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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$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support education, engagement, and activation on climate action in the Midwest
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Clean and Equitable Transportation Campaign coalition, which aims to reform the Illinois State Department of Transportation and reorient state and federal funding to maximize emissions reductions and meet community needs
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for the Illinois Clean and Equitable Transportation Campaign
$450,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity in Greater Minnesota counties to successfully apply for state and federal grants
$50,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to provide capacity building support in the continued development and execution of the Buildings Hub data analysis platform
$50,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to update Bemidji State University’s Climate Action Plan
$450,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota is a statewide organization advancing and advocating for active transportation policies and infrastructure.
$260,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support, and for professional development support for new leadership
$475,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Blacks In Green (BIG) is committed to tackling climate injustice and ensuring that historically marginalized communities have access to the benefits of the emerging green economy.
$30,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to nurture women leaders in climate work, especially emerging BIPOC leaders in the Midwest
$28,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the 2021 Living Systems Leadership training workshop by providing scholarships, and to support BSI to meaningfully adapt to pandemic-related contexts
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$100,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to facilitate the merger of Canary Media and Energy News Network
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$300,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$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.
$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
$40,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
for leadership and coordination of the goals, strategies, and tactics of the Grand Marais Climate Action Plan
$50,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support strategic planning and development of strategic priorities to advance climate and equity in all city infrastructure investments and project development
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the continuous measurement of air quality and greenhouse gases at the block level and create a baseline for the city's Green Zones and surrounding Areas of Concentrated Poverty
$50,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build staff capacity for implementation of the city's Climate Action Plan
$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to create a new Climate Action Coordinator position in the City's Office of Financial Services, to build capacity for the City of Saint Paul to accelerate its equitable climate action work
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support implementation of the city's Climate Action Plan
$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build a stronger and more equitable innovation ecosystem in Minnesota and the Midwest for energy and climate technologies
$475,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to accelerate equitable clean energy and climate solutions in the Midwest
$475,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Clean Energy Jobs and Justice Fund, one of Illinois’ two state-level green banks, provides innovative financial products to expand access to clean energy and career pathways for disadvantaged communities.
$75,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support Midwest states' efforts to implement federal programs
$700,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Clean Grid Alliance is a Minnesota-based organization that works across the Midwest to support the expansion of renewable energy in the region
$600,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support, and to support the Land & Liberty Coalition
$600,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$75,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to initiate a landscape assessment of emerging climate technologies and build-out in rural Minnesota and how it will impact the communities’ health, including community engagement
$600,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - to support CURE's continued leadership bringing forward rural voices on Energy, Working Lands, and Democracy issues in Greater Minnesota and neighboring states
$365,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to engage rural communities in Minnesota around clean energy and efficiency opportunities as well as to support a working lands strategy
$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Clean Wisconsin works across key decision-making venues to combat climate change and ensure a healthy future for all Wisconsin communities.
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$350,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity for equitable climate solutions in the Midwest
$500,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to help climate advocates improve their public engagement work
$100,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance the goals of economic, racial, climate, and environmental justice in the Midwest
$4,500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support; and to do a landscape assessment of Ohio's climate justice organizing infrastructure to develop strategic climate grantmaking and national philanthropic investments in the state
$4,000,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support grantmaking and technical assistance for BIPOC organizing on climate and clean energy in the Midwest
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to help Midwest communities leverage federal funding and equitably transition to clean energy
$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Climate Generation’s mission is to ignite and sustain the ability of educators, youth, and communities to act on systems perpetuating the climate crisis.
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$300,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$150,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to create state-based and state-led Climate Jobs coalitions in Wisconsin
$150,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the development of new Climate Jobs coalitions in Wisconsin and Michigan
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Climate Land Leaders works to support climate leadership by working with farm landowners in the Midwest to change farming practices and champion climate solutions.
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to help farmland owners implement climate-friendly practices on their lands, advance climate initiatives and narratives
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Coalition for Green Capital works with state and local green banks, community development financial institutions, and other stakeholders to remove financial barriers to the equitable deployment of clean energy.
$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to coordinate decarbonization efforts in one of Ann Arbor's frontline neighborhoods
$75,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for continued program support to design a pathway to equitably decarbonizing a frontline neighborhood
$75,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to work with the Bryant community in Ann Arbor to develop a whole home assessment aimed at improving indoor comfort, health, and safety, all while decarbonizing the neighborhood
$350,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to convene, educate and assist local communities in building a clean energy infrastructure and to provide technical assistance to support accessing and managing federal grants
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for the Reimagine Appalachia program to transform Appalachia, Ohio, and the Ohio River Valley region of Appalachia through state and local action
$150,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to develop local Community Economic Development Capacity Building Programs to transition away from fossil fuels
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support participatory regranting by groups working in Ohio on critical climate and climate-related issues
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to transform Appalachia, Ohio, and the Ohio River Valley region of Appalachia through state and local action
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to develop local a Community Economic Development Capacity Building Program to support Ohio communities' transition from fossil fuels
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to seize a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform Ohio and the Appalachian region through federal investment and state and local action
$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the equitable and replicable implementation of a Twin Cities Community-Based Energy Efficiency Navigator Pilot Program
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to sustain a Twin Cities energy justice cohort
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support and grow a Twin Cities energy justice network
$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - COPAL works to build collective power, transform systems, and create opportunities for dignified lives for Latin Americans in Minnesota.
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support – Congregations Caring for Creation mobilizes communities of faith in support of a clean energy economy that invests in the prosperity of working class, rural, and communities of color statewide.
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$485,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to host a series of convenings that help Minnesota entities take advantage of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Elective Pay to build publicly-owned clean energy projects and create high-quality jobs in their communities
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support a farmer mentoring program to implement regenerative farming practices