Funding search · The McKnight Foundation · grants
The McKnight Foundation: all 4,463 grants
Largest first · $656.9M across 2020–2024 · back to the overview
- $50,000
Women'S Foundation of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
To center and invest in the leadership and solutions of Black, Indigenous/American Indian, young women of color working as leaders at the forefront of climate justice and equity in their communities through the Young Wo… read allTo center and invest in the leadership and solutions of Black, Indigenous/American Indian, young women of color working as leaders at the forefront of climate justice and equity in their communities through the Young Women's Initiative of Minnesota less
- $50,000
100 Rural Women · Marcell, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Agape Child Development Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Ananya Dance Theatre · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Arena Dances · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Arts Center of Saint Peter · St Peter Mn, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Association Ecology Technology and Culture in the Andes · 2022
Spread Agroecology: Responding to New Challenges
- $50,000
Ayada Leads · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
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
- $50,000
Black Label Movement · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To support the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund by joining as a learning partner
- $50,000
Center for Hmong Arts and Talent · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Center for Popular Democracy · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To support The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice, an online journal focused on creating a forum for innovative conversations about organizing strategy and practice among community, labor, electoral, movement, and … read allTo support The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice, an online journal focused on creating a forum for innovative conversations about organizing strategy and practice among community, labor, electoral, movement, and digital organizers less
- $50,000
Center for Rural Affairs · Lyons, NE · 2022
To bolster climate change and sustainable agriculture policy development for federal farm policies
- $50,000
Ceres · Boston, MA · 2022
To mobilize Ceres' company and investor partners to make the business case for state policies and regulations that spur an equitable transition to a decarbonized transportation system and a clean energy economy in the M… read allTo mobilize Ceres' company and investor partners to make the business case for state policies and regulations that spur an equitable transition to a decarbonized transportation system and a clean energy economy in the Midwest less
- $50,000
Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Jackson, WY · 2022
For the Coleman Family Fund
- $50,000
Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Jackson, WY · 2022
For the Staryk Family Fund
- $50,000
Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio · St Paul, MN · 2022
For ongoing support of Latino artists and community arts initiatives
- $50,000
Contemporary Dance Arts · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Crow River Players · New London, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Department of Public Transformation · Granite Falls, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
East Side Neighborhood Development Company · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Engage Winona · Winona, MN · 2022
To multiply impact on systems and build community and citizen power through homegrown cultural features that build relationships and shift mental models, and for general operating support
- $50,000
Ewart Douglas · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For the 2022 Distinguished Artist Award
- $50,000
Exodus Financial Services · St Paul, MN · 2022
For anti-payday loan program for accelerating economic mobility
- $50,000
Exposed Brick Theatre · St Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Family Freedom Center · Duluth, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Flying Foot Forum · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Frank Theatre · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Full Circle Theater Company · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Greater Minnesota Worker Center · Saint Cloud, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Guthrie Theatre Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Healing Place · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Housing Justice Center · St Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support, and for strategic planning support
- $50,000
Housing Link · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Hutchinson Center for the Arts · Hutchinson, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Illusion Theater and School · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support, and for capital support for equipment and technology
- $50,000
In Black Ink · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
In Progress · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
To support the Nexus digital arts training program Twin Cities and Crookston expansion
- $50,000
International Institute of Minnesota · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
For support for the We Will Live documentary
- $50,000
International Potato Center · 2022
Improving agrobiodiversity and seed systems research for development in the Andes
- $50,000
Jugaad Leadership Program · St Cloud, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Kaddatz Galleries · Fergus Falls, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Kulture Klub Collaborative · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources · 2022
For Applying participatory decision-making processes to support smallholder farmers actions for nutrition-sensitive and sustainable local agri-food systems
- $50,000
Merrick Community Services · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Minnesota - State of · St Paul, MN · 2022
To create a Minnesota action plan for scaling up the adoption of soil health management practices that mitigate the impacts of climate change and increase landscape resiliency
- $50,000
Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Minnesota Center for Employee Ownership · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Minnesota Community Land Trust Coalition · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Minnesota Council On Foundations · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To support intermediaries in equitably distributing American Rescue Plan and state surplus funds
- $50,000
Minnesota Indigenous Business Alliance · St Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Minnesota Music Coalition · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Minnesota Orchestral Association · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Minnesota Theater Alliance · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Mixed Blood Theatre Company · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For project and general operating support
- $50,000
Monkeybear'S Harmolodic Workshop · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
National Center for Family Philanthropy · Washington, DC · 2022
For racial justice learning and action networks
- $50,000
Nautilus Music Theater · St Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Neighborhood Funders Group · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support NFG's Integrated Rural Strategies Group to advance the Campaign to Support Black Farmers
- $50,000
New Arab American Theater Works · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
New Native Theatre · St Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
To support collaborative efforts that help reduce gun violence in the United States by supporting rational, evidence-based policies at the local, state, and federal levels
- $50,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
To support powerful organizations rooted in, and accountable to, multi-racial and multi-class bases within states
- $50,000
New York Mills Arts Retreat · New York Mills, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Nonprofit Infomation Networking Association · Boston, MA · 2022
To support NPQ's economic justice program and related curriculum development work, which advances understanding among nonprofits and social movement activists about what economic justice requires and how to achieve it
- $50,000
Nonviolent Peaceforce · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
To build capacity to grow the impact and scope of local efforts to reimagine safety and address community requests for skills workshops
- $50,000
Our Streets Minneapolis · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Outfront Minnesota Community Services · St Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Park Square Theatre Company · St Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement · Washington, DC · 2022
To support a pooled fund that aims to inspire philanthropic interest and investment at the intersection of faith and democracy
- $50,000
Plymouth Christian Youth Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To support artists and arts programs at the Capri Theater in North Minneapolis
- $50,000
Prg · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Price Faye Michele · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For the 2021 Distinguished Artist Award
- $50,000
Public Functionary · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Pueblos De Lucha Y Esperanza · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Recharge America · Mill Valley, CA · 2022
To support Recharge Minnesota to work with rural leaders and communities to support transportation electrification
- $50,000
Research Community and Organizational Development Associates · 2022
Contribution of the Farmer Research Network to resilient food systems through agro ecological intensification in Singida
- $50,000
Rocky Mountain Institute · Boulder, CO · 2022
To support a cost-effective and equitable transition from coal-fired generation in the Midwest
- $50,000
Rondo Community Land Trust · St Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Rosy Simas Danse · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Social Enterprise Msp · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
To fund the expansion of our community-led Pillar Event series that activates communities to build strength and capacity around funding, talent, quality of life, and support systems for social entrepreneurs, and for gen… read allTo fund the expansion of our community-led Pillar Event series that activates communities to build strength and capacity around funding, talent, quality of life, and support systems for social entrepreneurs, and for general operating support less
- $50,000
Solar United Neighbors · Washington, DC · 2022
To build broad and deep momentum toward a clean energy transition with distributed solar and community benefits with a focus on greater Minnesota
- $50,000
Somali Artifact and Cultural Museum · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
St Paul Chamber of Commerce Foundation · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
To organize stakeholders in the east metro to prioritize a clean transportation system
- $50,000
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders · Santa Barbara, CA · 2022
To support policy development and funder organizing to reduce emissions from working lands and to advance carbon sequestration strategies
- $50,000
Taikoarts Midwest · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Teatro Del Pueblo · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Teton Raptor Center · Wilson, WY · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Textile Center of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
The Loft · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For strategic planning process
- $50,000
The Minneapolis Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To support key community wealth building initiatives in North Minneapolis
- $50,000
The Moving Company · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
The Network for Better Futures · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To accelerate economic mobility and strengthen families
- $50,000
The New York Community Trust · New York, NY · 2022
For the Ragin Family Fund
- $50,000
The Redemption Project · Bloomington, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Theatre B · Moorhead, MN · 2022
For general operating support
- $50,000
Third Way Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
To support the dissemination of findings related to gun violence prevention policies
- $50,000
Twin Cities Media Alliance · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For creating support structures for professional development, peer connection and collaboration, that enables BIPOC artists to embed new narratives, advocate for support, and thrive as working artists; and to develop a … read allFor creating support structures for professional development, peer connection and collaboration, that enables BIPOC artists to embed new narratives, advocate for support, and thrive as working artists; and to develop a business plan less
- $50,000
Virginia Organizing · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
To organize a series of climate, health, and equity convenings in the Midwest for nonprofit, philanthropic, health, tribal, public sector, and other regional stakeholders

