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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$80,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating and capital support
$110,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$1,000,000
2025
Other Grantmaking
to strengthen U.S. democracy through support for efforts to protect civil society and ensure free and fair elections
$500,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to support pro-democracy work in Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin
$350,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
for program support
$400,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
for program support
$50,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support powerful organizations rooted in, and accountable to, multi-racial and multi-class bases within states
$1,000,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support BIPOC leadership development and movement building in the Midwest
$50,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support collaborative efforts that help reduce gun violence in the United States by supporting rational, evidence-based policies at the local, state, and federal levels
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to ensure that communities have access to the resources they need to be effective self-advocates in the redistricting process
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support a coalition of community groups in Chicago to guide the implementation of the city’s zero emission policies for medium- and heavy-duty trucks
$60,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$210,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and for capital support - New York Mills is a regional artist service organization in Minnesota’s Lakes Region that is focused on community-embedded arts practices.
$100,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$300,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$300,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$1,160,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support; and to steward the development of a coalition of real estate investment cooperatives
$1,550,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$300,000
2025
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Local Food Heritage and Gastronomy for Economic Development of Young People
$100,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support NPQ’s economic justice program and related curriculum development work, which advances understanding among nonprofits and social movement activists about what economic justice requires and how to achieve it
$200,000
2026
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support a participatory pooled fund regranting to grassroots organizations in the Ohio River Valley
$150,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build capacity to grow the impact and scope of local efforts to reimagine safety and address community requests for skills workshops
$485,000
2025
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$100,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the Indigenous Food Lab
$75,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$150,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and capital support
$50,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$70,000
2023
Arts & Culture
to fund the second phase pilot of an equity framework project between artists and cultural institutions in Minnesota
$506,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for the McKnight Artist Fellowships for ceramic artists and a visiting ceramic artists residency program
$280,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$250,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
to build capacity for the Northern Community News Initiative
$90,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$90,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2025
Other Grantmaking
to provide support for individuals and families experiencing financial hardship
$200,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to expand capital access and stabilize economies across Northeast Minnesota and Northwest Wisconsin
$200,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to go deeper on Belonging work, particularly with Indigenous communities and existing systems of power
$2,500,000
2022
Minnesota Initiative Foundations
for general operating support
$300,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support a new initiative, Wealth Builds Minneapolis, enabling scholars in North Minneapolis to excel academically, socially, and financially
$100,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$300,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$1,000,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating and capital support
$100,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$210,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists and culture bearers
$140,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$100,000
2025
Other Grantmaking
to provide support for individuals and families experiencing financial hardship
$2,500,000
2022
Minnesota Initiative Foundations
for general operating support
$50,000
2026
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the Organizing Forum workshop
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the continued development and dissemination of the Organizing the Midwest project
$850,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$500,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$450,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$200,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$325,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
EcoFarmers: Mobilizing actors to strengthen the agroecological food supply in the Kanata Metropolitan Region
$250,000
2025
Arts & Culture
to support essential capital improvements that will sustain Open Book’s infrastructure for the next 25 years while maintaining affordable rents to many arts, culture, and community partners
$70,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$70,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$70,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$270,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
to support agroecological research, development, and information-sharing at the Kenya AE Hub II
$750,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$780,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support, and for capacity building
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the "Rethinking I-94 for Climate, Equity, and Access" project
$170,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$100,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$300,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
to restore St. Anthony Falls as Owamniyomni, conveying control to the Dakota Tribes and initiating transformation of the site into a place of healing, connection, and education that honors Native history and living culture
$378,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Partnerships for Diversity (P4D): Strengthening farmer-research partnerships and joint action for collective power (Pilot phase)
$100,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Inception Phase of the project: Partnerships for Diversity – Strengthening farmer-research partnerships that provide plant varietal options to diverse farmers
$5,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$140,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$1,000,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for capital campaign support to purchase land and a building for the future home of Pangea World Theater
$140,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for capital contribution for planning and predevelopment for a new performance space and permanent home for Pangea World Theater
$140,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$1,650,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
to support core capacity for a strategic alliance of philanthropic foundations
$150,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$175,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$15,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support in recognition of Partnership in Property Commercial Land Trust's service on GroundBreak Coalition's work groups
$100,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to support the Milwaukee Midtown Voter Education and Voter Engagement project for the 2024 election cycle
$25,000
2025
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
to support the Global Food Sovereignty Movement
$50,000
2025
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support in recognition of the 30th anniversary of an organization dedicated to advancing equitable, effective grantmaking practices
$300,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$400,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$500,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and to build capacity for program piloting and business plan development for Penumbra’s next lifecycle as a center for racial healing and performing arts campus
$50,000
2025
Other Grantmaking
to provide a range of assistance to shelter residents
$650,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support, and to support member organizations of People’s Action Institute in the Midwest to leverage federal funds for climate campaign victories
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support climate organizing through deep canvassing, moving thousands of midwesterners to take action on climate
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the launch of a climate-focused deep canvass to strengthen democratic participation in the Midwest
$100,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to support a nonpartisan civic engagement research and narrative development project
$100,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Territorial markets and multi-stakeholder collaboration in Peru: Strengthening territorial markets through their value chains and economic ecosystems in Peru
$200,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the Readiness and Resilience Fund designated for communities impacted by emergent or ongoing crises or systems of oppression
$100,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support