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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$450,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support in recognition of ABFE’s 50th anniversary and continued impact on the field
$100,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
in recognition of ABFE's 50th anniversary campaign, general support to strengthen Black-led social change organizations to build political and economic power
$150,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to create a statewide diverse news service for members of Minnesota's BIPOC and disability communities to share their own stories, experiences, and perspectives with their communities and all Minnesotans
$50,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
to support Minnesota's Racial Equity in Reporting Project
$160,000
2019
Mississippi River
for general operating support
$50,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to provide capacity building support in the continued development and execution of the Buildings Hub data analysis platform
$150,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$150,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$150,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$80,000
2019
Region & Communities
to support leadership development and provide programs that build civic engagement and representative democracy for women across Minnesota, particularly Somali and East African women
$40,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$150,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$80,000
2019
Education
to build capacity of parents to advocate for students and schools at the board, state, and legislative levels, and for general operating support
$15,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support in recognition of Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative's participation in the GroundBreak Coalition's work groups
$350,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and to grow the capacity of the Bring it Home Minnesota campaign to organize a statewide base working towards guaranteeing rent subsidies for all households that qualify
$250,000
2019
Region & Communities
for general operating support, and to build capacity in advancing equitable housing policies statewide
$30,000
2021
Arts & Culture
to support Miikanan Gallery's work focused on Indigenous creativity of the region
$45,000
2018
Arts & Culture
to support the Miikanan Gallery
$50,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to update Bemidji State University’s Climate Action Plan
$250,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$300,000
2019
Region & Communities
for general operating and project support to continue advancing active transportation and safe routes to school and to explore active transportation related greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies and business initiatives in the Twin Cities
$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
$90,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Black Appalachian Coalition
$100,000
2019
Education
for support of an aspiring teaching fellow internship and the implementation of a Breakthrough Collaborative Salesforce data management system
$15,000
2018
Education
to plan for pathways into teaching licensure programs for LearningWorks' racially, linguistically, and culturally diverse teaching fellows
$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
$85,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
to continue engagement of stakeholders in clean economic transition plans across Minnesota
$20,000
2018
Mississippi River
for general operating support
$500,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support Black leaders in Minnesota to effectively respond to our current moment and the future and to support the SOAR effort
$850,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
to support Black leaders in Minnesota to build relational trust, shared analysis, and strategies that equip leaders to effectively respond to our current moment and the future
$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
$100,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
to support the Emerging LGBTQ+ Leaders of Color Fund
$100,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund by joining as a learning partner
$100,000
2019
Education
for general operating support
$60,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$69,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$15,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support in recognition of Build Wealth Minnesota's contribution to the GroundBreak Coalition's work groups
$1,000,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for lending and seed capital for the 9000 Equities Targeted Mortgage Program
$300,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Thermal Utility Reform Initiative and launch thermal network pilot projects in the Midwest
$200,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$75,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$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
$32,000
2019
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
$100,000
2019
Mississippi River
for general operating support
$120,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$400,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$150,000
2020
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$95,000
2020
International
Blue Marble Infrastructure Phase 2
$70,000
2022
Arts & Culture
to support Catalyst programming
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for capacity building support
$70,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for support of Catalyst programming
$150,000
2019
Region & Communities
to support advocacy work through the Office for Social Justice to advance strategies to eliminate disparities, improve equity, and ensure basic needs, including homes for all
$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
$20,000
2018
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Climate Forum to create equitable climate policy ideas and identify pathways for inclusive national climate policy development
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Small Town Summit
$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
$75,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
to increase access to energy efficiency programs by underrepresented populations through a peer-learning network of community organizations and redesigning efficiency programs
$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
$1,000,000
2019
Region & Communities
for general operating support
$75,000
2019
Education
to support the Northside Funders Group in improving the quality of education delivered in North Minneapolis by increasing parent engagement and influence
$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
$10,000
2020
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$10,000
2019
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$20,000
2018
Other Grantmaking
to support a research project to explore private and community foundation leaders’ perspectives about foundation efforts to influence public policy at the national, state, and local levels
$425,000
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
$500,000
2018
Midwest Climate & Energy
to extend and defend Minnesota's energy efficiency framework and to accelerate the evolution to a decarbonized grid in Minnesota and the Midwest, and for general operating support
$100,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$50,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$195,000
2018
International
to facilitate shared governance and secure community access to natural resources in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
$300,000
2019
Mississippi River
for general operating support
$100,000
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
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
$610,000
2019
Mississippi River
to support the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and efforts to improve Midwest water quality and climate change mitigation through federal agriculture and conservation policies, and to support a Farm Bill education event in Minneapolis
$340,000
2019
Mississippi River
to advance a set of state and federal policy outcomes that improve water quality and reduce agricultural pollution in Iowa and surrounding states, and for general operating support
$250,000
2018
Other Grantmaking
to build power and capacity through clean energy organizing in rural Iowa and Minnesota communities
$300,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support and one-time business plan development support
$300,000
2018
MN Initiative Foundations/Rural
for general operating support
$20,000
2022
International
for a feasibility study for the development of a Python-based platform for evaluating crop/pest systems globally
$155,000
2018
International
to strengthen public capacity and understanding for promoting vital link between environment and socio-economic development in Vietnam
$200,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$200,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$450,000
2022
International
Feeding the soil and feeding the cow to feed the people: co-designing agro-sylvo-pastoral systems in sudano-sahelian Burkina Faso
$386,000
2020
International
CowpeaSquare 2: Co-designing and scaling-up of cropping systems through the integration of decentralized varietal selection and agroecological crop management options