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The McKnight Foundation: all 4,463 grants

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

$100,000
Mni Sota Fund · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
For general operating support
$100,000
Montana Community Foundation · Helena, MT · 2023
For general operating support
$100,000
Network for Better Futures · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
To accelerate economic mobility and strengthen families
$100,000
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Concord, NH · 2023
To support the recruitment of Midwestern institutions to the Climate Collaborative and to help community foundations across the Midwest develop a federal implementation strategy
$100,000
New Impact Fund · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
For general operating support
$100,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
To support powerful organizations rooted in, and accountable to, multi-racial and multi-class bases within states
$100,000
Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association · Columbus, OH · 2023
For general operating support
$100,000
Our Streets Minneapolis · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
For general operating support - Our Streets Minneapolis works to put people first by transforming transportation and infrastructure in the Twin Cities and at the state level.
$100,000
Outfront Minnesota Community Services · St Paul, MN · 2023
For general operating support - OutFront is the most prominent LGBTQ+ advocacy organization in Minnesota, which provides community organizing voter engagement within the LGBTQ+ community statewide.
$100,000
Penumbra Theatre Company · St Paul, MN · 2023
For general operating support - Penumbra Theatre's next two seasons will foster the racial healing of individuals and community through a unique integration of powerful artistic programs, customizable equity tools, and … read allFor general operating support - Penumbra Theatre's next two seasons will foster the racial healing of individuals and community through a unique integration of powerful artistic programs, customizable equity tools, and holistic wellness services. less
$100,000
People'S Action Institute · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support climate organizing through deep canvassing, moving thousands of midwesterners to take action on climate
$100,000
Philanthrofund Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
For general operating support - Philanthrofund (also known as PFund) exists to invest in thriving, more equitable communities for queer people in the upper Midwest.
$100,000
Pillsbury United Communities · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
For the Pillsbury Creative Commons campus capital development project
$100,000
Proinspire · Arlington, VA · 2023
To support Black women leaders who are on the frontlines leading climate and racial justice efforts with cultivating well-being and building community power
$100,000
Propel Nonprofits · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
For leadership transition support
$100,000
Public Functionary · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
For capital support
$100,000
R Street Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
To support work on improving electric utility performance-based rates in Minnesota and bolster electric competition, reduce barriers to distributed energy, and advance grid-enhancing technologies in Minnesota and the br… read allTo support work on improving electric utility performance-based rates in Minnesota and bolster electric competition, reduce barriers to distributed energy, and advance grid-enhancing technologies in Minnesota and the broader Midwest less
$100,000
Racing Magpie · Rapid City, SD · 2023
To support work that centers the leadership of artists and culture bearers
$100,000
Region Five Development Commission · Staples, MN · 2023
For general operating support - Region Five works in Central Minnesota to address environmental, economic, and equity issues through inclusive community engagement, comprehensive planning, and capital access.
$100,000
Renew New England Alliance · Providence, RI · 2023
For general operating support - Renew New England Alliance is a capacity-building and support organization that works with on-the-ground frontline partners in multi-state regions to create regional agendas.
$100,000
Renewing the Countryside Ii · Hammond, MN · 2023
For general operating support
$100,000
Rockwood Leadership Institute · San Francisco, CA · 2023
For general operating support - Rockwood provides transformative leadership training to social change and nonprofit leaders.
$100,000
Rocky Mountain Institute · Boulder, CO · 2023
To provide technical assistance on transportation and energy decarbonization in the Midwest
$100,000
Rondo Community Land Trust · Saint Paul, MN · 2023
For general operating support - Rondo Community Land Trust is a community-based affordable housing land trust operating in St. Paul and Suburban Ramsey County.
$100,000
Rondo Community Land Trust · Saint Paul, MN · 2023
For general operating support
$100,000
Rongo University College · 2023
Transforming sorghum-based farming systems in eastern and western Kenya through agro-ecological intensification
$100,000
Sabathani Community Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
To build capacity for the Community Energy Project
$100,000
Seiu Education and Support Fund · Northampton, MA · 2023
To advance building decarbonization, along with racial and economic justice through expansion of the Green Janitor Program in four major Midwest cities
$100,000
Soils Food and Healthy Community Organization · 2023
Scaling out agroecological pest management and gender equity (SAGE) through farmer-centered approaches
$100,000
Sokoine University of Agriculture · 2023
Agroecology Hub in Tanzania
$100,000
Solar United Neighbors · Washington, DC · 2023
To implement distributed solar in the rural Midwest
$100,000
Sprout Mn · Little Falls, MN · 2023
For general operating support - Sprout MN connects and strengthens the local food system as a regional asset in Central Minnesota.
$100,000
Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
For general operating support
$100,000
Swissaid Swiss Foundation for Development Cooperation · 2023
Supporting agroecology peasant schools in the Andes
$100,000
The Anika Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
For general operating support
$100,000
The Good Acre · Falcon Heights, MN · 2023
For general operating support
$100,000
The Montpelier Foundation · Orange, VA · 2023
For general operating support - Montpelier works to tell a complete history of America and has made a public commitment to achieving structural parity in its governance with descendants of people enslaved on the site.
$100,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To address climate change through an environmental justice lens in Minneapolis, and to launch a community-informed policy framework
$100,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support a scholarship program for the 22nd Century Conference in Minneapolis
$100,000
United Nations Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
To support regional climate leadership in the Midwest
$100,000
Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association · Madison, WI · 2023
To create a Climate Resilience Program, and develop a roadmap for local climate actions to advance climate-smart farming practices
$100,000
African American Leadership Forum · Saint Louis Park, MN · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
African Development Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
African Economic Development Solutions · St Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
African Economic Development Solutions · St Paul, MN · 2022
To redevelop a vacant commercial property in the Little Africa Cultural District to include a Halal meat market and grocery, retail space and community spaces, and AEDS offices
$100,000
American Indian Oic · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To support native organizations working collectively to secure building capital dollars from state resources
$100,000
Amherst H Wilder Foundation · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
To support the Community Equity Program
$100,000
Asociacion Nacional De Productores Ecologicos Del Peru · 2022
Agroecological Youth in Action for Peru
$100,000
Association for Black Economic Power · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To support the launch of Village Financial Credit Union
$100,000
Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative · St Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support, and to grow the capacity of the Bring it Home Minnesota campaign to organize a statewide base working towards guaranteeing rent subsidies for all households that qualify
$100,000
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System · Madison, WI · 2022
To support applied research on air quality and health benefits impacts from Midwest energy and climate policy
$100,000
Building Dignity and Respect Standards Council · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Catalyst Arts · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For capacity building support
$100,000
Central Minnesota Arts Board · Foley, MN · 2022
For re-granting programs in support of individual artists
$100,000
City of Minneapolis · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To support the continuous measurement of air quality and greenhouse gases at the block level and create a baseline for the city's Green Zones and surrounding Areas of Concentrated Poverty
$100,000
Closeknit · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · Johnstown, PA · 2022
To transform Appalachia, Ohio, and the Ohio River Valley region of Appalachia through state and local action
$100,000
Community Power · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To sustain a Twin Cities energy justice cohort
$100,000
Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio · St Paul, MN · 2022
For capital support to plan for new cultural center for Latino arts on Lake Street in Minneapolis
$100,000
Comunidades Organizando El Poder Y La Accion Latina Copal Education · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Conservation Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To support a shared common value of "Care for Place" among Minnesotans of all races, ideologies, and geographies that transcends differences and inspires ever greater actions to be even better stewards of our state
$100,000
Conservative Energy Network · Lansing, MI · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Council On Foundations · Washington, DC · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Cultural Wellness Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To support the Lake Street Alignment Process
$100,000
Department of Public Transformation · Granite Falls, MN · 2022
For capital support to renovate a building in Granite Falls for artists and community use
$100,000
Dream of Wild Health · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Eclosio · 2022
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 · 2022
To educate and engage with state and local policymakers to drive for more ambitious EV policies in Midwestern states
$100,000
Elevate Energy · Chicago, IL · 2022
To support equitable building electrification in the Midwest
$100,000
Elevate Energy · Chicago, IL · 2022
To provide comprehensive technical assistance to Justice40 Accelerator cohort organizations
$100,000
Environmental Law & Policy Center of the Midwest · Chicago, IL · 2022
To promote electric grid transformation through enhanced equity, access, and inclusion
$100,000
Equal Justice Initiative · Montgomery, AL · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Faith in Place · Chicago, IL · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Family Freedom Center · Duluth, MN · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Filmnorth · St Paul, MN · 2022
For a capital campaign
$100,000
Food & Water Watch · Washington, DC · 2022
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 agricultur… read allFor 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 less
$100,000
Food and Environment Reporting Network · New York, NY · 2022
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
Foster Advocates · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Fundacin Aliados · 2022
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
Global Philanthropy Partnership · Chicago, IL · 2022
To advance clean, reliable, and safe transportation through local sustainability and equitable mobility solutions
$100,000
Grassroots Power Project · Berkeley, CA · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Greater Bemidji · Bemidji, MN · 2022
To transform traditional recruitment and retention approaches by developing internal capacity within companies to interact with potential and new employees differently
$100,000
Greater Horizons · Kansas City, MO · 2022
For Matching Gifts
$100,000
Greater Horizons · Kansas City, MO · 2022
For Matching GIfts
$100,000
Grupo Yanapai · 2022
Forage and Fallows Phase IV: Promoting and Refining Options for Sustainable Soil and Landscape Management
$100,000
Guthrie Theatre Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For the Come to Wonder Campaign
$100,000
Healthy Building Network · Washington, DC · 2022
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
Hope Community · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Housing Justice Center · St Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support, and for strategic planning support
$100,000
Inclusive Prosperity Capital · Hartford, CT · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Institut De Recherche Pour Le Developpement · 2022
Agro-ecological management of crop insects: towards a sustainable collective goal for farmers
$100,000
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To develop a climate policy framework centered on farms and rural communities
$100,000
Iowa Association of Soil Conservation District Commission · Des Moines, IA · 2022
To support a farmer mentoring program to implement regenerative farming practices
$100,000
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement · Des Moines, IA · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Iowa Environmental Council · Des Moines, IA · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Isaiah · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Jewish Community Action · St Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Juxtaposition · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
$100,000
Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization · 2022
Enhancing Agro-ecological Intensification through targeted integration of legume-based interventions in diverse farming systems in Western Kenya
$100,000
Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources · 2022
Agroecology hub for scaling out agro-ecological intensification in maize-legume systems in Malawi