Funding search · The McKnight Foundation · grants

The McKnight Foundation: all 4,463 grants

Largest first · $656.9M across 2020–2024 · back to the overview

• $100,000

  Our Streets Minneapolis · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $100,000

  Pastors United Community Advocacy · Milwaukee, WI · 2024

  to support the Milwaukee Midtown Voter Education and Voter Engagement project for the 2024 election cycle

• $100,000

  Penumbra Theatre Company · St Paul, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $100,000

  Perception Institute · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  to support a nonpartisan civic engagement research and narrative development project

• $100,000

  Peruanos Unidos Por La Cocina Y La Alimentacion · 2024

  Territorial markets and multi-stakeholder collaboration in Peru: Strengthening territorial markets through their value chains and economic ecosystems in Peru

• $100,000

  R Street Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

  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

  Region Five Development Commission · Staples, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $100,000

  Renewing the Countryside Ii · Hammond, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $100,000

  Sabathani Community Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  to build capacity for Sabathani's Community Energy Project

• $100,000

  Seiu Education and Support Fund · Northampton, MA · 2024

  For Program support

• $100,000

  Smart Growth America · Washington, DC · 2024

  to study and create stakeholder engagement in the Midwest and nationally to articulate transit funding needs and policy reforms that transit advocates and policymakers can champion

• $100,000

  Solar United Neighbors · Washington, DC · 2024

  to implement distributed solar in the rural Midwest

• $100,000

  Springboard for the Arts · Saint Paul, MN · 2024

  for Guaranteed Income for Artists and Culture Bearers: A 5-year Pilot, Research, and Narrative Change Initiative Advancing Economic Justice

• $100,000

  Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania · 2024

  Farmer-Centred Agroecology Research in Tanzania

• $100,000

  Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $100,000

  Takeaction Minnesota Education Fund · Saint Paul, MN · 2024

  to bridge a funding gap for work to improve restaurant workers' lives by building worker power and uniting workers of various backgrounds around shared goals and values

• $100,000

  Takeaction Minnesota Education Fund · Saint Paul, MN · 2024

  to identify, support, and amplify the role of organizational and movement culture and the culture bearers who advance it

• $100,000

  The Anika Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $100,000

  The Foundation for the Promotion and Investigation of Andean Products · 2024

  Youth-led social mobilization to promote food security through agroecological transition in Bolivia

• $100,000

  Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  to support organizing efforts in Michigan that lead to polices that support safe, secure, and clean built housing

• $100,000

  Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  to deliver a program to prepare and encourage women and people of color from the region to become knowledgeable, motivated, and supported investment leaders building investment firms in the next 1-3 years

• $100,000

  United Negro College Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  to support the 9th Annual United Negro College Fund Twin Cities Masked Ball, scheduled for May 2025

• $100,000

  Universit Joseph Ki-Zerbo · 2024

  Recycling Urban Organic Waste, Recovering and safeguarding soil health to boost peri-urban smallholder farming for sustainable resilience in West Africa

• $100,000

  University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation · Burlington, VT · 2024

  to support Transformative Agroecology

• $100,000

  V3 Sports · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  for general operating support

• $100,000

  Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  For program support

• $100,000

  Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association · Madison, WI · 2024

  for general operating support

• $100,000

  Active Transportation Alliance · Chicago, IL · 2023

  For the Illinois Clean and Equitable Transportation Campaign

• $100,000

  African American Leadership Forum · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Agape Child Development Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  For general operating support - Agape Child Development Center provides culturally relevant services focused on healing individuals, restoring families, empowering people, and strengthening communities.

• $100,000

  Amherst H Wilder Foundation · Saint Paul, MN · 2023

  To support the Community Equity Program

• $100,000

  Art of the Rural · Winona, MN · 2023

  For general operating support - Art of the Rural works to support non-urban artists, culture-bearers, cultural organizations, and communities in rural places across the country from its home base in Winona, MN.

• $100,000

  Asociacion Nacional De Productores Ecologicos Del Peru · 2023

  Agroecological Youth in Action for Peru

• $100,000

  Black Appalachian Coalition · Ottawa Hills, OH · 2023

  To support the Black Appalachian Coalition

• $100,000

  Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System · Madison, WI · 2023

  To support applied research on air quality and health benefits impacts from Midwest energy and climate policy

• $100,000

  Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  To support the Emerging LGBTQ+ Leaders of Color Fund

• $100,000

  Building Dignity and Respect Standards Council · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Capi USA · Brooklyn Center, MN · 2023

  To build out CAPI's democratic participation and power building efforts

• $100,000

  Center for Rural Affairs · Lyons, NE · 2023

  To bolster climate change and sustainable agriculture policy development for federal farm policies

• $100,000

  Central Minnesota Arts Board · Foley, MN · 2023

  For re-granting programs in support of individual artists and culture bearers

• $100,000

  Climate Group · New York, NY · 2023

  To work with Midwestern state and regional governments to deepen commitment to measurable climate goals

• $100,000

  Climate Land Leaders · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  To help farmland owners implement climate-friendly practices on their lands, advance climate initiatives and narratives

• $100,000

  Closeknit · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Coalition for Green Capital · Washington Dc, DC · 2023

  For general operating support - Coalition for Green Capital works with state and local green banks, community development financial institutions, and other stakeholders to remove financial barriers to the equitable depl… read allFor general operating support - Coalition for Green Capital works with state and local green banks, community development financial institutions, and other stakeholders to remove financial barriers to the equitable deployment of clean energy. less
• $100,000

  Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Dubuque, IA · 2023

  To convene, educate and assist local communities in building a clean energy infrastructure and to provide technical assistance to support accessing and managing federal grants

• $100,000

  Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · Johnstown, PA · 2023

  To support work toward an equitable economic transition for the Appalachian region and to work with coalition partners to connect cultural stories into the economic development framework

• $100,000

  Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · Johnstown, PA · 2023

  To transform Appalachia, Ohio, and the Ohio River Valley region of Appalachia through state and local action

• $100,000

  Community Power · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  To sustain a Twin Cities energy justice cohort

• $100,000

  Comunidades Organizando El Poder Y La Accion Latina Copal Education · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Conservative Energy Network · Lansing, MI · 2023

  For general operating support - Conservative Energy Network educates opinion leaders and the general public about public policies that promote the transition to a clean energy future.

• $100,000

  Council On Foundations · Washington, DC · 2023

  For general operating support - The Council on Foundations provide services, programming, and engagement for the philanthropic sector.

• $100,000

  Creative Minnesota · Saint Paul, MN · 2023

  For general operating support - Creative MN works to build towards renewal of the Legacy Amendment, using reports and data from the past ten years that show the power and vibrancy of the arts and culture sector in Minne… read allFor general operating support - Creative MN works to build towards renewal of the Legacy Amendment, using reports and data from the past ten years that show the power and vibrancy of the arts and culture sector in Minnesota. less
• $100,000

  Crespial · 2023

  To support work that centers the leadership of artists and culture bearers

• $100,000

  Department of Public Transformation · Granite Falls, MN · 2023

  For general operating support - DoPT is an artist-led organization that works to develop creative strategies for increased community connection, civic engagement, and equitable participation in rural places in Minnesota… read allFor general operating support - DoPT is an artist-led organization that works to develop creative strategies for increased community connection, civic engagement, and equitable participation in rural places in Minnesota and across the country. less
• $100,000

  Dream of Wild Health · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  For general operating support - Dream of Wild Health runs a 30-acre farm, native fruit orchard, and pollinator meadow and is leading an inter-tribal vision toward Indigenous food sovereignty.

• $100,000

  Dream of Wild Health · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  For general operating support - Dream of Wild Health is one of the lead organizers of the Indigenous Food Network and is leading the movement to reclaim Indigenous sovereignty through food.

• $100,000

  Eclosio · 2023

  Support to the scaling up of local agro-ecological food systems from Andean highland territories of the Cordillera Negra (Ancash-Peru)

• $100,000

  Electrification Coalition Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023

  To drive at-scale municipal fleet electrification and charging deployment in the Midwest, leveraging federal funding opportunities and ensuring effective implementation of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure an… read allTo drive at-scale municipal fleet electrification and charging deployment in the Midwest, leveraging federal funding opportunities and ensuring effective implementation of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure and the EV-related IRA programs less
• $100,000

  Environmental Law & Policy Center of the Midwest · Chicago, IL · 2023

  To promote electric grid transformation through enhanced equity, access, and inclusion

• $100,000

  Envision Communities · Ham Lake, MN · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Family Freedom Center · Duluth, MN · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Ffwd · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  To help Midwest communities leverage federal funding and equitably transition to clean energy

• $100,000

  Fmw Nonprofit Solutions · Minnetonka, MN · 2023

  To support increased civic engagement and LGBTQ2IA+ leadership in Minnesota

• $100,000

  Food & Water Watch · Washington, DC · 2023

  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

  Food and Environment Reporting Network · New York, NY · 2023

  To support FERN's reporting in the Midwest on climate change and agriculture, equity issues in agriculture, and worker issues in the food system

• $100,000

  Fortis Capital · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  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 t… read allFor 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 less
• $100,000

  Foster Advocates · Saint Paul, MN · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Fuma Gaskiya · 2023

  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

• $100,000

  Fundacin Aliados · 2023

  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

• $100,000

  George Floyd Global Memorial · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  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

  Global Impact · Alexandria, VA · 2023

  To support the work of a funders' collaborative to prevent gun violence

• $100,000

  Global Philanthropy Partnership · Chicago, IL · 2023

  To support local- and community-driven clean transportation solutions in the Midwest

• $100,000

  Grantmakers in the Arts · Bronx, NY · 2023

  For Grantmakers in the Arts' annual conference in the Twin Cities

• $100,000

  Grassroots in Action · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Grassroots Power Project · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Great Plains Action Society · Iowa City, IA · 2023

  For general operating support - Great Plains Action Society works to advance indigenous voices and priorities on critical natural resource and climate issues in Iowa, including the management of natural and working land… read allFor general operating support - Great Plains Action Society works to advance indigenous voices and priorities on critical natural resource and climate issues in Iowa, including the management of natural and working lands. less
• $100,000

  Grist Magazine · Seattle, WA · 2023

  To deploy a partnership model in the Midwest that supports local news in telling the story of climate, justice, and solutions

• $100,000

  Healthy Building Network · Washington, DC · 2023

  To eliminate environmental racism, health inequities, and climate injustices in Minnesota's housing system by integrating co-created solutions for healthier and circular building products at all stages of their life cyc… read allTo eliminate environmental racism, health inequities, and climate injustices in Minnesota's housing system by integrating co-created solutions for healthier and circular building products at all stages of their life cycle less
• $100,000

  In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  For general operating support and capacity building support

• $100,000

  Inclusive Prosperity Capital · Hartford, CT · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Institut De Recherche Pour Le Developpement · 2023

  Agroecological valorization of organic waste (AgrOW)

• $100,000

  Institut National De La Recherche Agronomique Du Niger · 2023

  For centering female cultural bearers in the regions of Tera and Falwel in Sahelian Niger who are encouraging the local production of seeds, the cultivation of African food crops, and transforming them into traditional,… read allFor centering female cultural bearers in the regions of Tera and Falwel in Sahelian Niger who are encouraging the local production of seeds, the cultivation of African food crops, and transforming them into traditional, nutritious food products less
• $100,000

  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  To expand and improve farm conservation programs in Midwest states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon, while advocating for greater limits on emissions from large-scale factory farm systems in the M… read allTo expand and improve farm conservation programs in Midwest states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon, while advocating for greater limits on emissions from large-scale factory farm systems in the Midwest and nationally less
• $100,000

  Inter Tribal Council of Michigan · Sault Ste Marie, MI · 2023

  General operating support - The Inter Tribal Council of Michigan is a forum, advocate, and technical assistance provider to member tribes in the State of Michigan.

• $100,000

  Iowa Environmental Council · Des Moines, IA · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Isaiah · Saint Paul, MN · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Jewish Community Action · St Paul, MN · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources · 2023

  Agroecology hub for scaling out agro-ecological intensification in maize-legume systems in Malawi

• $100,000

  Local Progress Policy Institute · Washington, DC · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Lower Sioux Indian Community · Morton, MN · 2023

  For general operating support - Lower Sioux Indian Community has a strategic plan, mission, and values grounded and guided by Dakota Culture , traditions, and language and will bring a native perspective to Surge Fund l… read allFor general operating support - Lower Sioux Indian Community has a strategic plan, mission, and values grounded and guided by Dakota Culture , traditions, and language and will bring a native perspective to Surge Fund learning. less
• $100,000

  Metropolitan Economic Development Association · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  For a landscape assessment project to solidify regional infrastructure partners, secure funders for program and business acquisition, get corporate buyer commitment, and formally launch a concept to transfer business ow… read allFor a landscape assessment project to solidify regional infrastructure partners, secure funders for program and business acquisition, get corporate buyer commitment, and formally launch a concept to transfer business ownership to potential BIPOC owners less
• $100,000

  Midwest Minnesota Community Development Corporation · Detroit Lakes, MN · 2023

  To advance CDFI support

• $100,000

  Midwest Tribal Energy Resources Association · Milwaukee, WI · 2023

  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.

• $100,000

  Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership · Saint Paul, MN · 2023

  To deepen efforts to develop market transformation and commercialization strategies for the cash cover crop "winter camelina drive successful adoption of nutrient management, cover cropping, and longer crop rotations in… read allTo deepen efforts to develop market transformation and commercialization strategies for the cash cover crop "winter camelina drive successful adoption of nutrient management, cover cropping, and longer crop rotations in the Red River Valley less
• $100,000

  Minnesota Community Action Association Resource Fund · St Paul, MN · 2023

  To build housing communications and grassroots capacity across the Community Action Agency network, especially in Greater Minnesota

• $100,000

  Minnesota Council On Foundations · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  To support long-term democracy infrastructure and an inclusive democracy that works for everyone

• $100,000

  Minnesota Public Radio · St Paul, MN · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Minnesota Youth Collective Education Fund · St Paul, MN · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Minnpost · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  For general operating support

• $100,000

  Mission Investors Exchange · New York, NY · 2023

  To develop a Board and Investment Committee Education and Matchmaking Platform to bring diversity and impact investing expertise to foundation boards and investment committees as a catalyst for foundations to deepen the… read allTo develop a Board and Investment Committee Education and Matchmaking Platform to bring diversity and impact investing expertise to foundation boards and investment committees as a catalyst for foundations to deepen their impact investing work less