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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$1,000,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support the acquisition, hold, sale of, and lending related to, a private equity housing portfolio project of 143 units
$750,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and to build capacity to facilitate more mission-based community development in the Twin Cities 7-County region
$500,000
2019
Region & Communities
for general operating support, and to support the Prosperity Possible Campaign
$300,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to steward climate justice planning and capacity building with Midwest BIPOC farmers
$300,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$50,000
2020
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$400,000
2019
Mississippi River
for general operating support
$90,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$90,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$90,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$453,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
To expand and strengthen the achievements, recovering learnings and experiences, and to consolidate the community of knowledge and practice
$500,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support to build LEDC’s operational and lending capacity to provide business development and equitable lending services for Minnesota’s Latino-owned and BIPOC-owned businesses grow and build community wealth
$15,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support in recognition of LEDC’s engagement in GroundBreak Coalition work groups
$280,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$77,000
2020
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support, and to help cover costs associated with CARES Act funding
$185,000
2019
Region & Communities
for general operating support, and for project support to help build organizational capacity
$100,000
2019
Education
for general operating support
$140,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$75,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$300,000
2023
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
to develop and test a model for facilitating participatory, holistic agroecological landscape management in Northern and Central Malawi
$225,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Strengthening farmer-managed seed systems for improved seed quality and access to preferred varieties in Malawi
$370,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
to support farmer research networks and multi environmental trials for soil health, productivity of maize-legume farming systems and livelihoods
$50,000
2020
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
LUANAR Connectivity Improvement project
$310,000
2019
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Strengthening farmer-managed seed systems for improved seed quality and access to preferred varieties in Malawi
$135,000
2019
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
for Applying participatory decision-making processes to support smallholder farmers actions for nutrition-sensitive and sustainable local agri-food systems
$50,000
2022
Arts & Culture
to support the Little Earth Native Culture Bearer Residency program
$750,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support, and to support the Center of Excellence for Equitable and Resilient Wealth Building
$250,000
2019
Region & Communities
for general operating support
$100,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the Minneapolis public safety and resilience initiative
$300,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to provide capacity building, technical assistance, and increase access to capital for more economic inclusion and housing, helping the region meet local challenges
$1,000,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to increase the availability of and access to quality affordable housing throughout the state of Minnesota
$2,600,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the operations of LISC Twin Cities
$15,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support in recognition of LISC Twin Cities' participation in GroundBreak coalition work groups
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
to support Local Initiatives Support Corporation - Twin Cities (LISC Twin Cities) operations
$2,000,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and to advance an equitable recovery by linking community partners together to transform neighborhoods through affordable housing, arts and culture, economic development, and financial tools
$350,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for operating and program support to advance economic mobility, build wealth, and increase capacity and BIPOC leadership, for equitable and inclusive community and economic development in Duluth
$2,400,000
2019
Region & Communities
to help people thrive in the places they love by accelerating affordable housing production/preservation and advancing equitable economic development and family financial stability, and for general operating support
$200,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$140,000
2019
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
for Applying participatory decision-making processes to support smallholder farmers' actions for nutrition-sensitive and sustainable local agri-food systems
$375,000
2019
Mississippi River
for general operating support
$350,000
2019
Region & Communities
to design and build Wakan Tipi Center at Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary and create a $1 million operating reserve for the Center
$100,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Lower Sioux Indian Community has a strategic plan, mission, and values grounded and guided by Dakota Culture , traditions, and language and will bring a native perspective to Surge Fund learning.
$50,000
2023
Arts & Culture
to support cultural programming at the Intergenerational Cultural Incubator at Lower Sioux
$300,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support, to support arts programming at the Intergenerational Cultural Incubator at Lower Sioux, to close the final gap in the incubator capital budget, and to help sustain the newly established tribal education department
$100,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for capital funds to help build a 15,950 square-foot Intergenerational Cultural Incubator at Lower Sioux
$100,000
2019
Other Grantmaking
to expand capacity of the Sioux tribe to uphold its inherent sovereignty through community-based language and education
$150,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$546,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for the McKnight Artist Fellowships for musicians
$542,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for the McKnight Artist Fellowships for musicians
$150,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$300,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to drive the fundamental transformation of corporate behavior through investor-led accountability campaigns at climate-critical companies necessary to decarbonize the U.S. energy system
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to drive the fundamental transformation of corporate behavior through investor-led accountability campaigns at climate-critical companies necessary to decarbonize the U.S. energy system
$150,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to drive wholesale transformation of fossil fuel-intensive and fossil adjacent companies through investor-led accountability campaigns that involve high-level investor organizing and partnerships with racial justice and climate activist organizations
$150,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support investor-led accountability efforts in the Midwest through the Climate Majority Project
$40,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$800,000
2023
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
to support the Regen10 initiative
$1,200,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
to support core capacity for a strategic alliance of philanthropic foundations
$98,000
2020
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
to provide critical seed money to support the adoption of Blue Marble Evaluation as part of the UNFSS, and to consider innovative ways to support a broad, global, inclusive, all-of-society engagement process
$960,000
2019
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Transforming Food Systems Together
$90,000
2019
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Improving Soil Health through a Global Community of Practice and Continental Action Plans
$100,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$100,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support employment efforts on the east side of Saint Paul
$150,000
2019
Region & Communities
to build capacity to engage property owners and renters in areas of historical disinvestment, including affordable housing, and in SE Minnesota’s urban areas, in redesigning outdoor spaces for stormwater best management practices and pollinator habitat
$525,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and to support housing cooperative research
$15,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support in recognition of MCCD’s engagement in GroundBreak Coalition work groups
$150,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to create and maintain affordable housing and commercial space for Northside residents
$325,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and for capacity building for community wealth work
$75,000
2020
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$1,000,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build capacity for the Access To Capital 2025 Initiative
$100,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for a landscape assessment project to solidify regional infrastructure partners, secure funders for program and business acquisition, get corporate buyer commitment, and formally launch a concept to transfer business ownership to potential BIPOC owners
$15,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support in recognition Metropolitan Economic Development Association's participation in the GroundBreak Coalition's work groups
$1,000,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to seed the 10,000 Black Businesses Initiative and invest in Black entrepreneurship
$240,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and for one time organizational capacity building to increase lending
$77,000
2020
Other Grantmaking
to provide recovery and retooling technical assistance to BIPOC-owned businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and to attract much needed capital to provide bridge financing to BIPOC-owned businesses in position to survive the downturn, and CARES Act
$400,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists and culture bearers
$500,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for regranting support for the Seeding Cultural Treasures Fund for Individual Artists and Culture Bearers
$400,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$400,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$50,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the 2024 collaborative Michigan Redistricting process
$250,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the launch of an Indiana Green Bank to access federal, state, and private finance to decarbonize Indiana’s economy and to center equity in climate financing and planning
$30,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Strengthening farmer-managed seed systems for improved seed quality and access to preferred varieties in Malawi
$36,000
2019
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
for Strengthening farmer-managed seed systems for improved seed quality and access to preferred varieties in Malawi
$96,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to create asset building opportunities for low-income Minnesotans, reduce systemic barriers to economic mobility, and advance racial equity
$100,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to create asset building opportunities for low-income Minnesotans, reduce systemic barriers to economic mobility, and advance racial equity
$40,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
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
$480,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support start-up costs for a statewide First-Generation Homebuyers Down Payment Assistance Fund to reduce the racial homeownership gap, for individuals who lack generational wealth and without assistance would not achieve homeownership
$200,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to advance CDFI support
$100,000
2019
Mississippi River
for general operating support
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Midwest Tribal Energy Resources Association works to build joint infrastructure to support the Midwest Tribal Nations seeking federal funding for clean energy projects.
$200,000
2019
Region & Communities
to support restructure and capacity building for Green Jobs and First Person Productions
$120,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$120,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$111,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for program work with artists as facilitators, culture bearers, and cultural practitioners who use art as an agent to coalesce people, amplify historically silenced narratives, and use the collective power to create a more healthy, just world
$111,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for program support
$140,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for support of Two Rivers Gallery and capital renovations
$40,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for the Two Rivers Gallery and Community Arts Program
$450,000
2019
Other Grantmaking
to renovate and expand MAIC’s facility on Franklin Avenue in south Minneapolis
$833,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for a fellowship program for mid-career visual artists in Minnesota
$150,000
2019
Region & Communities
for general operating support
$180,000
2019
Region & Communities
to advance transit and transportation infrastructure investment in the state of Minnesota by engaging the new Administration and Legislature along with business, civic, and labor leaders
$150,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support - This organization, also known as Greater MSP, works to advance racial equity and accelerate the growth of quality jobs in the 15-county metro area
$155,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
to support Greater MSP’s efforts to identify and connect federal resources to regional economic and equitable development goals, and to support Greater MSP/Itasca’s event “Building Momentum: Housing Innovation and Progress in our Region”
$240,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to deepen efforts to develop market transformation and commercialization strategies for the cash cover crop “winter camelina” and drive successful adoption of nutrient management, cover cropping, and longer crop rotations in the Red River Valley
$75,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support two soil health initiatives in Minnesota
$600,000
2019
Region & Communities
for general operating support, and for regional goal setting
$200,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for the Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program
$500,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support the Minnesota Department of Health Safe Harbor Program for the prevention and mitigation of human trafficking
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the start of the Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program's Climate Smart Farms Project
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to create a Minnesota action plan for scaling up the adoption of soil health management practices that mitigate the impacts of climate change and increase landscape resiliency
$10,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
for an initiative to eliminate human trafficking in Minnesota
$300,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build capacity for incarcerated students in Minnesota to access federal Pell grant dollars and help reduce a systemic barrier to economic mobility, a college degree
$90,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$45,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for general operating support