Minnesota · Public charity
Minnesota Environmental Fund
MINNESOTA ENVIRONMENTAL FUND engages individuals and workplaces to support leading nonprofit organizations that protect, conserve, and restore minnesota's environment, including clean water, natural lands, clean air, and healthy food.
- $313k
- Granted FY2021
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2021
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Itemized, FY2021
- $207k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2021
- $11,123
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $17,830
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 1
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 11% of the organizations Minnesota Environmental Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 19 | $207k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $233k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $407k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $441k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $623k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parks & Trails Council of Minnesota | $147,840 | 5 | 8% |
| Las Vegas Rescue Mission | $145,317 | 5 | 1% |
| North American Water Office Inc | $134,057 | 5 | n/a |
| Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness | $123,005 | 5 | 4% |
| Friends of the Mississippi River | $105,466 | 5 | 1% |
| Clean Water Fund | $104,750 | 5 | 1% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $101,182 | 5 | 0% |
| Tree Trust | $100,796 | 5 | 1% |
| Wilderness Inquiry Inc | $98,826 | 5 | 1% |
| Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy | $94,647 | 5 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parks & Trails Council of Minnesota | $147,840 | 5 | 8% |
| Las Vegas Rescue Mission | $145,317 | 5 | 1% |
| North American Water Office Inc | $134,057 | 5 | n/a |
| Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness | $123,005 | 5 | 4% |
| Friends of the Mississippi River | $105,466 | 5 | 1% |
| Clean Water Fund | $104,750 | 5 | 1% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $101,182 | 5 | 0% |
| Tree Trust | $100,796 | 5 | 1% |
| Wilderness Inquiry Inc | $98,826 | 5 | 1% |
| Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy | $94,647 | 5 | 1% |
| National Audubon Society Inc | $94,377 | 5 | 0% |
| Voyageurs Conservancy | $93,848 | 5 | 7% |
| Land Stewardship Project | $93,458 | 5 | 1% |
| Womens Environmental Institute at Amador Hill | $90,609 | 5 | 7% |
| Environmental Initiative | $89,109 | 5 | 1% |
| Minnesota Wildlife Federation | $85,452 | 5 | 47% |
| Izaak Walton League of America Inc | $83,880 | 5 | 11% |
| The Neighborhood Recycling Corporation | $76,648 | 4 | 0% |
| Climate Generation | $18,551 | 1 | 2% |
| Minnesota Food Association | $18,297 | 1 | n/a |
| Freshwater Society | $5,542 | 1 | 0% |
| Mississippi Park Connection | $5,395 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Minnesota Environmental Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Elmer L & Eleanor J Andersen Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · Longview Foundation · The Nash Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The K Foundation
How this is measured
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About Minnesota Environmental Fund
- How much does Minnesota Environmental Fund give?
- Minnesota Environmental Fund reported 19 itemized grants totaling $206,513, out of $312,949 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Minnesota Environmental Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Environment (93%), Employment (2%), Housing & Shelter (2%).
- Who are Minnesota Environmental Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Parks & Trails Council of Minnesota ($148k), Las Vegas Rescue Mission ($145k), North American Water Office Inc ($134k).
- Does Minnesota Environmental Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Environmental Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Pohlad Family Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is Minnesota Environmental Fund based?
- Minnesota Environmental Fund is based in MN.
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