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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$25,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support the Mothers of Gynecology campus tours
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$250,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$1,500,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build a housing system that ensures housing access, stability, and affordability for everyone
$7,000,000
2018
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$35,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$615,000
2020
International
What Works Where and for Whom: Improved systems to undertake Option by Context Studies for Agro-Ecological Intensification through Right-N trials
$100,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
for general operating and capacity building
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to help Midwest communities leverage federal funding and equitably transition to clean energy
$593,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for the McKnight Artist Fellowships for media artists
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for a capital campaign
$240,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$585,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for the McKnight Artist Fellowships for media artists
$300,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to grow and strengthen the Indigenous Arts Ecology in Minnesota
$150,000
2019
Arts & Culture
to grow and strengthen the Indigenous Arts Ecology in Minnesota serving the entrepreneurial development and community leadership needs of Native artists
$110,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2018
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$105,000
2019
Arts & Culture
to support the organization's capital funding project to move into a fully accessible facility, and for general operating support
$60,000
2019
Region & Communities
to build community power, ownership, and wealth
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support a grassroots organizing campaign to increase public support for policies that would reduce agricultural climate emissions and generate opposition to false solutions in Iowa
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for base-building, organizing, and bolstering narrative-shifting strategies to address methane from agriculture and factory farm biogas, and to increase support for a more just, sustainable, and climate-smart agriculture policy in Iowa and nationally
$480,000
2023
International
Strengthening multi-stakeholder cooperation on Agroecology through integrated tools to enable transformative change
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support FERN’s reporting in the Midwest on climate change and agriculture, equity issues in agriculture, and worker issues in the food system
$100,000
2019
Mississippi River
to support a multiplatform investigation into the conflicts between large-scale animal production facilities and rural communities, examining the opposition to these facilities through a strong environmental justice lens, and for general operating support
$196,000
2023
Arts & Culture
to support a grant program for Minnesota mid-career public artists
$140,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$196,000
2021
Arts & Culture
to support a grant program for Minnesota mid-career public artists
$144,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity, deepen relationships between equity focused and traditional organizations, and advance equitable electric mobility
$200,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity, create stronger relationships between equity focused and mainstream organizations, and advance equitable electric mobility
$200,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build the capacity of equity organizations and environmental advocates to work together towards equitable transportation electrification
$15,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support in recognition of Fortis Capital’s participation in GroundBreak coalition's work groups
$135,000
2022
Arts & Culture
to educate, empower, and strengthen the Forum through a statewide project to help transform the Regional Arts Council's individually and as a system to be more equitable and work to decrease historic inequities
$90,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for the RAC Forum's FY20-21 Statewide Project to help transform the RAC's individually and as a system to be more equitable and work to decrease historic inequities
$200,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$35,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to create the second research report documenting the contributions and impact of Black women leaders in philanthropy
$80,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$110,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$500,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Midwest Building Decarbonization Coalition’s efforts to develop and implement equitable strategies to achieve zero emissions from the Midwestern building sector by 2050
$4,000,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to move Minnesota and the Midwest toward dramatic near-term reductions in carbon pollution through equity-centered policy work, partnerships, and innovation
$1,987,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to move Minnesota and the Midwest toward dramatic reductions in carbon pollution in the near term
$20,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support the TESTIFY: Americana from Slavery to Today exhibit at the Hennepin County Library
$140,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for continued support of the Sinfonia’s New Works by Minnesota-Based Composers program, and for general operating support
$250,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$500,000
2019
Mississippi River
for general operating support
$25,000
2018
International
to provide legal support to indigenous communities experiencing eviction and land loss in eastern Cambodia
$160,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$120,000
2019
Region & Communities
for general operating and project support
$90,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$300,000
2023
International
Womens fields IV: Building on the FUMA-FRN for a farmer-centered agro-ecological transition amidst the challenges of food insecurity and climate change in the Maradi region of Niger
$442,000
2019
International
Women's fields-III: Refining FUMA Gaskiya's farmer research network approach with special emphasis on co-creation and data sharing with farmers
$409,000
2019
International
Promoting agroecological consumption in Cochabamba, Bolivia
$360,000
2022
International
Case study research, Enabling rural farm enterprises to improve local livelihoods and increase ecosystem services; and to enable a farmer research network to validate agroecological options that respond to local context
$90,000
2021
International
Strengthening of knowledge dialogue capacities and facilitation in projects of the CCRP-Andes Community of Practice
$39,000
2019
International
for Strengthening the CoP Andes capacity to facilitate dialogue
$300,000
2020
International
Rural schools and smallholder agriculture in the Andes: an alliance for changing time
$100,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$600,000
2021
International
Strengthening Climate-resilient Food Systems at the Territorial Level While Shifting Food System Policies
$450,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support local- and community-driven clean transportation solutions in the Midwest
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance clean, reliable, and safe transportation through local sustainability and equitable mobility solutions
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support mobility advocacy groups working towards the development of sustainable mobility and equitable access in the Midwestern region
$100,000
2020
Other Grantmaking
to provide matching funds for Twin Cities organizations receiving federal stimulus funds to provide reliable and safe transportation for essential workers
$100,000
2019
Region & Communities
to build on the successful model of the East Side xChange and Goodwill's integrated participation in this collaborative, to connect employers to potential employees on the East Side
$40,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$80,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$80,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$50,000
2020
Arts & Culture
to acquire and renovate two new buildings to expand and improve programming
$50,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$180,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$75,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to produce a festival focused on educating and informing the public about the impacts of climate change
$75,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to educate and inform the public about the impacts of climate change during the Great Northern Winter Festival
$75,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
to launch a festival of ideas focused on educating and informing the public about the impacts of climate change
$1,200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to engage and support interested and affected parties toward equitably implementing the 100% clean energy legislation and reducing emissions from the building, energy, and transportation sectors
$1,460,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$250,000
2020
Other Grantmaking
to support the States Energy Collaborative federal stimulus and equitable recovery efforts
$230,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to accelerate local climate action, at scale, by providing technical assistance, capacity, and tools to local governments
$1,000,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$100,000
2018
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support modeling the impacts of a Midwest Low-Carbon Fuel Standard
$320,000
2018
Midwest Climate & Energy
to assist Minnesota communities in achieving their own climate action and energy goals
$300,000
2019
Mississippi River
to improve water quality in the Mississippi River watershed by expanding the geographic footprint and scope of Great River Greening’s community-led restoration efforts, and for general operating support
$200,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to transform traditional recruitment and retention approaches by developing internal capacity within companies to interact with potential and new employees differently
$1,750,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to advance the creation/preservation of affordable housing for urban, rural, and Native communities by mobilizing capital, building public will, increasing community engagement, empowering local leaders, creating housing solutions, and advancing policy
$365,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build a regional approach to housing systems transformation rooted in prevention strategies by co-creating three regional accountability tables of stakeholders in Greater Minnesota, led by those with lived experience with housing instability
$10,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to engage a "Qualified Neutral" mediator and facilitator to lead a "Qualified Problem Solving Process" for State of Minnesota and local government staff charged with administering federal funding for emergency rental assistance
$9,500,000
2018
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support