OVERVIEW: The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation supports housing, human services, education, legal aid, and arts and culture. Its giving focuses on geographic areas served by its parent law firm. IP TAKE: This is a relationship-driven funder that … [Read more...] about Dorsey & Whitney Foundation
Minnesota Grants
Dekko Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Dekko Foundation supports early childhood development, K-12 education, career exploration, youth philanthropy, civic engagement, arts education and community development in select counties in Alabama, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota. IP … [Read more...] about Dekko Foundation
Old National Bank Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Old National Bank Foundation supports affordable housing, workforce development, economic development and financial empowerment in communities across Old National Bank’s Midwest and Southeast footprint. It prioritizes programs serving … [Read more...] about Old National Bank Foundation
FM Area Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Fargo Moorhead Area Foundation supports arts and culture, basic human needs, community building, education in select regions of North Dakota and Minnesota. IP TAKE: Describing itself as “a tremendous example of what good can be … [Read more...] about FM Area Foundation
Alex Stern Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Alex Stern Family Foundation supports the arts, social welfare, human services, education, youth recreation, civic projects, and health in the Fargo-Moorhead area of North Dakota and Minnesota. IP TAKE: The Alex Stern Family … [Read more...] about Alex Stern Family Foundation
George Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: Based in Minneapolis, the George Family Foundation supports whole-person health and wellbeing, leadership development, youth, spirituality and inner life, the environment, and community-based work including democracy, journalism, social … [Read more...] about George Family Foundation
J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Foundation
OVERVIEW: The J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Foundation supports education, health, arts and culture, and other charitable causes. Although the foundation is based in West Palm Beach, Florida, Chicago remains an important center of its grantmaking. … [Read more...] about J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Foundation
Playwrights’ Center
OVERVIEW: The Playwrights’ Center supports playwrights in all stages of their careers. The state of Minnesota is an area of grantmaking priority. IP TAKE: The Playwrights’ Center focuses on “inclusive theater-making” and envisions “an equitable, … [Read more...] about Playwrights’ Center
Best Buy Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Best Buy Foundation supports nonprofit organizations that help young people build technology skills, gain career experience and prepare for tech-enabled careers. It also maintains place-based grantmaking programs in the Twin Cities and … [Read more...] about Best Buy Foundation
United States Artists
OVERVIEW: United States Artists provides unrestricted grants and professional support to artists and cultural practitioners across the United States and its island jurisdictions. Its flagship fellowship supports 10 creative disciplines, while … [Read more...] about United States Artists
Voqal Partners
OVERVIEW: Voqal's grants, fellowships and impact investments support social justice work across a range of thematic areas. Grants offer unrestricted funding to community and grassroots organizations. IP TAKE: Voqal Partners is a progressive funder … [Read more...] about Voqal Partners
Van Sloun Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Van Sloun Foundation is a low-profile family foundation based in Marion, Massachusetts, with grantmaking interests spanning education, environmental and animal causes, health and human services. IP TAKE: The Van Sloun Foundation is a … [Read more...] about Van Sloun Foundation
Travelers Insurance Foundation and Corporate Giving
OVERVIEW: The Travelers Insurance Company supports education, community development, and arts and culture. This funder emphasizes the greater Hartford, Connecticut and St. Paul, Minnesota areas. IP TAKE: Travelers philanthropic giving reflects its … [Read more...] about Travelers Insurance Foundation and Corporate Giving
Otto Bremer Trust
OVERVIEW: The Otto Bremer Trust supports organizations working to improve quality of life in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and Wisconsin. IP TAKE: The Otto Bremer Trust is a regional powerhouse that has invested more than $1 billion in the … [Read more...] about Otto Bremer Trust
McKnight Foundation
OVERVIEW: The McKnight Foundation is a Minnesota-based funder that supports work in its home state and throughout the Midwest, as well as neuroscience research across the U.S. and agroecology work in select countries in Africa and South America. Its … [Read more...] about McKnight Foundation
GHR Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Minneapolis-based GHR Foundation supports Alzheimer’s prevention, the global Catholic Church, Catholic education and select local initiatives in the Twin Cities. IP TAKE: GHR is a laser-focused funder. While GHR is a large, it's a … [Read more...] about GHR Foundation
Anderson Center
OVERVIEW: The Anderson Center offers two-week and one-month residency programs to artists working in a diverse range of disciplines. IP TAKE: The Anderson Center welcomes artists "who are divers in every way" from anywhere in the world to its two- … [Read more...] about Anderson Center
Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Andersen Foundation supports health, human services education and more, focusing on Minneapolis and Minnesota. IP TAKE: The Fred C. & Katherine B. Andersen Foundation is a sizable regional funder with deep roots in the St. Croix … [Read more...] about Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation
Nordson Corporation Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Nordson Corporation Foundation broadly supports community development, early childhood development and education, human welfare, the arts and community enrichment in regions of the United States where it has a corporate presence. IP … [Read more...] about Nordson Corporation Foundation
Northwest Area Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Northwest Area Foundation supports community-led organizations advancing racial, social and economic justice across Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon, as well as the 76 Native nations … [Read more...] about Northwest Area Foundation
Xcel Energy Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Xcel Energy Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Xcel Energy, a Minneapolis-based electric and natural gas utility. The foundation supports communities across the company’s eight-state service territory: Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, … [Read more...] about Xcel Energy Foundation
Cargill Inc. & Cargill Foundation
OVERVIEW: Cargill supports sustainable agriculture, food security, water access, childhood nutrition, education and community development in places where the company operates. Its giving flows through several distinct channels, including corporate … [Read more...] about Cargill Inc. & Cargill Foundation
General Mills Corporate Philanthropy
OVERVIEW: General Mills supports communities through targeted grants, food donations, employee giving and volunteerism. Its current philanthropic priorities include food security, belonging and inclusion, local community impact, Minneapolis-area … [Read more...] about General Mills Corporate Philanthropy
Target Foundation & Corporate Giving
OVERVIEW: Target’s philanthropy has several moving parts, so grantseekers will need distinguish between them, outlined below. Funding supports a range of interests from local, national and international interests, as well as economic opportunity and … [Read more...] about Target Foundation & Corporate Giving
Bush Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Bush Foundation supports community improvement, capacity building, human services, public benefit, arts and culture, education, environment, health, and media and communication in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. IP TAKE: … [Read more...] about Bush Foundation
Jerome Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Jerome Foundation supports individual artists and arts organizations of all kinds in Minnesota and New York City, with additional grants especially for film and video production. IP TAKE: The Jerome Foundation is a respected arts … [Read more...] about Jerome Foundation
Midwest Writing Center
OVERVIEW: Midwest Writing Center supports writers, students and others throughout the Midwest with events, contests and projects related to writing and publishing. It prioritizes writers from the states of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, but … [Read more...] about Midwest Writing Center
Medica Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Medica Foundation makes grants for behavioral health, children’s health and health organizations serving rural areas. Grants are currently limited to organizations in Minnesota, but the foundation has given in North Dakota, South … [Read more...] about Medica Foundation
Women’s Foundation of Minnesota
Overview: The Women's Foundation of Minnesota supports state-wide efforts safety, racial and economic justice, immigration, reproductive freedom, and youth leadership through a lens of intersectional feminism. IP Take: The Women's Foundation of … [Read more...] about Women’s Foundation of Minnesota
Amcor Cares
OVERVIEW: Amcor Cares supports efforts to fight hunger and homelessness, disaster relief, STEM education, health and arts and culture in Wisconsin and other places where the company does business. IP TAKE: This corporate funder is very active in … [Read more...] about Amcor Cares
