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
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$15,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2018
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$80,000
2019
International
Farmer Videos in south-south learning
$50,000
2021
Arts & Culture
to uplift Black artists working toward better Black futures
$150,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build upon 2020 civic engagement momentum, expand relationships with elected leaders and decision makers, and organize with partners towards a multi-racial democracy
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$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
$500,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support operational and organizational development
$600,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
or general operating support, and to strengthen capacity to advocate for, acquire, rehabilitate, and stabilize affordable housing
$500,000
2019
Region & Communities
for general operating support and scaled innovation
$200,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$100,000
2019
Region & Communities
for the Josie R. Johnson Leadership Academy
$390,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and to build out organizational infrastructure
$300,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$200,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$52,000
2020
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support, and to help cover costs associated with CARES Act funding
$100,000
2018
Region & Communities
for general operating support
$40,000
2023
Arts & Culture
to plan and pilot programming and build new facility for increased artistic opportunities for African immigrant and next generation artists so they can catalyze the leadership, power, and creativity of artists and culture bearers
$100,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to redevelop a vacant commercial property in the Little Africa Cultural District to include a Halal meat market and grocery, retail space and community spaces, and AEDS offices
$200,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$302,000
2019
Region & Communities
to build capacity in delivering services that build wealth within the Twin Cities African immigrant communities, and to help cover costs associated with CARES Act funding
$100,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$100,000
2018
Mississippi River
to support a drinking water pay-for-success feasibility study in three Iowa communities
$50,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$50,000
2021
International
Enhancing Agroecology Friendly Policies and Practices in Tanzania
$900,000
2019
International
Embedding Option by Context interactions through improved participation and farmer leadership within the western Kenyan NGOs's Farmer Research Network
$116,000
2022
International
Agroecological Videos Bolivia
$80,000
2020
International
Videos on agroecological intensification in Ecuador
$250,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and to build regional capacity to scale and prototype hemp housing and expand the indigenous hemp building supply chain
$450,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$25,000
2022
International
to support African Agroecological Entrepreneurship and Territorial Markets Convening on May 24-26, 2022 in Kampala, Uganda
$500,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$500,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and support for the Blue Line Coalition
$400,000
2019
Region & Communities
for general operating support, and for the Regional Equity Project
$933,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for a residency consortium fellowship program for McKnight Artist Fellows
$720,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for designing and implementing a residency consortium fellowship program for McKnight Artist Fellows
$15,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for the 2019 Alliance of Artists Communities Summit in St. Paul, MN
$22,000
2023
International
Alliance magazine EDI audit
$900,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to advance racial equity and justice by shifting power and resources to Black, Indigenous, and Latino/a/x people living in low wealth, under-resourced communities
$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
$625,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for the McKnight Artist Fellowships for composers and for a visiting composer artists residency program
$622,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for the McKnight Artist Fellowships for composers
$400,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$300,000
2019
Mississippi River
to advance Conservation Cropping Systems and improve Illinois water quality, and for general operating support
$150,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support, and to support an arts and culture program
$75,000
2018
Arts & Culture
for the art program at Gimaajii, supporting the capacity of Native artists
$100,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support native organizations working collectively to secure building capital dollars from state resources
$160,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$140,000
2019
Region & Communities
to support Takoda Programs -- career pathway programming
$70,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build neighborhoods of racial equity, environmental justice, and community health in areas affected in the unrest through community advocacy of a multi-sector change agenda; to support and reimagine the Affordable Housing Design Awards program
$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
$15,000
2018
Arts & Culture
for scholarships for Minnesota artists to attend the June 2019 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention in the Twin Cities
$335,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to expand equitable outcomes and create opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and people of color leaders by sustaining and expanding a strong network of civic and public policy leadership programs
$200,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the Community Equity Program
$255,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
to support the Minnesota Compass Project to maintain data profiles and a custom mapping tool for Minneapolis-St. Paul neighborhoods and statewide regions
$225,000
2018
Region & Communities
for programmatic support of the Community Equity Pipeline
$300,000
2018
Region & Communities
to help build a leadership pipeline representing people of color and Indigenous communities
$100,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2020
Arts & Culture
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
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$80,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$35,000
2018
Arts & Culture
to support Future Forward: A Vision-Driven Leadership Succession planning process
$90,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2018
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$180,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$180,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$270,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$100,000
2019
Other Grantmaking
to support a Minnesota rural-urban exchange
$105,000
2018
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$50,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$30,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$80,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$45,000
2018
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$160,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$150,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the Little Mekong Market Cooperative and incubator, which will create up to 50 microbusinesses and anchor wealth building in Little Mekong by helping to transfer an asset to BIPOC business owners
$50,000
2020
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$300,000
2019
International
Punas-Pastures IV: Promoting innovations for Agro-Ecological Intensification (AEI) in agro-pastoral landscapes of the High Andes of Peru
$300,000
2022
International
Agroecological Youth in Action for Peru
$100,000
2022
International
Spread Agroecology: Responding to New Challenges
$100,000
2019
International
Dissemination and multiplication of innovative proposals on commercialization, consumption and agroecological practice adapted to climate change II
$500,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for working capital to launch Arise Community Credit Union as the state’s first Black-led community credit union and provide a pathway to stabilize and build community wealth
$100,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the launch of Village Financial Credit Union
$400,000
2019
Region & Communities
for general operating support
$240,000
2022
International
Support and strengthen the research networks of producers to improve their resilience to climate change in Burkina Faso and Mali
$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