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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$40,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
for leadership and coordination of the goals, strategies, and tactics of the Grand Marais Climate Action Plan
$150,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to help build community capacity and relationships to innovate and co-create strategies to dismantle systemic racism and disparities
$250,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for predevelopment work including a feasibility demand and viability assessment for a new City-led Small Business Development Center that would support and uplift small business activity to be located in a repurposed fire station
$800,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Citizens Utility Board is a nonprofit representing energy consumers in Minnesota, advocating on their behalf in decision-making venues and providing direct assistance through outreach and education.
$650,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$390,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to make Minnesota policymaking more inclusive and accessible, enhancing the civic capacity of community most impacted to lead in public policymaking; and for general operating support
$25,000
2020
Other Grantmaking
to organize and offer collaborative opportunities to address various challenges related to COVID-19 through innovative hack-a-thons and design sprints
$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund works to support economic, racial, and environmental justice through community organizing across Wisconsin.
$300,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$75,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and capital support
$30,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$600,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to mobilize partners to make the business case for state policies and regulations that spur equitable transition to a decarbonized transportation system and a clean energy economy in the Midwest, and to support the Climate Smart Agriculture Working Group
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to mobilize Ceres’ company and investor partners to make the business case for state policies and regulations that spur an equitable transition to a decarbonized transportation system and a clean energy economy in the Midwest
$50,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to mobilize Ceres’ company and investor partners to make the business case for state policies and regulations that spur an equitable transition to a decarbonized transportation system and a clean energy economy in the Midwest
$60,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to expand the work of the Jovenes Latinas al Poder program that raises awareness of anti-blackness in the Latine community, including community elders, and promoting a new narrative of Black Latines
$30,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to expand Jovenes Latinas al Poder girls advocacy group and engage youth participants in raising awareness and working to change the narrative of anti-blackness in the Latine community
$100,000
2023
Arts & Culture
to support work that centers the leadership of artists and culture bearers
$150,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Advancing Climate Data Integration in Agroecological Research
$350,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Assessing agroecological practices as non-market approaches for climate action: A synthesis of evidence from the Andes
$500,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support - Centro de Trabajadores Unidos En La Lucha (CTUL) is a worker-led collective where low-wage workers organize, educate, and empower each other to advocate for change in their workplaces and communities.
$125,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support new leadership transition and an updated model of executive roles, ensuring continuity and clarity across CTUL through strategic planning, recruitment, training, and contracted support
$300,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$300,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support equitable new models for development, housing, and community safety
$175,000
2020
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$124,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Developing and promoting locally adapted practices to improve environmental conditions and enhance nutritional and health security in Sub-Saharan Africa (EnvFood)
$450,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Feeding the soil and feeding the cow to feed the people: co-designing agro-sylvo-pastoral systems in sudano-sahelian Burkina Faso
$300,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists and culture bearers
$200,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$50,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Develop a general framework for implementing physiologically based models (PBDMs), data, and weather files for use by researchers globally
$20,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
for a feasibility study for the development of a Python-based platform for evaluating crop/pest systems globally
$425,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support and one-time business plan development support
$250,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the capacity of Midwest communities to engage and elevate agriculture climate solutions and agriculture policy development
$250,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to engage diverse rural communities in Iowa and Minnesota on climate change
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to bolster climate change and sustainable agriculture policy development for federal farm policies
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to bolster climate change and climate-focused agriculture policy capacity
$300,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build long-term community organizing capacity through multi-issue advocacy and engagement in rural Minnesota and Iowa
$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support a project of the Center for Popular Democracy: The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice, an online journal and forum for organizing strategy and practice among community, labor, electoral, movement, and digital organizers
$50,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice, an online journal focused on creating a forum for innovative conversations about organizing strategy and practice among community, labor, electoral, movement, and digital organizers
$50,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Center for Hmong Arts and Talent supports Hmong artists by paying artists for various projects, by organizing workshops for artists, and by creating a space for artists to network and support each other.
$100,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$200,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support - The Center for Evaluation Innovation partners with philanthropy on strategy, learning, and evaluation efforts that are intended to advance racial equity and justice.
$250,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to listen to and leverage the voices of visionary philanthropic leaders
$425,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to lay the groundwork for rapid, systematic and equitable building decarbonization in Minnesota
$725,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance equitable building decarbonization in Minnesota
$425,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to defend, evolve, and expand Minnesota’s energy efficiency policies, and to accelerate to a just and equitable decarbonized grid in Minnesota and the Midwest
$20,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support - Center for Effective Philanthropy provides data, feedback, programs, and insights to help individual and institutional donors improve their effectiveness.
$75,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
to support the Nonprofit Voice Panel to gather perspectives from nonprofit leaders across the country about funding, funders, and nonprofit needs
$10,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$10,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$10,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$10,000
2020
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$50,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to develop and launch a family sustaining wage campaign in Minnesota
$670,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$15,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to acquire and expand Growth & Justice's products and research as that organization sunsets
$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy works to advance environmental justice policies and movement across Minnesota, the Midwest, and the country
$300,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$85,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support an inclusive process to assess how a land trust led by Black and Indigenous people can catalyze a transition to a regenerative economy, increase wealth access and intergenerational land stability
$250,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to help community and labor leverage federal investments and use of Community Benefit Plans in developing more inclusive economies, while facilitating the transition to a clean energy economy
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Small Town Summit
$200,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the From the State House to the White House Initiative to build upon local/state climate leadership to lay the roadmap for nationwide climate action
$70,000
2022
Arts & Culture
to support Catalyst programming
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for capacity building support
$95,000
2020
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Blue Marble Infrastructure Phase 2
$250,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build out CAPI’s democratic participation and power building efforts
$400,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$150,000
2020
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$120,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to facilitate the merger of Canary Media and Energy News Network
$250,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to work with rural communities across the Midwest to advance EV adoption by providing them with resources and tools they need to successfully apply for state and federal resources and transition to zero-emissions fleets
$64,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support educational outreach to decision makers and stakeholders on the energy transition in the U.S and Minnesota
$32,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to promote BloombergNEF's annual Sustainable Energy in America Factbook with a focus on Minnesota and Midwest clean energy markets
$32,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to promote the Bloomberg New Energy Finance's annual Sustainable Energy in America Factbook with a focus on Minnesota and Midwest clean energy markets
$32,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to promote Bloomberg New Energy Finance's annual Sustainable Energy in America Factbook with a focus on Minnesota and Midwest clean energy markets
$500,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support - Building Strong Communities is a multi-trade apprenticeship preparatory program that prepares individuals for a career in the construction industry.
$200,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support - Building Dignity and Respect Standards Council works to advance the human rights of the workers that are building our communities, by setting standards for and monitoring the Twin Cities' construction industry.
$200,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$75,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$150,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support equitable building decarbonization efforts in the Midwest
$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity in support of Thermal Energy Networks
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Thermal Utility Reform Initiative and launch thermal network pilot projects in the Midwest
$500,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support - Build Wealth MN works to reduce gaps in home ownership, employment, and income by helping thousands of families get better financial and social education with coaching and resources.
$1,000,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for lending and seed capital for the 9000 Equities Targeted Mortgage Program
$15,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support in recognition of Build Wealth Minnesota's contribution to the GroundBreak Coalition's work groups
$300,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$200,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support -Build from Within Alliance advances a community development model of supporting low-income entrepreneurs in systemically disinvested communities of color and generates awareness, acceptance, and resources across the country.
$100,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and capacity building - Brownbody is a figure skating performing arts company that activates on-ice storytelling from the African diaspora.
$60,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$69,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$300,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to cultivate the purpose, prosperity, and power of all young people in Minnesota
$1,500,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to purchase a 400+ single family rental portfolio of properties and equitably reposition them for homeownership
$1,500,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to purchase a 400+ single family rental portfolio of properties and equitably reposition them for homeownership
$25,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to bridge divisions and strengthen democracy in rural Minnesota
$100,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to support the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund
$100,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
to support the Emerging LGBTQ+ Leaders of Color Fund
$100,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund by joining as a learning partner
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support applied research on air quality and health benefits impacts from Midwest energy and climate policy
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support applied research on air quality and health benefits impacts from Midwest energy and climate policy
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support applied research on air quality and health benefits impacts from Midwest energy and climate policy
$2,000,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support Black leaders in Minnesota to effectively respond to our current moment and the future and to support the SOAR effort
$850,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
to support Black leaders in Minnesota to build relational trust, shared analysis, and strategies that equip leaders to effectively respond to our current moment and the future
$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to develop and advance innovative climate and energy transition policies in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin that achieve carbon reduction goals while building a clean, thriving, and equitable economy
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance innovative climate and energy transition strategies in Minnesota that achieve carbon reduction goals while building a clean, thriving, and equitable economy
$75,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance equitable climate, clean energy, and just transition policies in Minnesota
$75,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to continue engagement of stakeholders in clean, economic transition plans across Minnesota
$55,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and for leadership development support
$90,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$150,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Black Women Rising works to support a multi-state campaign that amplifies Black voices in the narratives of Appalachia and builds capacity, leadership, and agency to Black communities in Eastern Ohio
$250,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Black Appalachian Coalition