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20 Theatre Company Twin Cities

1 Grant

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Minneapolis, MN

$15,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Access Philanthropy Charities

1 Grant

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Minneapolis, MN

$50,000
2021
Arts & Culture
to uplift Black artists working toward better Black futures

African Economic Development Solutions

1 Grant

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St Paul, MN

$40,000
2023
Arts & Culture
to plan and pilot programming and build new facility for increased artistic opportunities for African immigrant and next generation artists so they can catalyze the leadership, power, and creativity of artists and culture bearers

Alliance of Artists Communities

2 Grants

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Providence, RI

$933,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for a residency consortium fellowship program for McKnight Artist Fellows
$720,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for designing and implementing a residency consortium fellowship program for McKnight Artist Fellows

American Composers Forum

3 Grants

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St. Paul, MN

$625,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for the McKnight Artist Fellowships for composers and for a visiting composer artists residency program
$622,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for the McKnight Artist Fellowships for composers
$400,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Ananya Dance Theatre

3 Grants

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St. Paul, MN

$150,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and capacity building - Ananya Dance Theatre is an internationally acclaimed professional dance company led by femmes and women of color who create original works at the intersection of environmental and social justice.
$100,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$100,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Arcata Press

3 Grants

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Saint Paul, MN

$80,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Arcata Press is a literary organization with an overarching goal to bring untold stories into the public realm, and to connect communities across cultures and generations through story.
$80,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$80,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

ARENA Dances

2 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$75,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and capacity building support; and for capacity to convene and moderate discussions among the Twin Cities dance community following the abrupt closure of the Cowles Center and Goodale Theater
$90,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Arrowhead Regional Arts Council

2 Grants

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Duluth, MN

$270,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists and culture bearers
$180,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists

Artistry

2 Grants

$50,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$30,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Arts Center of Saint Peter

2 Grants

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View Impact Story

St. Peter MN 56082, MN

$40,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$80,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Artspace Projects

3 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$100,000
2024
Arts & Culture
to delay the Go Dark Date for The Cowles Center for Dance and Performing Arts beyond January 31, 2024 and through March 2024
$160,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Artspace Projects is a real estate developer that creates, fosters, and preserves affordable live/work space for artists and arts organizations.
$160,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Ballet CO-Laboratory

2 Grants

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Saint Paul, MN

$40,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Ballet Co.Laboratory cultivates a progressive, daring, and collaborative ballet organization that challenges the historical aspects of the art form.
$40,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Ballet Works

1 Grant

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Minneapolis, MN

$150,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Bemidji Community Arts Council

2 Grants

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Bemidji, MN

$40,000
2023
Arts & Culture
to support the Miikanan Gallery, a native-focused gallery space inside Watermark Art Center in Bemidji, MN
$30,000
2021
Arts & Culture
to support Miikanan Gallery's work focused on Indigenous creativity of the region

Black Label Movement

3 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$55,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and for leadership development support
$90,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Brownbody

3 Grants

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Vadnais Heights, MN

$100,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and capacity building - Brownbody is a figure skating performing arts company that activates on-ice storytelling from the African diaspora.
$60,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$69,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Cantus

1 Grant

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Minneapolis, MN

$120,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Catalyst Arts

2 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$70,000
2022
Arts & Culture
to support Catalyst programming
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for capacity building support

Center for Hmong Arts & Talent

3 Grants

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St. Paul, MN

$50,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Center for Hmong Arts and Talent supports Hmong artists by paying artists for various projects, by organizing workshops for artists, and by creating a space for artists to network and support each other.
$100,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$50,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Central Minnesota Arts Board

2 Grants

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Foley, MN

$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

Centro Regional para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de America Latina

1 Grant

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Cusco, Peru

$100,000
2023
Arts & Culture
to support work that centers the leadership of artists and culture bearers

Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center

2 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$75,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support and capital support
$30,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Coffee House Press

3 Grants

$120,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Coffee House Press is an independent literary press known for publishing work, producing programming, and championing unheard and underrepresented authors.
$120,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$120,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Commonweal Theatre Company

2 Grants

$50,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$50,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown

1 Grant

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Johnstown, PA

$100,000
2023
Arts & Culture
to support work toward an equitable economic transition for the Appalachian region and to work with coalition partners to connect cultural stories into the economic development framework

Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio

3 Grants

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St. Paul, MN

$100,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for programs supporting artists and culture bearers
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for capital support to plan for new cultural center for Latino arts on Lake Street in Minneapolis
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for ongoing support of Latino artists and community arts initiatives

Contemporary Dance Arts

1 Grant

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Minneapolis, MN

$125,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

CRAFT Institute

1 Grant

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Lexington, MA

$20,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for a travel exchange pilot program for Minnesota artists

Creative Minnesota

1 Grant

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Saint Paul, MN

$500,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Creative MN works to build towards renewal of the Legacy Amendment, using reports and data from the past ten years that show the power and vibrancy of the arts and culture sector in Minnesota.

Crow River Players Inc.

2 Grants

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New London, MN

$60,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Crow River Players dba Little Theater Auditorium is an artist-led center for art experimentation, a creative home for the community, and a host for artists in rural southwestern Minnesota.
$90,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Dakota Wicohan

3 Grants

$140,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support – Dakota Wicohan preserves and rejuvenates traditional Dakota culture, concentrating on language.
$140,000
2021
Arts & Culture
to support the expansion of the Tawokaga (Making Beautiful Things) art program to support more Indigenous artists in our community
$70,000
2019
Arts & Culture
to support Indigenous artists in our community

Department of Public Transformation

2 Grants

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Granite Falls, MN

$200,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - DoPT is an artist-led organization that works to develop creative strategies for increased community connection, civic engagement, and equitable participation in rural places in Minnesota and across the country.
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for capital support to renovate a building in Granite Falls for artists and community use

Dipankar Mukherjee

1 Grant

Minneapolis, MN

$100,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for the 2023 Distinguished Artist Award

Dream of Wild Health

2 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$100,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Dream of Wild Health runs a 30-acre farm, native fruit orchard, and pollinator meadow and is leading an inter-tribal vision toward Indigenous food sovereignty.
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Duluth Art Institute Association

4 Grants

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Duluth, MN

$165,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for capital support to assist with costs associated with moving locations and with extensive damage to a failed stairway at a building owned by DAI
$80,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Duluth Playhouse

2 Grants

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Duluth, MN

$90,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support of a year-round main stage season, children's theatre series, second stage season, and an education program for youth and adults
$90,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Duluth-Superior Symphony Association

3 Grants

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Duluth, MN

$50,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - DSSO is a professional symphonic organization with annual programs that leverage the talents of its musicians and increase the audience for symphonic music in the Arrowhead region of Greater Minnesota.
$55,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

East Central Regional Arts Council

3 Grants

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Hinckley, MN

$150,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists and culture bearers
$84,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$84,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists

Ely Folk School

1 Grant

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Ely, MN

$40,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - The Ely Folk School builds community, provides learning experiences and celebrates the wilderness, heritage, art, history, culture, and craft of the people in rural, northern Minnesota.

Ewart, Douglas

1 Grant

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Minneapolis, MN

$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for the 2022 Distinguished Artist Award

Exposed Brick Theatre

2 Grants

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St. Paul, MN

$60,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Exposed Brick Theatre supports Black, indigenous, and people of color theater artists to create new works and tell their unique, authentic stories, producing work at spaces throughout the Twin Cities.
$90,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Fargo-Moorhead Opera Company

2 Grants

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Fargo, ND

$35,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

FilmNorth

4 Grants

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St. Paul, MN

$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

First Peoples Fund

1 Grant

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Rapid City, SD

$300,000
2023
Arts & Culture
to grow and strengthen the Indigenous Arts Ecology in Minnesota

Five Wings Arts Council

3 Grants

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Staples, MN

$138,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists and culture bearers
$92,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$92,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists

Foci Minnesota Center for Glass Arts

2 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$60,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support for an organization that provides support structures of training and education, specialty equipment, and a sales gallery to glass artists working in glass blowing, casting, fusing, neon bending, and coldworking
$40,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support

Forecast Public Artworks

4 Grants

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Saint Paul, MN

$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
$144,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$196,000
2021
Arts & Culture
to support a grant program for Minnesota mid-career public artists

Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota

2 Grants

Staples, MN

$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
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