaranteed Income coalition members
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$450,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$200,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$200,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$150,000
2025
Other Grantmaking
to launch the Local Legal Initiative in Minnesota to provide pro bono legal services for Minnesota journalists and newsrooms
$50,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
contribution of the Farmer Research Network to resilient food systems through agro ecological intensification in Singida
$350,000
2025
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Secure and sustainable pastoralism as a bold agroecological practice for climate-resilient livelihoods and sustainable food systems in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, West Africa
$300,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build ROC-MN’s capacity to organize and advocate for high quality work and a just and dignified food-service industry in the Twin Cities Metro
$250,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$150,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$4,000,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance equitable electrification in the Midwest through place-based demonstration projects and policy development
$100,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for the 2024 Distinguished Artist Award
$70,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$355,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance economic development in priority coal-affected communities in the Midwest
$380,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to create economic opportunity in communities affected by the changing coal economy in the Midwest
$100,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to provide technical assistance on transportation and energy decarbonization in the Midwest
$50,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support a cost-effective and equitable transition from coal-fired generation in the Midwest
$50,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to accelerate co-operative utilities’ coal plant retirements and expand clean energy investment in the Midwest
$500,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$220,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$350,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$25,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for the Executive Director Transition and Mentoring Project
$100,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$140,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and capital support
$150,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$50,000
2025
Other Grantmaking
to provide critical support to community members needing support with housing assistance, food assistance, and rent/mortgage assistance
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity for Sabathani’s Community Energy Project
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity for the Community Energy Project
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity for the community district energy project
$550,000
2026
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$600,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support and to support expansion of Sahan Journal's climate beat, especially at the intersections of climate and racial justice
$150,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to expand economic opportunity and stability for low-income residents of Saint Paul’s East Side
$250,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the MN Forward/Philanthropy Forward Project Pooled Fund grantmaking
$150,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support, build, and scale community wealth building initiatives
$75,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the Eastside Funders Group
$1,000,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build capacity for the City of Saint Paul's Office of Financial Empowerment community wealth-building and economic mobility strategies
$150,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the East Side Funders Group
$100,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
to build the Philando Castile Community Peace Garden to scale, which was founded by community members who placed art and flowers in the space following Philando's death by a police officer in 2016
$120,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2023
Arts & Culture
to support the Doc U program
$60,000
2021
Arts & Culture
to support Doc U, a program where emergent media artists from underserved communities learn how to craft a story, use a camera, edit and then share a completed documentary film short that is screened to a public audience and broadcast on SPNN channels
$100,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$75,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$250,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
to support the continued seeding of the field of equitable evaluation in the US philanthropic ecosystem as it transitions from emerging to sustaining and maintaining
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for program support
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for program support
$40,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$500,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$600,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$15,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support in recognition of Seward Redesign’s participation in GroundBreak coalition work groups
$1,000,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the redevelopment of the Coliseum Building in Minneapolis as a community hub for black business and entrepreneurship
$1,100,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build capacity and increase access to capital
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$50,000
2026
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
for general operating support
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to organize a cohort of landowners as “climate land leaders” who will take bold steps to advance climate solutions through land-use change, support BIPOC land ownership, and support State and Federal climate policies that revitalize rural communities
$50,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the 2025 Funder-Practitioner Lab to connect practitioners across the pro-democracy space to cross-field learning opportunities
$130,000
2023
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
AE Revolving Loan Fund and AE Community of Practice - SHONA AE Innovation Fund
$600,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to decarbonize the power, transportation, and building sectors in Minnesota, and realize an equitable clean energy future
$600,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to decarbonize the power, transportation, and building sectors in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, to realize an equitable clean energy future; guided by principles of democratic organizing and racial justice
$600,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to replace fossil fuels with clean energy as part of a broad and powerful climate justice movement
$50,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$70,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and to support 20th Anniversary activities
$50,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to accelerate vehicle electrification for all Wisconsinites
$75,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to unify Wisconsin utilities and other stakeholders in a market transformation strategy that accelerates electric vehicle adoption by increasing consumer demand while also increasing dealerships' supply and motivation to sell electric vehicles
$300,000
2026
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build a national coalition to support a national vision for world class transit, and support Midwest communities to advance transit and policies to cut emissions, while localizing existing World-Class Transit research
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to study and create stakeholder engagement in the Midwest and nationally to articulate transit funding needs and policy reforms that transit advocates and policymakers can champion
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to steer transportation program implementation in the Midwest toward better climate and equity outcomes to better assess the climate and equity impacts of potential transportation investments
$106,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to fund the expansion of our community-led Pillar Event series that activates communities to build strength and capacity around funding, talent, quality of life, and support systems for social entrepreneurs, and for general operating support
$307,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Agroecology Gender-transformative Living labs for Climate Resilience (AGILE4Climate)
$320,000
2021
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Scaling out agroecological pest management and gender equity (SAGE) through farmer-centered approaches
$200,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to implement distributed solar in the rural Midwest
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to implement distributed solar in the rural Midwest
$200,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build broad and deep momentum toward a clean energy transition with distributed solar and community benefits with a focus on greater Minnesota
$200,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for support for programs for working artists
$175,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
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