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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$500,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support the work of Native Voices Rising for BIPOC leadership development and movement building in the Midwest
$300,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support and program support to expand and sustain long-term movement-building infrastructure through the MN Alliance for Democracy, the statewide multiracial solidarity coalition
$250,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the Minnesota program
$775,000
2023
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Smallholder Soil Health Assessment - Supporting soils research, awareness, and capacity building towards managing agroecosystems for agroecological transitions
$105,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Forage and Fallows Phase IV: Promoting and Refining Options for Sustainable Soil and Landscape Management
$105,000
2021
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Examining Sustainable Soil and Landscape Management Options in the Peruvian Andes
$50,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
to change narratives on Native inequities, nurture Native leadership, and build Native and non-Native relationships by investigating and disseminating research on impacts of assimilation at a Native American boarding school
$75,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to expand the existing impact investing ecosystem in the Twin Cities
$120,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$120,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$200,000
2026
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$100,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
to increase organizational capacity to address the increasing incidences of racism toward Asian Americans across Minnesota
$850,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support; and program support for civic engagement and democratic participation work
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$300,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$50,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to catalyze systems change for youth facing homelessness by investing in their relationships with the caring adults already in their lives, removing systemic barriers that devalue vibrant informal support networks, especially in BIPOC communities
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to help farmland owners implement climate-friendly practices on their lands, advance climate initiatives and narratives
$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
$600,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$200,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to help lawmakers cut emissions while reducing household costs by championing clean and affordable transportation, electricity, and clean and affordable finances across the Midwest
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to help Midwest communities leverage federal funding and equitably transition to clean energy
$4,000,000
2026
Midwest Climate & Energy
for grantmaking and technical assistance to support multi-racial communities and multi-issues organizing to advance climate and clean energy solutions in the Midwest
$6,500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support; to do a landscape assessment of Ohio's climate justice organizing infrastructure to develop strategic climate grantmaking; and to support durable power building and grantmaking and changemaking strategy in Ohio
$4,000,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support grantmaking and technical assistance for BIPOC organizing on climate and clean energy in the Midwest
$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
$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$600,000
2025
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
$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
$700,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$600,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support, and to support the Land & Liberty Coalition
$75,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support Midwest states' efforts to implement federal programs
$500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$500,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$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
$350,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to conduct a comprehensive assessment and analysis of the economic impact and workforce development potential of recent federal and state climate policies for Minnesota
$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
$165,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to convene and build capacity of shared ownership ecosystem
$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
$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
$400,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$500,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$15,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support in recognition of City of Lakes Community Land Trust’s contribution to the GroundBreak coalition’s work groups
$150,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to help build community capacity and relationships to innovate and co-create strategies to dismantle systemic racism and disparities
$250,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for predevelopment work including a feasibility demand and viability assessment for a new City-led Small Business Development Center that would support and uplift small business activity to be located in a repurposed fire station
$800,000
2026
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$800,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$650,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$125,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$390,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to make Minnesota policymaking more inclusive and accessible, enhancing the civic capacity of community most impacted to lead in public policymaking; and 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.
$300,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$300,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$55,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support; and for one-time capital support
$75,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and capital support
$30,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$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
$60,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to expand the work of the Jovenes Latinas al Poder program that raises awareness of anti-blackness in the Latine community, including community elders, and promoting a new narrative of Black Latines
$30,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to expand Jovenes Latinas al Poder girls advocacy group and engage youth participants in raising awareness and working to change the narrative of anti-blackness in the Latine community
$100,000
2023
Arts & Culture
to support work that centers the leadership of artists and culture bearers
$150,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Advancing Climate Data Integration in Agroecological Research
$350,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Assessing agroecological practices as non-market approaches for climate action: A synthesis of evidence from the Andes
$800,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$125,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support new leadership transition and an updated model of executive roles, ensuring continuity and clarity across CTUL through strategic planning, recruitment, training, and contracted support
$300,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$300,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support equitable new models for development, housing, and community safety
$124,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Developing and promoting locally adapted practices to improve environmental conditions and enhance nutritional and health security in Sub-Saharan Africa (EnvFood)
$200,000
2025
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Food Systems Transformation through strengthening and creating connections among Agroecology actors in a wider landscape Circular and Solidarity Economy, in Teso Sub-region, Uganda (AEB-FST-WLCSE)
$450,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Feeding the soil and feeding the cow to feed the people: co-designing agro-sylvo-pastoral systems in sudano-sahelian Burkina Faso
$300,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists and culture bearers
$200,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$90,000
2024
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Develop a general framework for implementing physiologically based models (PBDMs), data, and weather files for use by researchers globally
$20,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
for a feasibility study for the development of a Python-based platform for evaluating crop/pest systems globally
$375,000
2025
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$425,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support and one-time business plan development support
$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
$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
$60,000
2025
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and one-time capacity building support
$50,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$200,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
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
$20,000
2026
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$20,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$75,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
to support the Nonprofit Voice Panel to gather perspectives from nonprofit leaders across the country about funding, funders, and nonprofit needs
$10,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$10,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$10,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$50,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to develop and launch a family sustaining wage campaign in Minnesota
$670,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$15,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to acquire and expand Growth & Justice's products and research as that organization sunsets
$350,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support; to develop a community-rooted framework and white paper to drive economic justice and community ownership
$300,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$85,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support an inclusive process to assess how a land trust led by Black and Indigenous people can catalyze a transition to a regenerative economy, increase wealth access and intergenerational land stability