Minnesota · Public charity
Conservation Minnesota
CONSERVATION MINNESOTA's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
- $260k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $101k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $53,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $53,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $776k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Conservation Minnesota funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $101k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $108k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $190k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $102k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $96k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $96k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $48k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc | $342,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Environmental Initiative | $85,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Springboard for the Arts | $75,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Rainbow Research Inc | $48,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Minnesota Land Trust | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($150k), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Conservation Minnesota
- How much does Conservation Minnesota give?
- Conservation Minnesota reported 2 itemized grants totaling $101,000, out of $259,800 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Conservation Minnesota fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (63%), Civil Rights (10%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Conservation Minnesota's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc ($342k), Environmental Initiative ($86k), Springboard for the Arts ($75k).
- Does Conservation Minnesota fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Conservation Minnesota?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Conservation Minnesota based?
- Conservation Minnesota is based in MN.
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