Top Giving Foundations: Minnesota

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Top Giving Foundations: Minnesota

The following list of top giving foundations in Minnesota is derived from The Grantsmanship Center'ssm funding databases. All of the foundations listed have been prescreened to ensure that they have a staff, issue RFPs, or otherwise indicate an interest in receiving proposals. This also means that some foundations who give large amounts of money have been omitted because they do not meet these qualifications. A maximum of forty foundations is listed for each state.

More detailed information about these foundations- including their program areas, types of funding, application procedures, and more- can be found on GrantDomain - The Grantsmanship Center'ssm exclusive online database of funding information.

The top giving foundations in the state of Minnesota:

Foundation Name	Total Annual Giving

The McKnight Foundation	$90,863,056
The Wells Fargo Foundation	$60,979,034
The Minneapolis Foundation	$43,807,493
Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation	$38,354,110
The Bush Foundation	$34,656,828
Otto Bremer Foundation	$27,819,371
Medtronic Foundation	$26,339,388
3M Foundation	$22,051,063
Minnesota Community Foundation	$21,153,020
U.S. Bancorp Foundation	$20,818,217
General Mills Foundation	$20,750,048
Best Buy Children's Foundation	$15,111,680
The Blandin Foundation	$13,915,649
Northwest Area Foundation	$12,979,205
Arts Midwest	$11,573,176
Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation	$9,863,916
Target Foundation	$9,750,000
F. R. Bigelow Foundation	$8,091,034
St. Jude Medical Foundation	$7,557,260
The Xcel Energy Foundation	$7,387,459
Catholic Community Foundation in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis	$7,175,707
Ecolab Foundation	$7,165,628
The Cargill Foundation	$7,107,658
The Hormel Foundation	$6,761,189
Central Minnesota Community Foundation	$6,280,406
Park Nicollet Foundation	$5,027,063
Carl and Eloise Pohlad Family Foundation	$4,940,951
SUPERVALU Foundation	$4,506,268
Curtis L. Carlson Foundation	$4,329,106
The Pentair Foundation	$4,219,587
Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation	$4,036,900
Northland Foundation	$3,912,741
Andreas Foundation	$3,794,138
I.A. O'Shaughnessy Foundation	$3,760,894
Northwest Minnesota Foundation (NWMF)	$3,546,807
Initiative Foundation	$3,535,281
Fairview Foundation	$3,419,892
West Central Initiative	$3,410,441
Hugh J. Andersen Foundation	$3,404,937
George Family Foundation	$3,294,708