The McKnight Foundation

Recent grants

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

• $10.0M

  Minneapolis Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for the GroundBreak Coalition special purpose fund

• $9.6M

  United States Energy Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  to equitably decarbonize the Midwest by supporting powerful and inclusive coalitions with the ability to transform markets and the economy through state action in seven states

• $5.0M

  Minneapolis Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for the GroundBreak Coalition special purpose fund

• $2.2M

  Minnesota Home Ownership Center · Saint Paul, MN · 2024

  to bridge capacity needs and scale the deployment capacity of GroundBreak Coalition supported down payment assistance products

• $2.0M

  Rewiring America · Washington, DC · 2024

  to advance equitable electrification in the Midwest through place-based demonstration projects and policy development

• $2.0M

  The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for award programs supporting research in neuroscience

• $2.0M

  Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  for general operating support

• $1.9M

  Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Jackson, WY · 2024

  for family-directed giving

• $1.8M

  Greater Minnesota Housing Fund · St Paul, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $1.5M

  Region Nine Development Commission · Mankato, MN · 2024

  to provide technical assistance to cities, counties, and towns in Greater Minnesota applying for federal and state funding and deploying climate and clean energy projects

• $1.5M

  The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for award programs supporting research in neuroscience

• $1.5M

  Brick By Brick Training & Development Corporation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  to purchase a 400+ single family rental portfolio of properties and equitably reposition them for homeownership

• $1.5M

  Youthprise · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $1.3M

  Local Initiatives Support Corporation · New York, NY · 2024

  to support the operations of LISC Twin Cities

• $1.2M

  Fresh Energy · St Paul, MN · 2024

  to move Minnesota and the Midwest toward dramatic near-term reductions in carbon pollution through equity-centered policy work, partnerships, and innovation

• $1.1M

  Family Housing Fund · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $1.1M

  Innovia Foundation · Spokane, WA · 2024

  for family-directed giving

• $1.1M

  Park City Community Foundation · Park City, UT · 2024

  for family-directed giving

• $1.1M

  National Philanthropic Trust · Jenkintown, PA · 2024

  for family-directed giving

• $1.0M

  Global Philanthropy Partnership · Chicago, IL · 2024

  to transform the transportation sector while centering equity, climate, and people

• $1.0M

  Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  For program support

• $1.0M

  Family Housing Fund · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  to support the stabilization of affordable rental housing properties and providers

• $750,000

  Pillsbury United Communities · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  to complete Phase 1 of the Pillsbury Creative Commons (PCC) campus redevelopment project

• $700,000

  Pangea World Theater · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for capital campaign support to purchase land and a building for the future home of Pangea World Theater

• $600,000

  Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  to engage and support interested and affected parties toward equitably implementing the 100% clean energy legislation and reducing emissions from the building, energy, and transportation sectors

• $575,000

  Lawyers for Good Government · Washington, DC · 2024

  to provide legal support to states, localities, and community organizations in the Midwest to advance climate equity

• $550,000

  St Paul Transportation Management Organization · St Paul, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $550,000

  Nexus Community Partners · St Paul, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $544,000

  Meridian Institute · Dillon, CO · 2024

  to support core capacity for a strategic alliance of philanthropic foundations

• $500,000

  Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota · St Paul, MN · 2024

  for general operating and re-granting support to provide leadership development, advocacy, and capacity building support for Habitat for Humanity affiliates across Minnesota

• $500,000

  Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund · Columbus, OH · 2024

  for general operating support

• $500,000

  Marin Community Foundation · Novato, CA · 2024

  to build the capacity ofmember 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

• $500,000

  Power a Clean Future Ohio · Columbus, OH · 2024

  for general operating support

• $500,000

  Southwest Initiative Foundation · Hutchinson, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $500,000

  Northland Foundation · Duluth, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $500,000

  West Central Initiative · Fergus Falls, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $500,000

  Association for Black Economic Power · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for working capital to launch Arise Community Credit Union as the state's first Black-led community credit union and provide a pathway to stabilize and build community wealth

• $500,000

  Project for Pride in Living · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for the RE-Seed program, a small property re-positioning revolving fund

• $500,000

  Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · Owatonna, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $500,000

  The Schott Foundation for Public Education · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  To improve life outcomes for boys and men of color

• $500,000

  Bme Networks · Hollywood, FL · 2024

  For program support

• $500,000

  Indianapolis Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2024

  to seed a collaboration of local and national foundations in Indiana to support strategies and policies at the intersection of environmental justice, federal funding implementation, and democracy

• $500,000

  Michigan Civic Education Fund · Madison Heights, MI · 2024

  to advance civic engagement across the state of Michigan

• $500,000

  Shared Capital Cooperative · St Paul, MN · 2024

  to build capacity and increase access to capital

• $500,000

  Minnesota Voice · St Paul, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $500,000

  Northwest Minnesota Foundation · Bemidji, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $500,000

  State Power Fund · Kent, OH · 2024

  to support a year-round civic engagement strategy across the state of Wisconsin

• $500,000

  Initiative Foundation · Little Falls, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $500,000

  Potlikker Capital · Dover, DE · 2024

  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

• $500,000

  Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $500,000

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  to support pro-democracy work in Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin

• $500,000

  Minneapolis Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  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 healt…

• $500,000

  Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  for general operating support

• $500,000

  Regenerative Agriculture Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  to build the capacity of diverse Midwest food and farm organizations to administer large federal grants and advance regenerative agriculture through a newly created fund by the Rural Climate Partnership and Regenerative…

• $485,000

  Congressional Progressive Caucus Center · Washington, DC · 2024

  to host a series of convenings that help Minnesota entities take advantage of the Inflation Reduction Act's Elective Pay to build publicly-owned clean energy projects and create high-quality jobs in their communities

• $425,000

  Earth Island Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  to launch and sustain a Midwest Agriculture Conservation Network to increase participation in NRCS programs by small to medium-scale, underserved, sustainable and organic producers who have not historically been adequat…

• $400,000

  Working Partnerships Incorporated · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  to support efforts that broker knowledge and resources, nurture collaboration, and build relationships among worker centers and union partners

• $400,000

  State Power Fund · Kent, OH · 2024

  to support the Midwest State Power Training and Capacity Hub

• $400,000

  Minneapolis Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  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

• $400,000

  Citizens Utility Board of Minnesota · St Paul, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $400,000

  Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Jackson, WY · 2024

  for the Staryk Family Fund

• $375,000

  Living Cities Inc the National Community Development Initiative · New York, NY · 2024

  general operating support

• $370,000

  University of Minnesota Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  to support the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs Community Programs to nourish an ecosystem for reparative policy change through data, research, organizing, and leadership development, and democratizing complex info…

• $350,000

  Clean Grid Alliance · St Paul, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $350,000

  Greater Horizons · Kansas City, MO · 2024

  For matching gifts

• $350,000

  Statistics for Sustainable Development · 2024

  Research Methods Support

• $350,000

  Isaiah · St Paul, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $350,000

  Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund · Columbus, OH · 2024

  for general operating support

• $345,550

  The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for award programs supporting research in neuroscience

• $344,000

  Alliance of Artists Communities · Providence, RI · 2024

  for a residency consortium fellowship program for McKnight Artist Fellows

• $342,000

  International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics · 2024

  Networking4Seed II: Strengthening seed systems through farmer-research networks in a context of agroecological transition in West Africa

• $325,000

  Greater Minnesota Housing Fund · St Paul, MN · 2024

  to build the housing justice field through investments in lived experience leadership, transformative systems changes, and statewide narrative infrastructure

• $300,000

  Pangea World Theater · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for capital campaign support to purchase land and a building for the future home of Pangea World Theater

• $300,000

  Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy · St Paul, MN · 2024

  for strategy leadership to transform the energy sector, decarbonize building, maximize implementation of new laws, and achieve equitable outcomes at the Public Utilities Commission

• $300,000

  Our Streets Minneapolis · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $300,000

  Clean Up the River Environment · Montevideo, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $300,000

  Minneapolis Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  to build support for climate action in rural communities and to maximize federal funds going to Midwestern communities

• $300,000

  People'S Action Institute · Chicago, IL · 2024

  for general operating support

• $300,000

  Center for Energy and Environment · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  to advance equitable building decarbonization in Minnesota

• $300,000

  Takeaction Minnesota Education Fund · Saint Paul, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $300,000

  Sierra Club Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024

  to decarbonize the power, transportation, and building sectors in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, to realize an equitable clean energy future; guided by principles of democratic organizing and racial justice

• $300,000

  Fair Count · Atlanta, GA · 2024

  To advance narrative efforts through messaging research, strategic communications, and engagement

• $300,000

  Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative · St Paul, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $300,000

  Nafasi Fund · Huntsville, AL · 2024

  to advance positive life outcomes for youth of color

• $300,000

  Centro De Trabajadores Unidos En La Lucha · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $300,000

  Public Health Law Center · St Paul, MN · 2024

  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

• $300,000

  Ceres · Boston, MA · 2024

  to mobilize partners to make the business case for state policies and regulations that spur equitable transition to a decarbonized transportation system and a clean energy economy in the Midwest, and to support the Clim…

• $276,000

  Minneapolis College of Art and Design · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for a fellowship program for visual artists

• $275,000

  Native American Community Development Institute · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $270,000

  Fundacion Para El Desarrollo Agrario · 2024

  Rural-urban partnerships for the on-farm conservation of Peru's native chilli peppers

• $267,000

  University of Minnesota Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  to engage and support Minnesota communities in implementing clean energy projects

• $250,000

  Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota · St Paul, MN · 2024

  to support starting a residential solar panel installation program for Habitat for Humanity homes in Minnesota

• $250,000

  One Roof Community Housing · Duluth, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $250,000

  Clean Energy Jobs and Justice Fund · Rockford, IL · 2024

  for general operating support

• $250,000

  City of Lakes Community Land Trust · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $250,000

  Alliance for a Just Society · Seattle, WA · 2024

  to support both urban and reservation-based Indigenous nonpartisan civic engagement

• $250,000

  Aeon · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  to support operational and organizational development

• $250,000

  Michigan Saves · Lansing, MI · 2024

  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

• $250,000

  Friends of the Mississippi River · St Paul, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $250,000

  Hourcar · Saint Paul, MN · 2024

  for general operating support