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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$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the launch of an Iowa Green Bank to access federal, state, and private finance to decarbonize Iowa's economy and to center equity in climate financing and planning
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement empowers people of all races to take control of their communities, identify problems and needs, and take action to address them, driving social, economic, and environmental justice.
$215,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support, and to support the Our Next Move project
$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Iowa Environmental Council's mission is to educate, advocate, and build coalitions to raise awareness, generate action and impact policy to make Iowa a better place to live, work, and explore.
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$200,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Iowa Farmers Union Education Foundation partners with farmers, landowners, and rural communities to advance climate-friendly farming solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, sequester carbon, and improve soil health.
$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support clean jobs and labor policy research in the Midwest and the Community Benefits Agreement Resource Center
$450,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - The Land Stewardship Project is a member-led, grassroots nonprofit that organizes farmers, rural community members, and other stakeholders to build a just, resilient, and environmentally sound food system.
$400,000
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
$575,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to provide legal support to states, localities, and community organizations in the Midwest to advance climate equity
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to enable cities to seek grant funding to make community improvements
$100,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to continue and expand ongoing climate, energy, and housing work in the Midwest
$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
$1,000,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build the capacity of member foundations in the Community Foundation Climate Collaborative’s Midwest Regional Action Network to implement climate and energy projects and to capitalize a revolving loan fund
$100,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Systems Based Investing Field Lab on Midwest Row Crop Diversification, a small three-day convening of private wealth owners and agriculture system transformation leaders to transform row crop production to diversified approaches
$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
$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
$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.
$500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support underserved communities in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, and its 35 tribes, through regranting, in addressing their most significant environmental justice, climate, and public health challenges
$500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build support for climate action in rural communities and to maximize federal funds going to Midwestern communities
$400,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Minneapolis Climate Action and Racial Equity Fund
$900,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build regional environmental justice capacity for collaboration, network building, and policy and projects related to climate, energy, health, and water justice in the Midwest
$250,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support grassroots organizing and rural climate solutions in the Midwest
$176,500
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Minneapolis Climate Action and Racial Equity Fund, a collaborative partnership to support local action on climate change in diverse communities
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support environmental justice organizations' capacity to advance decarbonization solutions that are rooted in the communities and focused on a just energy transition, health, and water justice
$140,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for the Minneapolis Climate Action and Racial Equity Fund, a collaborative partnership to support local action on climate change in diverse communities
$140,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Minneapolis Climate Action and Racial Equity Fund
$100,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support Phase II of Greater MSP’s federal funding initiative
$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
$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
$600,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for strategy leadership to transform the energy sector, decarbonize building, maximize implementation of new laws, and achieve equitable outcomes at the Public Utilities Commission
$500,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advocate for equitable climate action by Minnesota’s state and local governments
$200,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build MCEA’s capacity to advocate for equitable climate policy that will help Minnesota achieve its greenhouse gas reduction goals for the electricity, transportation, and agriculture sectors
$500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to empower family farmers to lead on climate action, developing and building support for farmer informed solutions that position agriculture to play a greater role in mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change
$300,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to empower family farmers to lead on climate action, developing and building support for farmer-informed solutions that position agriculture to play a greater role in mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change
$150,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support clean energy and energy efficiency adoption by farmers throughout the state of Minnesota
$300,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to engage Minnesota Public Radio’s audience on the topic of climate change
$400,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$160,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build power for climate justice in Minnesota
$200,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$1,025,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to dramatically curb carbon pollution in Minnesota by facilitating a shift from widespread driving to biking, walking, and transit use
$300,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to launch a long-term campaign to dramatically curb carbon pollution in Minnesota by facilitating a shift from widespread driving to biking, walking, and transit use
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support policy advocacy and advance a just energy transition in low wealth communities and in communities of color in Indiana
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to produce geospatial analysis, planning assets, procurement strategies, research and advocacy supporting transmission siting in the transportation right-of-way, in partnership with state transportation, energy agencies, and transmission developers
$25,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to continue NextGen Highways work with the Minnesota Department Of Transportation to advance electric transmission and electric vehicle charging
$25,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to evaluate the siting of high-voltage direct current transmission within existing highway right of way
$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support an ambitious initiative to advance climate mitigation and resiliency in the five national parks that surround Lake Superior
$150,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support – National Young Farmers Coalition is a grassroots organization that advocates for policies and practices to help young farmers overcome and dismantle the significant and systemic barriers they face.
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for climate organizing work at the national level for food and farm policies, and in key Midwest states
$50,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support Midwest Tribal Energy Equity Summit and technical assistance support to Midwest Tribal Nations
$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Native Sun Community Power Development is an Indigenous-led nonprofit focused on promoting energy sovereignty, environmental justice, and equitable energy transitions for Indigenous communities.
$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to shift federal and state transportation infrastructure investments to support public transit, sidewalks, safe streets, and EV charging infrastructure in the Midwest
$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the capacity building of Midwest rural-based organizations working at the intersection of climate, agriculture, economic justice, and racial equity
$50,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support NFG’s Integrated Rural Strategies Group to advance the Campaign to Support Black Farmers
$100,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support community organizing efforts across Illinois
$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to drive equitable building decarbonization in the Midwest through coalition building, codes and policy support, and market transformation
$40,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for support of equity components of the Getting to Zero Forum and the Next Gen Student Program
$200,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for development of the Advanced Water Heating Initiative in the Midwest region
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the recruitment of Midwestern institutions to the Climate Collaborative and to help community foundations across the Midwest develop a federal implementation strategy
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to ensure that communities have access to the resources they need to be effective self-advocates in the redistricting process
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support a coalition of community groups in Chicago to guide the implementation of the city’s zero emission policies for medium- and heavy-duty trucks
$200,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to identify and support efforts to help center communities and people in the redistricting process in Midwestern states, and create a national infrastructure to support fair maps in 2021
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - OEFFA is a network of farmers and allies working collaboratively toward a more resilient food and farming system and a key representative for Ohio in the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the continued development and dissemination of the Organizing the Midwest project
$850,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support – Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund is a donor collaborative that invests in organizations that are deeply committed to a long-term strategy of achieving a more equitable and inclusive democracy in Ohio
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - The Fund convenes a high-capacity group of donors concerned with maintaining a healthy democracy and advancing shared progressive priorities including an equitable clean energy transition.
$780,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support, and for capacity building
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the "Rethinking I-94 for Climate, Equity, and Access" project
$350,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support, and to support member organizations of People’s Action Institute in the Midwest to leverage federal funds for climate campaign victories
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support climate organizing through deep canvassing, moving thousands of midwesterners to take action on climate
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the launch of a climate-focused deep canvass to strengthen democratic participation in the Midwest
$30,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to expand access to electric vehicles and clean transportation through education and advocacy
$60,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to promote the consumer voice of electric vehicle owners and to advance transportation electrification in Minnesota and the Midwest
$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity for the Transportation Justice Coalition of grassroots organizations to influence federal transportation policy solutions, elevate place-based infrastructure justice best practices, and develop new mechanisms of collaborative governance
$500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to leverage loan guarantees to drive investment to BIPOC farming communities, food and farm businesses, and support building a regional cohort to drive demand for climate-smart practices in the Midwest
$1,000,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - to create a clean, prosperous future for Ohio by supporting local governments to create and advance climate plans that advance equitable, community-driven solutions to reduce carbon emissions
$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to empower farmers to educate other farmers and policymakers about the importance of climate-smart agriculture and improve climate-smart policy implementation
$70,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support an in-depth analysis of farmers and agricultural production practices in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin using data from government surveys, special tabulations, and other available sources
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support Black women leaders who are on the frontlines leading climate and racial justice efforts with cultivating well-being and building community power
$600,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support bold, ambitious, and equitable climate action change by providing legal technical assistance to community-based organizations and Tribal, state, and local governments in Minnesota and throughout the Midwest
$100,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support work on improving electric utility performance and bolstering electric competition, reducing barriers to distributed energy, and advancing grid-enhancing technologies in Minnesota and the broader Midwest
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support work on improving electric utility performance-based rates in Minnesota and bolster electric competition, reduce barriers to distributed energy, and advance grid-enhancing technologies in Minnesota and the broader Midwest
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support engagement in the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on multiple topics to drive renewable and distributed energy resource adoption in the Midwest
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support engagement in the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on multiple topics to drive renewable and distributed energy resource adoption in the Midwest