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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$60,000
2018
Arts
for general operating support
$30,000
2016
Arts
for general operating support
$50,000
2016
Education
to support the general operations of MinnCAN
$31,092
2015
Education
to support MinnCAN's series of four reports on the educational experiences of Dual Language Learners
$65,000
2016
Education
to sustain and expand prekindergarten programming as Academia Cesar Chavez transitions out of the Pathway Schools Initiative
$80,000
2019
International
Farmer Videos in south-south learning
$240,000
2019
Mississippi River
to support the Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy facilitate better water stewardship and community resilience in the Mississippi River basin
$480,000
2018
Mississippi River
for program support to provide legal services to Louisiana communities facing environmental challenges
$160,000
2017
Mississippi River
to protect and restore the Mississippi River delta in Louisiana through better water law and policies
$141,000
2017
Mississippi River
to provide legal services to the Mississippi River Collaborative and to Louisiana communities facing environmental challenges
$160,000
2015
Mississippi River
to support the development of a Louisiana Water Code that sustains the coast and the Mississippi River
$282,000
2015
Mississippi River
to support Tulane University’s Environmental Law Clinic’s participation in the Mississippi River Collaborative, and to support the Clinic’s Community Outreach program
$35,000
2017
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support AEEI's Midwest Advanced Energy PUC Staff Forum
$20,000
2016
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Midwest Advanced Energy Public Utility Commission Forum
$500,000
2019
Region & Communities
for general operating support and scaled innovation
$500,000
2017
Region & Communities
to support acquisition and preservation of naturally occurring affordable housing properties
$350,000
2017
Region & Communities
for general operating support and to support organizational innovations to advance affordable multi-family housing
$375,000
2015
Region & Communities
for general operating support
$10,000
2016
International
to support the Democratization and Economic Development in Africa: The Minnesota Connection
$100,000
2019
Region & Communities
for the Josie R. Johnson Leadership Academy
$25,000
2016
Other Grantmaking
for general operating and capacity building
$120,000
2017
Region & Communities
to build tenant leadership to advocate for better living conditions and preserve housing, and to advance equitable community development approaches in Northwest suburbs
$50,000
2020
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$100,000
2018
Region & Communities
for general operating support
$40,000
2017
Region & Communities
to support the Small Business Lending Program
$65,000
2016
Region & Communities
for general operating support
$300,000
2019
Region & Communities
to build capacity in delivering services that build wealth within the Twin Cities African immigrant communities
$70,000
2018
Region & Communities
for general operating support
$35,000
2017
Region & Communities
for capacity building support to promote African immigrant business growth and vitality across the region
$35,000
2016
Region & Communities
to refine AEDS' business development curriculum, build capacity to offer technical assistance, and explore offering services in Brooklyn Center/Brooklyn Park
$40,000
2015
Mississippi River
to support its Sustainable Food Laboratory in generating a leadership group and strategies that increase environmentally beneficial small grain production in the Upper Mississippi River Basin
$100,000
2018
Mississippi River
to support a drinking water pay-for-success feasibility study in three Iowa communities
$450,000
2019
International
Embedding Option by Context interactions through improved participation and farmer leadership within the western Kenyan NGOs's Farmer Research Network
$400,000
2016
International
Harnessing Farmer Research Networks in Agricultural Technology Development, Testing, and Dissemination in Western Kenya
$160,000
2015
International
for the project, Establishment of a Farmer Research Network for Agricultural Technology Development, Testing and Dissemination in Western Kenya
$80,000
2020
International
Videos on agroecological intensification in Ecuador
$180,000
2018
International
Videos for Andean Cropping Systems
$100,000
2016
International
Farmer Videos
$400,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2019
Region & Communities
for general operating support, and for the Regional Equity Project
$35,000
2017
Region & Communities
for Minnesota engagement in the PolicyLink Equity Summit -- a national gathering focused on equity as necessary for our region's quality of life
$350,000
2017
Region & Communities
for general operating support, and for the Regional Equity Project
$15,000
2015
Region & Communities
to support Twin Cities engagement in the PolicyLink Equity Summit addressing greater equity as necessary for our region's quality of life and community and economic self-sufficiency
$350,000
2015
Region & Communities
to support general operations and the Regional Equity Project
$720,000
2020
Arts
for designing and implementing a residency consortium fellowship program for McKnight Artist Fellows
$15,000
2019
Arts
for the 2019 Alliance of Artists Communities Summit in St. Paul, MN
$75,000
2019
Mississippi River
for general operating support
$100,000
2018
Mississippi River
to engage business, government, academic, and civic organizations toward advancing a more collaborative, integrated systems approach to managing the 31-state Mississippi River watershed
$622,000
2020
Arts
for the McKnight Artist Fellowships for composers
$160,000
2019
Arts
for general operating support
$570,000
2017
Arts
for the McKnight Artist Fellowships for Composers and McKnight Visiting Composer program
$240,000
2016
Arts
for general operating support
$300,000
2019
Mississippi River
to advance Conservation Cropping Systems and improve Illinois water quality, and for general operating support
$225,000
2017
Mississippi River
to advance agricultural conservation in order to address nutrient losses and improve water quality both in Illinois and at the federal level
$175,000
2015
Mississippi River
to improve Illinois water quality through conservation cropping systems
$75,000
2018
Arts
for the art program at Gimaajii, supporting the capacity of Native artists
$40,000
2016
Arts
to support Gimaajii, a native artist program to develop skills to connect to the marketplace
$140,000
2019
Region & Communities
to support Takoda Programs -- career pathway programming
$45,000
2018
Region & Communities
for the launch of a biennial program recognizing progress made by architects, developers, financial institutions, public and private sector clients, and others in moving forward the core elements of 21st Century development in Minnesota
$80,000
2018
Region & Communities
to continue to build upon the success of the Affordable Design Award program with the goal of raising the level of housing design in the affordable housing field
$640,000
2019
Mississippi River
to support projects and policies that promote naturally functioning ecosystems in the Upper Mississippi River basin, and for general operating support
$360,000
2017
Mississippi River
to support projects and policies that promote river health and naturally functioning ecosystems in the Upper Mississippi River basin
$320,000
2015
Mississippi River
to support projects and policies that encourage resilient and naturally functioning ecosystems in the Mississippi River Basin
$150,000
2017
Mississippi River
to engage businesses in identifying and advancing market and policy solutions that support clean water in the Mississippi River corridor
$80,000
2015
Mississippi River
to ensure that key decisionmakers understand business support for protecting our nation's water
$15,000
2018
Arts
for scholarships for Minnesota artists to attend the June 2019 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention in the Twin Cities
$15,000
2015
Arts
for the New Community Visions convening of arts and culture professionals in St. Paul in 2015
$150,000
2019
Education
for program support of Wilder's Latino Leadership Program
$225,000
2018
Region & Communities
for programmatic support of the Community Equity Pipeline
$200,000
2018
Region & Communities
to help build a leadership pipeline representing people of color and Indigenous communities
$1,000,000
2018
Education
to support the Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood, a transformative education partnership that puts children on the pathway to college and career success
$314,000
2017
Other Grantmaking
to provide support for the Minnesota Compass project (www.mncompass.org); and to build and maintain the small area data profiles and a custom mapping tool for metro neighborhoods and statewide regions
$60,000
2016
Other Grantmaking
to support the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute, which nurtures diverse nonprofit and philanthropic leaders and organizations throughout Minnesota
$113,000
2016
Region & Communities
to develop the Minnesota Compass interactive neighborhood profiles within Minnesota regions beyond the seven-county metro and to enhance the profile features and data
$150,000
2016
Region & Communities
to support of the Wilder Center for Communities’ Community Equity Pipeline project
$49,000
2016
Arts
to develop a Minnesota Compass topic area dedicated to arts and culture, including the research, technological requirements, and the Compass advisory group process
$200,000
2016
Education
to support the Saint Paul Promise Neighborhoods' efforts to promote improved educational outcomes, stable housing, and employment opportunities
$25,000
2015
Region & Communities
for the 2015 triennial statewide study of homelessness
$100,000
2020
Arts
for general operating support
$100,000
2018
Arts
for general operating support
$70,000
2016
Arts
for general operating support
$80,000
2019
Education
for a parent advocacy program to address the systemic causes of illiteracy among students in Saint Paul Public Schools, and for general operating support
$80,000
2020
Arts
for general operating support
$35,000
2018
Arts
to support Future Forward: A Vision-Driven Leadership Succession planning process
$90,000
2017
Arts
for general operating support
$70,000
2015
Arts
for general operating support and for The Heritage Partnership Program
$60,000
2018
Arts
for general operating support
$40,000
2016
Arts
for general operating support
$105,000
2017
Mississippi River
to educate and galvanize the public and build capacity to protect water quality in Arkansas and the Mississippi River
$210,000
2015
Mississippi River
to support continued participation in the Mississippi River Collaborative, and its efforts in Arkansas to protect water quality
$180,000
2019
Arts
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$270,000
2016
Arts
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$100,000
2019
Other Grantmaking
to support a Minnesota rural-urban exchange
$105,000
2018
Arts
for general operating support
$50,000
2016
Arts
for general operating support
$45,000
2018
Arts
for general operating support
$30,000
2016
Arts
for general operating support
$45,000
2018
Arts
for general operating support
$30,000
2016
Arts
for general operating support
$225,000
2016
Arts
to strengthen arts and artist-led organizations via ArtsLab
$150,000
2018
Arts
for capital support of the Northside Artspace Lofts
$240,000
2018
Arts
for general operating support
$160,000
2016
Arts
for general operating support
$100,000
2015
Arts
to develop affordable live/work artist housing and community space for the arts in Hastings, MN
$50,000
2020
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$230,000
2017
Region & Communities
for general operating support, and for capital to redevelop a vacant commercial space in Little Mekong as a new Creative Makers Business Incubator
$90,000
2015
Region & Communities
for general operating support
$100,000
2019
International
Dissemination and multiplication of innovative proposals on commercialization, consumption and agroecological practice adapted to climate change II
$38,000
2018
International
for the project, Dissemination and Multiplication of Innovative Proposals on Commercialization, Consumption and Sustainable Agriculture Practices Adapted to Climate Change
$400,000
2019
Region & Communities
for general operating support
$180,000
2019
International
Supporting and strengthening farmers' research networks to improve local innovation in Burkina Faso and Mali
$370,000
2019
International
Farmers Knowledge II
$88,000
2019
International
farmer research network around the farmer association AMSP in Burkina Faso-Lessons learned
$160,000
2019
Mississippi River
for general operating support
$80,000
2017
Mississippi River
to protect and restore wetlands and floodplains along the Mississippi River and elsewhere through changes in state and federal programs
$80,000
2015
Mississippi River
to strengthen protection and restoration of wetlands and floodplains in the Mississippi River corridor states by advancing improvements in state and federal programs
$300,000
2018
Mississippi River
for general operating support
$90,000
2016
Mississippi River
to support Atchafalaya Basinkeeper's monitoring and enforcement activities that protect the basin
$75,000
2018
Education
to support The School Leadership Project in sustaining the work of the Regional Turnaround Strategy Group
$80,000
2019
Region & Communities
to support leadership development and provide programs that build civic engagement and representative democracy for women across Minnesota, particularly Somali and East African women