Funding search · higher education access · Minnesota
Who funds higher education access work in Minnesota
13 funders have a record of paying for higher education access work by Minnesota recipients: 22 grants totaling $3.4M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Aditus Foundation ($72,500), Cargill Foundation ($885,000) and Laura and John Arnold Foundation ($36,850).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Minnesota recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Aditus FoundationMinneapolis, MN
4 matching grants · $72,500 · through 2025Largest: $46,000 to WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — support scholarship programs & college access programs
Largest: $450,000 to COLLEGE POSSIBLE — college access & success programming and fafsa support services
Largest: $26,570 to COLLEGE POSSIBLE — to fund a low-cost randomized controlled trial on the grantee's college access and completion programs.
Largest: $6,000 to COLLEGE POSSIBLE - WA (formerly College Access Now — college possible washington: early college awareness & access to post-secondary education
Largest: $4,000 to COLLEGE POSSIBLE — college access and success program
Largest: $1.4M to COLLEGE POSSIBLE — to promote college access & success for high achieving low and middle - income students
Largest: $200,000 to COLLEGE POSSIBLE — college access & success programs
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $400,000 · through 2021Largest: $200,000 to College Possible — support for results by degrees - chicago (no tickets or benefits). support for the chicago office's emergency funding needs of students who are attending 4-year colleges/universiti…
Largest: $50,000 to College Possible — general operating support for college possible college access and success programming
Largest: $120,000 to COLLEGE POSSIBLE — to support the implementation and integration phases of a merger between college possible and college forward, two leading college access and success organizations.
Largest: $200,000 to College Possible — for support of college access and success initiatives in new york city
Largest: $25,000 to COLLEGE POSSIBLE — college possible's college access and success programs empower students from under invested communities to achieve their goal of earning a college degree
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