Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Minneapolis, Minnesota

325
foundations with a Minneapolis address
$914.1M
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
69
say they accept unsolicited
$10,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 325 foundations that gave a Minneapolis, Minnesota address on their tax filing — 306 private foundations and 19 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $914.1 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 69 of them (21%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Minneapolis foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 325 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 44 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Minneapolis, Minnesota
The McKnight Foundation$100,000$145.9M$1,150–$10MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation$5,000$47.9M$50–$10MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Target Foundation$100,000$23.1M$15,000–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Medtronic Communities Foundation$250,000$15.6M$1,000–$8.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Pohlad Family Foundation$626$14M$25–$1.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Cargill Foundation$100,000$13M$500–$1.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
RBC Foundation - USA$450,425$10.4M$15,000–$9.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Xcel Energy Foundation$513$7.7M$5–$619,552FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Mortenson Family Foundation$15,000$6.2M$1,000–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Piper Sandler Foundation$4,000$4.5M$387–$2.2MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience$75,000$3.4M$16,500–$110,310FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
John and Denise Graves Foundation$30,000$2.8M$516–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Beverly Foundation$16,500$2.6M$500–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ciresi Walburn Foundation$50,000$2.4M$5,000–$608,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Carolyn Foundation$999,918$2M$34,365–$2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Living Springs Foundation$5,000$1.5M$500–$277,112FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Donaldson Foundation$10,000$1.3M$350–$205,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Janice Gardner Foundation$50,000$1.1M$2,430–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Baratz Family Foundation Inc$428,590$860,180$335,091–$491,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Lipscomb Family Foundation$10,000$772,300$4,000–$203,100FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Collins McDonald Trust Fund$10,800$654,750$3,400–$200,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Stevens Square Foundation$20,000$636,700$750–$30,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Miracle-Ear Foundation$612,155$612,155—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
nVent Foundation$13,750$608,470$2,600–$246,470FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Bright Foundation$19,017$583,614$590–$500,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.