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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$75,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$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
$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
$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
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$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
$250,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$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 launch a campaign to educate Midwest leaders about nitrous oxide emissions and to build awareness of the threat posed by nitrous oxide emissions
$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
$100,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$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
$150,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to communicate the importance and specifics of clean energy jobs in the Midwest, including publishing the annual Clean Jobs Midwest report
$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
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$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
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for the 2022 Distinguished Artist Award
$300,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support; and to support an emerging financial consumer protection coalition
$70,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$50,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for anti-payday loan program for accelerating economic mobility
$60,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$90,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$5,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support the Saigu campaign
$25,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support the Mothers of Gynecology campus tours
$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
$100,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$350,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$1,000,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the stabilization of affordable rental housing properties and providers
$3,025,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$1,500,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build a housing system that ensures housing access, stability, and affordability for everyone
$40,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$35,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$500,000
2025
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Enabling Agroecology
$100,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
for general operating and capacity building
$200,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for program support
$25,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for a Sundance Film Festival Bid
$593,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for the McKnight Artist Fellowships for media artists
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for a capital campaign
$240,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$300,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$200,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$300,000
2023
Arts & Culture
to grow and strengthen the Indigenous Arts Ecology in Minnesota
$300,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to grow and strengthen the Indigenous Arts Ecology in Minnesota
$138,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists and culture bearers
$92,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$121,000
2025
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
for Nutritional African Foods Initiative (NAFI), a participatory agroecological research to build knowledge and increase consumption of nutritional and climate-resilient African foods
$110,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$300,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for program 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
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build public support for policies that reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and generate opposition to false climate solutions in Iowa, a key state for influencing national agricultural policy
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support a grassroots organizing campaign to increase public support for policies that would reduce agricultural climate emissions and generate opposition to false solutions in Iowa
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for base-building, organizing, and bolstering narrative-shifting strategies to address methane from agriculture and factory farm biogas, and to increase support for a more just, sustainable, and climate-smart agriculture policy in Iowa and nationally
$855,000
2023
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Strengthening multi-stakeholder cooperation on Agroecology through integrated tools to enable transformative change
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support reporting in the Midwest on climate change and agriculture, equity issues in agriculture, and worker issues in the food system including Midwest-based reporters and audio producers
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support FERN’s reporting in the Midwest on climate change and agriculture, equity issues in agriculture, and worker issues in the food system
$30,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for a Climate Week NYC event
$140,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$196,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for a grant program for Minnesota artists working in public art
$140,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$196,000
2023
Arts & Culture
to support a grant program for Minnesota mid-career public artists
$144,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$196,000
2021
Arts & Culture
to support a grant program for Minnesota mid-career public artists
$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to maximize effective, equitable investment in transportation electrification programs in the Midwest through program design, help for communities seeking funds, and implementation support
$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for the continued funding of the Towards Equitable Electric Mobility (TEEM) Community of Practice
$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to provide technical assistance to Midwest states, cities, and organizations in capturing and implementing federal funding for equitable transportation electrification programs in the Midwest
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity, deepen relationships between equity focused and traditional organizations, and advance equitable electric mobility
$200,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity, create stronger relationships between equity focused and mainstream organizations, and advance equitable electric mobility
$300,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$200,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$15,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support in recognition of Fortis Capital’s participation in GroundBreak coalition's work groups
$180,000
2025
Arts & Culture
to educate, convene, and communicate the strength of the Forum of Regional Arts Councils, through a statewide project to help transform the RAC's individually and as a system
$135,000
2022
Arts & Culture
to educate, empower, and strengthen the Forum through a statewide project to help transform the Regional Arts Council's individually and as a system to be more equitable and work to decrease historic inequities
$75,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and to support the public launch and community organizing for the Minnesota Promise campaign
$200,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$35,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to create the second research report documenting the contributions and impact of Black women leaders in philanthropy
$80,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$80,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$80,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$70,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$110,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$2,600,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to move Minnesota and the Midwest toward dramatic near-term reductions in carbon pollution through equity-centered policy and implementation work, partnerships, communications, and innovation
$4,000,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to move Minnesota and the Midwest toward dramatic near-term reductions in carbon pollution through equity-centered policy work, partnerships, and innovation
$20,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support the TESTIFY: Americana from Slavery to Today exhibit at the Hennepin County Library
$500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support, and for coordinating Minnesota environmental leadership on Sustainable Aviation Fuels
$250,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$80,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$160,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support