Awarded Grants

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Listed below are 2023 and 2024 grants in our areas for interest. You may scroll to see all areas, use the navigation links at bottom, or use a search to find grants.

2024 Expanding Opportunities for Youth and Families

Organization Name Website Purpose Amount
826 MSP www.826msp.org After-School Writing Lab $30,000
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation www.wilder.org Wilder Child Development Center $40,000
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation www.wilder.org Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood $60,000
Baby's Space: A Place to Grow www.babyspace.org Unrestricted $40,000
*Black Men Teach www.blackmenteach.org Unrestricted $60,000
Centro Tyrone Guzman www.centromn.org Unrestricted $50,000
*CLUES www.clues.org YA! Youth in Action $70,000
ComMUSICation www.commusicationmn.org Unrestricted $40,000
*Cultural Wellness Center www.culturalwellnesscenter.org Unrestricted $90,000
Ed Allies www.edalliesmn.org Student-Centered Education Justice $40,000
Educators for Excellence-Minnesota e4e.org/chapters/minnesota Unrestricted $40,000
Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches (GMCC) www.gmcc.org Lake Street Youth Labs $20,000
Greater Twin Cities United Way www.gtcuw.org 80x3 $50,000
Hmong American Partnership www.hmong.org Youth Job Skills Training program $40,000
*Irreducible Grace Foundation www.irgrace.org Unrestricted $70,000
Juxtaposition Arts, Inc www.juxtapositionarts.org JXTALabs Program $50,000
Legal Rights Center www.legalrightscenter.org Unrestricted $30,000
*Mi CASA MN www.micasamn.org Unrestricted $60,000
Minnesota African Women's Association www.mawanet.org AIGLE Program $30,000
Minnesota Education Equity Partnership www.mneep.org Unrestricted $65,000
*Montessori American Indian Childcare Center Inc. www.americanindianmontessori.net/home.html Unrestricted $150,000
*Neighborhood House www.neighb.org Unrestricted $80,000
Northside Achievement Zone www.northsideachievement.org Unrestricted $100,000
*Northside Boxing Club www.northsideboxing.org Unrestricted $60,000
*People Serving People www.peopleservingpeople.org Unrestricted $150,000
Phyllis Wheatley Community Center www.phylliswheatley.org Unrestricted $50,000
Smart North www.smartnorth.org Unrestricted $30,000
*Sol Of The Cities www.playwithsol.com Unrestricted $60,000
Solutions Not Suspensions (f/s Ed Allies) www.solutionsnotsuspensions.org Unrestricted $25,000
Somali Youth and Family Development Center www.somfam.org SOMFAM’s East African Youth Education $30,000
Southside Family Nurturing Center www.ssfnc.org Unrestricted $45,000
The Family Partnership www.thefamilypartnership.org Multicultural Therapeutic Preschool $50,000
The Language Attitude Institute www.languageattitude.org Creative Leadership Coaching $30,000
The Minneapolis Foundation www.minneapolisfoundation.org Northside Youth Enrichment Fund $60,000
Twin Cities Community Arts dba All City Music (f/s Chops Inc.) www.allcitymusic.org Unrestricted $20,000
Urban Roots MN www.urbanrootsmn.org Unrestricted $35,000
Voices for Racial Justice www.voicesforracialjustice.org Unrestricted $35,000
Way to Grow www.mplswaytogrow.org Unrestricted $75,000
*WE WIN Institute, Inc. www.we-win.org Unrestricted $80,000
YMCA of the North www.ymcanorth.org YMCA Beacons Program $35,000
Youth Leadership Initiative www.yli-mn.org Unrestricted $30,000
*Youthprise www.youthprise.org Unrestricted $100,000


*Multi-Year Payable Over Two Years (2024 & 2025)

2024 Strengthening Developing Communities

Central America
Organization Name Website Purpose Amount
Agua Para La Vida www.aguaparalavida.org/en/home/ Unrestricted $20,000
ANADESA (fiscally sponsored by Natik Esperanza) www.natik.org/anadesa Unrestricted $20,000
Common Hope www.commonhope.org Unrestricted $20,000
CREA www.creanicaragua.org Unrestricted $20,000
Educate2Envision www.educate2envision.org Unrestricted $20,000
Fabretto's Children Foundation www.fabretto.org Honduran Youth Education & Training $50,000
Glasswing International www.glasswing.org Empower and Evolve: education in Honduras $30,000
Groundswell International www.groundswellinternational.org Addressing Food Insecurity in Honduras $40,000
Guatemalan Tomorrow Fund www.thegtfund.org Unrestricted $40,000
Pueblo a Pueblo (fiscally sponsored by Natik Esperanza) www.puebloapueblo.org Unrestricted $20,000
Seeds for Progress www.seedsforprogress.org/?lang=en Unrestricted $20,000
Tejiendo Futuros www.tejiendofuturos.org/en/inicio-eng/ Unrestricted $40,000
Thousand Currents www.thousandcurrents.org Unrestricted $75,000
West, East, and Southern Africa
Organization Name Website Purpose Amount
African Visionary Fund (Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda) www.africanvisionary.org Unrestricted $40,000
AFRICE (fiscally sponsored by Gaia Fondation) www.africeug.org Unrestricted $20,000
CREATE! www.createaction.org Unrestricted $35,000
Eastern Congo Initiative www.easterncongo.org Unrestricted $90,000
Friends of Raising the Village www.raisingthevillage.org Unrestricted $30,000
Mama Hope (LDA Multi-African Countries) www.mamahope.org Unrestricted $25,000
Myraid USA www.mavuno.org Mavuno Academy Project $20,000
Myriad USA www.maarifaproject.org Maarifa Learning Academy $10,000
OneVillage Partners www.onevillagepartners.org Unrestricted $60,000
Partners in Food Solutions (Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia) www.partnersinfoodsolutions.com Unrestricted $30,000
Root Capital www.rootcapital.org Unrestricted $40,000
The Chain Collaborative www.thechaincollaborative.org Unrestricted $20,000
The Nature Conservancy www.nature.org/en-us/ Tuungane $60,000
Wandikweza www.wandikweza.org Unrestricted $25,000
WellShare International www.wellshareinternational.org Together for Health/Afya kwa Pamoja $30,000

2023 Sustaining Environmental Systems

Organization Website Project Amount
Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute www.anishinaabeagriculture.org Hemp-based Housing Eco. $70,000.00
Appetite For Change www.afcmn.org Urban Agriculture $60,000.00
Bancroft Neighborhood Association www.bancroftneighborhood.org Environmental Stewardship $50,000.00
Climate Generation www.climategen.org Youth Environmental Action $50,000.00
Community Members for Environmental Justice (fiscally sponsored by Tides Center) www.cmejustice.org Unrestricted $70,000.00
Dream of Wild Health www.dreamofwildhealth.org Unrestricted $70,000.00
East Phillips Neighborhood Institute www.epnifarm.org Unrestricted $70,000.00
Frogtown Green (fiscally sponsored by Propel Nonprofits) www.frogtowngreen.com Unrestricted $20,000.00
Hmong American Farmer Association www.hmongfarmers.com Training small-scale farmers $70,000.00
Hope Community, Inc. www.hope-community.org Food, Land and Community Program $60,000.00
Land Stewardship Project www.landstewardshipproject.org Equitable Land Transition Emerg. Farmers $50,000.00
Minnesota Land Trust www.mnland.org Boreal Wetlands Restoration $30,000.00
Mississippi Park Connection www.parkconnection.org Unrestricted $60,000.00
Northside Residents Redevelopment Council www.nrrc.org Healthy Urban Living $50,000.00
Philadelphia Community Farm www.phillyfarm.org Liberation and Land Healing $50,000.00
Prairie Island Indian Community www.prairieisland.org Food Sovereignty Initiative $45,000.00
The Belwin Conservancy www.belwin.org Anishinabe Academy $30,000.00
The Good Acre www.thegoodacre.org Unrestricted $60,000.00
Urban Roots MN www.urbanrootsmn.org Conservation Youth Internship $30,000.00
Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi (formerly known as Lower Phalen Creek Project) www.lowerphalencreek.org Daylighting of Phalen Creek $70,000.00