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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$100,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support work on improving electric utility performance and bolstering electric competition, reducing barriers to distributed energy, and advancing grid-enhancing technologies in Minnesota and the broader Midwest
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support work on improving electric utility performance-based rates in Minnesota and bolster electric competition, reduce barriers to distributed energy, and advance grid-enhancing technologies in Minnesota and the broader Midwest
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support engagement in the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on multiple topics to drive renewable and distributed energy resource adoption in the Midwest
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support engagement in the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on multiple topics to drive renewable and distributed energy resource adoption in the Midwest
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support EV-focused community engagement events in rural Minnesota and to provide technical assistance to municipalities attempting to utilize clean transportation incentives
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support Recharge Minnesota to work with rural leaders and communities to support transportation electrification
$50,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support Recharge Minnesota to recognize state EV leaders and conduct community engagement campaigns
$75,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support Red Lake Nation Government to pursue a FEMA grant for the planning and scoping project of two microgrids
$500,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the development of a Soil Health branch within the Commission
$300,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$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
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support community engagement and technical assistance around a standardized energy equity framework
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
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
$4,000,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance equitable electrification in the Midwest through place-based demonstration projects and policy development
$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
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
$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
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for program support
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for program support
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
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
$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
$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
$75,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to accelerate electric vehicle adoption in Wisconsin
$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
$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
$50,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to organize stakeholders in the east metro to advance a clean transportation system-electrification and a strong transit system
$500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$25,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the state landscaping project in Indiana
$250,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance equitable climate solutions in Minnesota
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to continue to support funder education and engagement on policy development to reduce emissions from working lands and to advance carbon sequestration strategies
$50,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support policy development and funder organizing to reduce emissions from working lands and to advance carbon sequestration strategies
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$150,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support research, education, and outreach on energy and climate issues in the Midwest
$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support research, education, and outreach on energy and climate issues in the Midwest
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build a mandate for and the capacity to advance equitable climate solutions in Minnesota
$380,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support environmental justice organizing work and program development
$400,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build a mandate for and the capacity to advance equitable climate solutions in Minnesota
$190,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support environmental justice organizing work and program development
$400,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build a mandate for equitable climate solutions in Minnesota
$190,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support multiracial grassroots organizing and environmental justice outreach in Minnesota
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to work with Midwestern state and regional governments to deepen commitment to measurable climate goals
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to raise Midwestern states' climate action ambition
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to raise Midwestern states’ climate ambition and action
$50,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support development of farmers of color as leaders and stewards of our land
$166,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Mobility and Access Collaborative, and to do a Midwest scan of sustainable and equitable transportation to better understand the landscape of clean transportation strategies and engage more funders
$260,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support energy system transformation in Iowa and the creation of a data tool to support optimal siting of clean energy projects on working lands
$300,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to tackle climate change across Iowa and Minnesota by sparking energy system transformation and developing natural climate solutions to drive inclusive conversations and meaningful impact
$100,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build the organization’s capacity apply for state and federal funds to green their buildings and deploy renewable energy projects
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support organizing efforts in Michigan that lead to polices that support safe, secure, and clean built housing
$150,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support environmental justice policy advocacy, education, and community engagement in the Twin Cities
$250,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to address climate change through an environmental justice lens in Minneapolis, and to launch a community-informed policy framework
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity for climate education and mobilization plans in the Midwest
$200,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity for climate education and mobilization plans in the Midwest
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support a just transition from reliance on fossil fuels to a sustainable economy and an equitable society
$200,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity for education and mobilization plans in the Midwest
$300,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build community organizing and system change capacity for the Minneapolis People’s Climate and Equity Plan, prioritizing frontline BIPOC communities and building a multiracial, multigenerational city wide change
$75,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to provide technical assistance to clean fuels policy design in Minnesota, Michigan, and Illinois, and to advance equitable transportation electrification in Minnesota and the Midwest
$75,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to accelerate equitable transportation electrification in Minnesota and the Midwest
$75,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support analysis and stakeholder engagement around clean fuels and other clean transportation policies in Minnesota and the Midwest
$150,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support Midwest Alliance states in accessing federal climate funds and in bolstering their climate resilience
$200,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support regional climate leadership in the Midwest
$19,200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to equitably decarbonize the Midwest by supporting powerful and inclusive coalitions with the ability to transform markets and the economy through state action in seven states
$19,200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build and support the Midwest network of advocates in pursuit of ambitious and equitable climate action
$150,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support grantees historically not included in the clean transportation space, and broaden the scope of both community grantmaking and advocacy partners for the equitable clean transportation future
$9,700,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to equitably decarbonize the Midwest power, transportation, and building sectors
$80,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support a narrative-based podcast, based on research, that helps the public understand the climate problem and its solutions
$32,930
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to plan, produce, and promote a podcast anthology on the climate crisis aimed at the climate curious
$150,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance a Path to One Million Acres of Winter Camelina scaling study and grow staff capacity for advancing winter oilseeds
$640,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to engage and support Minnesota communities in implementing clean energy projects
$25,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build participatory approaches that integrate psychological well-being, community resilience, and sense of belonging with local climate policy and planning to support Somali American youth as climate leaders reflective of a diversity of cultural values
$75,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to test, refine, and understand the economic and behavioral barriers for farmers in Minnesota to adopt climate-friendly farming practices
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to expand a research engagement platform with Minnesota's municipal and cooperative utilities to advance clean energy
$430,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to convert opportunity into action by scaling policy-enabled clean energy opportunities in communities across Minnesota and sharing stories to promote replication
$400,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Institute on the Environment’s implementation of an integrated research, leadership, and outreach plan for decarbonization, centered in Minnesota
$75,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the launch of the National Agroecology Program at the UVM Institute for Agroecology
$50,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to convene scientists, activists, farmers, and community organizers from across the United States to build a roadmap for promoting agroecology in the US
$300,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$300,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to positively change the culture of Minnesota by channeling Minnesotan's love of our natural places into increased trust in one another, connection across difference, and greater stewardship of our lakes, rivers, forests, fields, and backyards
$88,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$175,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support Midwestern cities to co-create climate policies and programs with community partners
$175,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support training for Midwestern cities transitioning from consultative processes toward power-sharing models and co-creating sound climate policies and programs
$175,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$175,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support Midwestern local governments’ leadership on sustainability
$175,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support Minneapolis and other city governments to implement equitable climate action planning processes and outcomes
$110,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the work of a Midwest-focused federal funds consultant to navigate the federal funding landscape; facilitation of collaborative learning opportunities and convenings that connect and enable non-profits and funders to navigate federal funding
$50,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to organize a series of climate, health, and equity convenings in the Midwest for nonprofit, philanthropic, health, tribal, public sector, and other regional stakeholders
$100,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advocate for the just and equitable clean energy transition in Minnesota
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to drive clean energy progress through partnership, regulatory intervention, and legislative strategy in Minnesota
$50,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support regulatory intervention work across the Midwest to support clean energy transition