The top 40 giving foundations in Minnesota listed below are from GrantDomain. They’re prescreened: they have a staff, issue RFPs, or otherwise indicate interest in receiving grant proposals. Some foundations are omitted, even though they award large grants, because they don’t accept unsolicited grant proposals.
FOUNDATION NAME
The Wells Fargo Foundation
The McKnight Foundation
U.S. Bancorp Foundation
Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation
Minnesota Community Foundation
3M Foundation
Northwest Area Foundation
InFaith Community Foundation
The Hormel Foundation
Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota
The Blandin Foundation
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation
Carl and Eloise Pohlad Family Foundation
Target Foundation
Central Minnesota Community Foundation
Best Buy Foundation
Curtis L. Carlson Family Foundation
Land O'Lakes Foundation
The Cargill Foundation
The Xcel Energy Foundation
Andreas Foundation
F. R. Bigelow Foundation
Ecolab Foundation
Northland Foundation
Patrick and Aimee Butler Family Foundation
George Family Foundation
CHS Foundation
RBC Foundation - USA
I.A. O'Shaughnessy Foundation
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of MN Foundation
Initiative Foundation
J.A. Wedum Foundation
West Central Initiative
TOTAL ANNUAL GIVING
$189,380,780
$23,456,894
$23,287,622
$20,439,714
$18,462,478
$17,274,144
$16,448,298
$15,991,919
$15,207,957
$13,641,903
$12,429,008
$11,087,649
$10,325,406
$9,172,000
$8,387,819
$8,033,354
$7,622,293
$7,615,193
$6,778,500
$6,441,143
$6,230,020
$6,104,991
$5,726,897
$4,975,683
$4,789,250
$4,665,947
$4,312,941
$4,052,645
$3,756,687
$3,702,168
$3,617,772
$3,612,775
$3,470,688