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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$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to communicate the importance of clean energy and clean energy jobs in the Midwest
$75,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the preparation, release, and promotion of the annual Clean Jobs Midwest report
$75,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the preparation, release, and promotion of the Clean Jobs Midwest report
$75,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the development and amplification of the Midwest clean energy jobs report
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support - Evergreen Collaborative works to advance an ambitious climate action agenda, combining policy development capacity with strategic communications to inform audiences.
$400,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$350,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$350,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support, and to connect state and federal decisionmakers and lift up stories from the Midwest
$100,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for the 2022 Distinguished Artist Award
$200,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support - Exodus Financial Services works with financially excluded Minnesotans to advance economic justice through consumer lending, community organizing, and advocacy.
$70,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support to develop, test, and spread equitable small-dollar consumer lending model through a network of statewide nonprofits reaching financially extracted and excluded Minnesotans
$50,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for anti-payday loan program for accelerating economic mobility
$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
$300,000
2024
Other Grantmaking
to advance pro-DEI narrative efforts through messaging, research, strategic communications, and engagement
$100,000
2019
Region & Communities
to grow an employer-led delivery system for increasing workforce diversity and raising incomes in communities in St. Paul and Minneapolis through health care career pathways employment
$5,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support the Saigu campaign
$25,000
2022
Other Grantmaking
to support the Mothers of Gynecology campus tours
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$350,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$1,000,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support the stabilization of affordable rental housing properties and providers
$3,000,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support to build a housing system that ensures equitable housing access, stability, and affordability for the Twin Cities region
$1,500,000
2022
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to build a housing system that ensures housing access, stability, and affordability for everyone
$35,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$615,000
2020
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
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
$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
2023
Arts & Culture
to grow and strengthen the Indigenous Arts Ecology in Minnesota
$300,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to grow and strengthen the Indigenous Arts Ecology in Minnesota
$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
$110,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$200,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
to support increased civic engagement and LGBTQ2IA+ leadership in Minnesota
$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
$60,000
2019
Region & Communities
to build community power, ownership, and wealth
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build public support for policies that reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and generate opposition to false climate solutions in Iowa, a key state for influencing national agricultural policy
$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
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Strengthening multi-stakeholder cooperation on Agroecology through integrated tools to enable transformative change
$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support reporting in the Midwest on climate change and agriculture, equity issues in agriculture, and worker issues in the food system including Midwest-based reporters and audio producers
$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
$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
$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to maximize effective, equitable investment in transportation electrification programs in the Midwest through program design, help for communities seeking funds, and implementation support
$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for the continued funding of the Towards Equitable Electric Mobility (TEEM) Community of Practice
$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to provide technical assistance to Midwest states, cities, and organizations in capturing and implementing federal funding for equitable transportation electrification programs in the Midwest
$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
$200,000
2023
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support to sustain and grow Fortis Capital’s activities increasing access to financial, knowledge, and social capital for BIPOC-owned businesses and businesses in economically challenged areas of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metro
$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
$75,000
2024
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support, and to support the public launch and community organizing for the Minnesota Promise campaign
$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
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support – Franconia provides artists the space, assistance, and funding to create and exhibit large-scale sculpture in the St. Croix River Valley.
$80,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$70,000
2023
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Frank Theatre is a professional theatre company committed to producing 2-3 unique works a year that stretch the skills of their artists while challenging the audience with social, political, and cultural concerns.
$110,000
2021
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$60,000
2019
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$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
$160,000
2021
Vibrant & Equitable Communities
for general operating support
$50,000
2024
Arts & Culture
for general operating support - Full Circle Theater Company creates transformative theater that centers marginalized perspectives, practices equity and access, and engages diverse artists and audiences in the creation of a more socially just world.
$90,000
2022
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$40,000
2020
Arts & Culture
for general operating support
$300,000
2023
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
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
$360,000
2022
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
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
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Strengthening of knowledge dialogue capacities and facilitation in projects of the CCRP-Andes Community of Practice
$39,000
2019
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
for Strengthening the CoP Andes capacity to facilitate dialogue
$340,000
2020
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Rural schools and smallholder agriculture in the Andes: an alliance for changing time
$170,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support - George Floyd Global Memorial exists to conserve stories of resistance to racial injustice and to curate spaces for all people to grieve, pay respect, and be a voice for justice.
$100,000
2021
Other Grantmaking
for general operating support
$600,000
2021
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Strengthening Climate-resilient Food Systems at the Territorial Level While Shifting Food System Policies
$100,000
2023
Other Grantmaking
to support the work of a funders' collaborative to prevent gun violence
$2,000,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to transform the transportation sector while centering equity, climate, and people
$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