Northwest Area Foundation

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

• $700,000

  Native American Youth and Family Center · Portland, OR · 2024

  General operating support

• $500,000

  The Directors Council · Des Moines, IA · 2024

  General operating support

• $500,000

  Nexus Community Partners · St Paul, MN · 2024

  General operating support for capacity building

• $500,000

  Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  Grantmaking for indigenous, black and ecosystem-building support

• $500,000

  Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation · Porcupine, SD · 2024

  General operating support

• $500,000

  Office of the Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs · Washington, DC · 2024

  Federal indian boarding school initiative.

• $450,000

  Social Justice Fund Northwest · Seattle, WA · 2024

  Abundantly resourcing bipoc & grassroots organizing

• $450,000

  Working Partnerships Incorporated · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  Workers confluence fund flexible program support

• $400,000

  Oweesta Corporation · Longmont, CO · 2024

  Empowering native economic growth: general operating support for cdfi advancement

• $300,000

  Sage Foundation · Fort Yates, ND · 2024

  General operating support

• $270,000

  Chief Seattle Club · Seattle, WA · 2024

  General operating support

• $250,000

  Aapi Civic Engagement Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  Aapi community empowerment project

• $250,000

  Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice · Des Moines, IA · 2024

  General operating support

• $250,000

  Philanthropy Northwest · Seattle, WA · 2024

  General operating support

• $250,000

  Mountain Shadow Association · Bozeman, MT · 2024

  General operating support

• $250,000

  Northside Economic Opportunity Network · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  Northside economic opportunity network general operations

• $250,000

  North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $250,000

  Byrd Barr Place · Seattle, WA · 2024

  General operating support

• $250,000

  Craft3 · Seattle, WA · 2024

  General operating support

• $250,000

  Hmong American Partnership · St Paul, MN · 2024

  Support for southeast asian and immigrant/ refugee-owned small businesses in the twin cities

• $250,000

  Common Counsel Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024

  Sponsorship

• $250,000

  Verde · Portland, OR · 2024

  General operating support

• $250,000

  Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  Trans justice funding project- justice for trans communities in the northwest

• $250,000

  Seeding Justice · Portland, OR · 2024

  Seeding justice's community-led, community-driven grantmaking: by and for the movement

• $200,000

  247 Blac · Waterloo, IA · 2024

  General operating support

• $200,000

  Opportunity Link · Havre, MT · 2024

  Mobilizing communities assets for growth and change

• $200,000

  Ventures · Seattle, WA · 2024

  General operating support

• $200,000

  Ujamaa Place · St Paul, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $200,000

  Native Cdfi Network · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  General operating support

• $200,000

  Nimiipuu Community Development Fund · Lapwai, ID · 2024

  General operating support

• $200,000

  Mni Wiconi Health Circle · Mandan, ND · 2024

  General operating support

• $200,000

  Build Wealth Mn · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $170,000

  Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul · St Paul, MN · 2024

  Economic mobility hub for american indians

• $170,000

  Cultural Wellness Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  Black Hills Community Loan Fund · Rapid City, SD · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  White Earth Investment Initiative · Ogema, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  Taala Fund · Taholah, WA · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  Mazaska Owecaso Otipi Financial · Pine Ridge, SD · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  Capaces Leadership Institute · Woodburn, OR · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  Nacdc Financial Services · Browning, MT · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  Global To Local Health Initiative · Seatac, WA · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence · Des Moines, IA · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  Nixyaawii Community Financial Services · Pendleton, OR · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  Native360 Loan Fund · Grand Island, NE · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  Plenty Doors Community Development Corporation · Crow Agency, MT · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  Native American Development Center · Bismarck, ND · 2024

  General operating support

• $138,000

  The Praxis Project · Oakland, CA · 2024

  People's economy lab

• $125,000

  Willamette Valley Law Project · Woodburn, OR · 2024

  Systems change for farmworkers

• $125,000

  Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia-United Renters for Justice · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  Imagine Black Futures · Beaverton, OR · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  He Sapa Otipi - Incorporated · Rapid City, SD · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  Akiptan · Eagle Butte, SD · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Duluth, MN · 2024

  Enhancing an ecological approach to bipoc wealth, entrepreneurship, and economic sustainability in duluth, minnesota

• $125,000

  Leech Lake Financial Services · Cass Lake, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  Coalition of Communities of Color · Portland, OR · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  Community Lendingworks · Springfield, OR · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  Comunidades Organizando El Poder Y La Accion Latina Copal Education · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  African American Leadership Forum · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  African Career Education & Resources · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  African Economic Development Solutions · St Paul, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  Immigrant Development Center · Moorhead, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon · Portland, OR · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  Unite Oregon · Portland, OR · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  Samoa Pacific Development Corporation · Portland, OR · 2024

  Building a movement for pacific islander self determination in oregon

• $125,000

  Running Strong for American Indian Youth · Alexandria, VA · 2024

  Sacred water bundle (minizipan wakan) infrastructure building for a tribal template for co-stewardship on the missouri river

• $125,000

  Puget Sound Sage · Seattle, WA · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  Oregon Native American Chamber · Portland, OR · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  Oceti Sakowin Community Academy · Rapid City, SD · 2024

  General operating support

• $125,000

  Makoce Agriculture Development · Porcupine, SD · 2024

  General operating support

• $100,000

  Neighborhood Development Center · St Paul, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $100,000

  Lakota Fund · Kyle, SD · 2024

  General operating support

• $100,000

  Amos Institute of Public Life · Des Moines, IA · 2024

  Iowa rural organizing strategy

• $100,000

  Lakota Youth Development · Herrick, SD · 2024

  General operating support

• $100,000

  Lower Phalen Creek Project · St Paul, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $100,000

  Minnesota Museum of American Art · St Paul, MN · 2024

  A recoverable grant in support of m and reopening of expanded facility.

• $100,000

  Mn8 · St Paul, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $100,000

  Mni Sota Fund · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $100,000

  Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment · Pullman, WA · 2024

  General operating support

• $100,000

  Our Children'S Earth Foundation · Napa, CA · 2024

  Documentary film regarding the effort to gain freedom for leonard peltier

• $100,000

  Rural Organizing Project · Cottage Grove, OR · 2024

  General operating support

• $100,000

  The Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation · St Paul, MN · 2024

  Collegebound saint paul: wealth justice

• $100,000

  Warm Springs Community Action Team · Warm Springs, OR · 2024

  General operating support

• $100,000

  Western Native Voice · Billings, MT · 2024

  General operating support

• $75,000

  Native American Community Board · Lake Andes, SD · 2024

  General operating support

• $75,000

  Apano Communities United Fund · Portland, OR · 2024

  General operating support

• $75,000

  Montana Two Spirit Society · Missoula, MT · 2024

  General operating support

• $75,000

  Coup Council · Rapid City, SD · 2024

  Counting coup: coup stands for community organizing for unified power

• $75,000

  Eshara · St Paul, MN · 2024

  Eshara collaborative capacity building

• $75,000

  Fast Blackfeet · Browning, MT · 2024

  General operating support

• $75,000

  Awood Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  General operating support

• $75,000

  Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence · Boise, ID · 2024

  Black liberation collective

• $75,000

  Nonprofit Information Networking Association · Boston, MA · 2024

  Nonprofit quarterly economic justice initiative

• $75,000

  Lavender Rights Project · Seattle, WA · 2024

  General operating support

• $75,000

  Mahchiwminahnahtik Chippewa and Cree Language Revitalization · Box Elder, MT · 2024

  General operating support

• $75,000

  Whiteswan Environmental We · Bellingham, WA · 2024

  General operating support

• $75,000

  South Dakota Voices for Peace · Sioux Falls, SD · 2024

  General operating support

• $60,000

  Latino Community Fund of Washington State · Seattle, WA · 2024

  Firelands workers united / trabajadores unidos: building multiracial worker power towards a just, green, healthy, economy in rural southwest washington state

• $50,000

  Blackfeet Eco Knowledge · Browning, MT · 2024

  Blackfeet eco knowledge shield keeper program

• $50,000

  Iowa Caregivers · West Des Moines, IA · 2024

  Advancing system change policies to elevate wages for direct care workers

• $50,000

  Sharing Our Roots · Northfield, MN · 2024

  Nurturing the long-view of land access & emerging farmer support