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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$50,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to organize stakeholders in the east metro to advance a clean transportation system-electrification and a strong transit system
$100,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support organizing and voter engagement in North Minneapolis
$500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$200,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$25,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the state landscaping project in Indiana
$2,000,000
2025
Other Grantmaking
to support the Organizing Lab
$500,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to support a year-round civic engagement strategy across the state of Wisconsin
$250,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance equitable climate solutions in Minnesota
$400,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the Midwest State Power Training and Capacity Hub
$15,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to support Minnesota Reformer's Report for America reporter
$1,400,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Research Methods Support
$200,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to continue to support funder education and engagement on policy development to reduce emissions from working lands and to advance carbon sequestration strategies
$50,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support policy development and funder organizing to reduce emissions from working lands and to advance carbon sequestration strategies
$200,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Farmer-Centered Agroecology Research in Tanzania
$150,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
to Support Farmer-Centered Agroecology Research in Tanzania
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$100,000
2025
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Valuing Metrics: Advancing Common Metrics for TCA Investments
$150,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support research, education, and outreach on energy and climate issues in the Midwest
$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support research, education, and outreach on energy and climate issues in the Midwest
$300,000
2021
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Supporting agroecology peasant schools in the Andes
$250,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and for capital support to secure a permanent location
$90,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$350,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to develop and advance worker-focused policy goals rooted in base-building
$500,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to identify, support, and amplify the role of organizational and movement culture and the culture bearers who advance it
$560,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support; and to support the Minnesota Democracy Defense Initiative
$335,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build organizing staff capacity and advance worker-led campaigns and support electoral programming
$100,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to bridge a funding gap for work to improve restaurant workers’ lives by building worker power and uniting workers of various backgrounds around shared goals and values
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build a mandate for and the capacity to advance equitable climate solutions in Minnesota
$800,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support; and for building progressive governing power and bridging the political divide through education
$380,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support environmental justice organizing work and program development
$190,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support environmental justice organizing work and program development
$400,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build a mandate for and the capacity to advance equitable climate solutions in Minnesota
$400,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build a mandate for equitable climate solutions in Minnesota
$190,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support multiracial grassroots organizing and environmental justice outreach in Minnesota
$430,000
2025
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Agroecological Transition in Tanzania: Zanzibar Vegetable Safety and National Policy Advancement
$125,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to leverage $1 million in matched Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines funds to regrant to Minnesota nonprofits supporting affordable housing and community development
$110,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and one-time capacity support for succession planning as the founding artistic director prepares to retire
$80,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$110,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$90,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$90,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$90,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$300,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$394,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for a fellowship program for fiber artists
$100,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$379,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for McKnight Artist Fellowships for midcareer fiber artists in Minnesota
$100,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$200,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$100,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$200,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to work with Midwestern state and regional governments to deepen commitment to measurable climate goals
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to raise Midwestern states' climate action ambition
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to raise Midwestern states’ climate ambition and action
$150,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$614,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for McKnight Artist Fellowships and development opportunities for midcareer dancers in Minnesota
$575,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for McKnight Artist Fellowships and development opportunities for midcareer choreographers in Minnesota
$150,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$70,000
2024
Arts & Culture
to support the MN-Made flagship program
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for capital support
$70,000
2022
Arts & Culture
to support MN-MADE, developing and showcasing working film artists from across the state of Minnesota
$50,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support development of farmers of color as leaders and stewards of our land
$498,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
for use of native and wild plant diversity to strengthen sustainable quinoa production in the arid landscape of the Bolivian altiplano
$100,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Youth-led social mobilization to promote food security through agroecological transition in Bolivia
$330,000
2021
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Agroecological intensification in the agro-food systems of the arid and semiarid regions of the Altiplano in Bolivia
$166,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Mobility and Access Collaborative, and to do a Midwest scan of sustainable and equitable transportation to better understand the landscape of clean transportation strategies and engage more funders
$300,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$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
$72,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
to support breeding perennial quinoa
$375,000
2023
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
for farmer-participatory evaluation and development of perennial sorghum cropping systems to enhance food security and ecosystem resilience in the Drylands of Uganda
$160,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$635,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for a fellowship program for writers
$50,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for strategic planning process
$622,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for McKnight Artist Fellowships for midcareer literary artists and writers in Minnesota
$344,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$38,000,000
2022
Neuroscience Endowment Fund
for award programs supporting research in neuroscience
$75,000
2025
Other Grantmaking
to enable matching support to eligible local- and state-focused nonprofit newsrooms serving communities around Minnesota
$65,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to launch a Minnesota matching fund which will provide critical matching support to eligible local- and state-focused nonprofit newsrooms serving communities around the state
$40,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$120,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$100,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$50,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$50,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$260,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support energy system transformation in Iowa and the creation of a data tool to support optimal siting of clean energy projects on working lands
$300,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to tackle climate change across Iowa and Minnesota by sparking energy system transformation and developing natural climate solutions to drive inclusive conversations and meaningful impact
$1,000,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the work of the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy
$165,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
to conduct a media landscape analysis for Minnesota in order to determine the availability of trusted, culturally competent news sources for underrepresented communities
$50,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$500,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to improve life outcomes for boys and men of color
$300,000
2025
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Promoting Agroecology Practices for Biodiversity Conservation and Food Security in the UNESCO Designated Mount Elgon Transboundary Biosphere Reserve
$40,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and for website redesign to enhance communication capacity