How much does Minnesota Humanities Center give?

Minnesota Humanities Center reported 90 itemized grants totaling $3,912,543, out of $4,201,323 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 90 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Minnesota Humanities Center fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (65%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Health (6%).

Who are Minnesota Humanities Center's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Minnesota Children's Museum ($3.4M), Hunger Solutions Minnesota ($2.6M), Childrens Museum of Southern Minnesota ($873k).

Does Minnesota Humanities Center fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Humanities Center?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The McKnight Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Fr Bigelow Foundation.

Where is Minnesota Humanities Center based?

Minnesota Humanities Center is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

Minnesota Humanities Center

To spark positive change by increasing collective understanding of ourselves, our communities, and our histories through shared experiences.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 90
Itemized grants FY2024: 90
Organizations funded FY2023: 59%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $3.9M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $24,936
Largest grant, FY2024: $472,500
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 90; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $44M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 59% of the organizations Minnesota Humanities Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	89	$3.9M	60%
FY2023	90	$4.5M	59%
FY2022	76	$3.0M	83%
FY2021	58	$2.5M	41%
FY2020	71	$1.7M	76%
FY2019	33	$1.8M	48%
FY2018	28	$2.2M	68%
FY2017	13	$1.8M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$14MFood & Nutrition$2.8MHealth$1.3MHuman Services$787kPublic Benefit$736kCrime & Legal$441kCommunity Improvement$330kCivil Rights$287kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Minnesota Children's Museum	$3,384,974	9	8%
Hunger Solutions Minnesota	$2,586,229	9	5%
Childrens Museum of Southern Minnesota	$872,739	9	17%
Duluth Children's Museum Inc	$671,130	9	26%
Judy Garland Childrens Museum	$555,345	7	74%
Springboard for the Arts	$527,184	7	4%
Ka Joog Nonprofit Organization	$441,780	8	20%
Veterans Defense Project	$441,274	3	97%
Great River Childrens Museum	$309,500	4	7%
Learning Law and Democracy Foundation	$288,665	6	100%

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All grantees of Minnesota Humanities Center by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Minnesota Children's Museum	$3,384,974	9	8%
Hunger Solutions Minnesota	$2,586,229	9	5%
Childrens Museum of Southern Minnesota	$872,739	9	17%
Duluth Children's Museum Inc	$671,130	9	26%
Judy Garland Childrens Museum	$555,345	7	74%
Springboard for the Arts	$527,184	7	4%
Ka Joog Nonprofit Organization	$441,780	8	20%
Veterans Defense Project	$441,274	3	97%
Great River Childrens Museum	$309,500	4	7%
Learning Law and Democracy Foundation	$288,665	6	100%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North	$281,937	6	0%
Wheel and Cog Children's Museum	$249,747	6	60%
The Children's Museum of Rochester Inc	$246,000	3	18%
Somali Community Resettlement	$233,898	7	10%
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop	$197,500	5	14%
Somali Museum and Cultural Center	$192,889	7	9%
Giiwedinong Museum and Cultural Center of the Nort	$177,188	2	73%
Otter Cove Childrens Museum	$151,769	3	28%
Wondertrek Children's Museum	$145,447	3	92%
The Works	$120,425	3	6%
Hmong Cultural Center	$114,909	4	11%
Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood For	$112,284	2	9%
Asian Economic Development Association	$105,203	2	10%
Sead Project	$101,000	4	9%
Minnesota Civic Youth	$95,988	2	n/a
African Immigrants Community Servic	$91,000	3	12%
Sgu Veterans & Families of USA Inc	$88,412	4	93%
North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems	$86,833	4	1%
Green Card Voices	$84,021	4	12%
Minnesota Museum of American Art	$79,200	3	2%
The Rondo Community Land Trust	$78,750	2	1%
Ramsey County General Account	$77,759	1	n/a
The Film Society of Minneapolis St Paul	$77,000	2	3%
City of Saint Paul	$73,125	1	n/a
(Neo)Muralismos de Mexico	$66,500	2	20%
Speaking Out Collective	$65,000	2	26%
Minnesota Zoo	$64,125	1	n/a
MIGIZI Communications Inc	$60,858	1	2%
Compas Inc	$58,625	2	3%
Twin Cities Film Fest	$54,132	2	10%
United Way of Central Minnesota	$52,211	2	1%
Hawj United of Minnesota	$51,376	2	n/a
Communidades Latinas Unidas En Servico Inc	$51,000	3	0%
Hmong Museum of Minnesota	$50,977	2	4%
Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia	$48,500	2	n/a
Unitecloud	$47,400	3	10%
Rondo Ave Inc	$45,590	1	n/a
East Phillips Neighborhood Institute	$43,825	2	6%
Native American Community Development Institute	$42,589	2	2%
Arcata Press	$42,106	3	9%
Spark the Children's Museum of Rochester	$42,000	1	n/a
Dakhota Iapi Okhodakichiye	$41,437	3	16%
Twin Cities Rise	$40,855	2	1%
Walker West Music Academy	$40,791	2	0%
United Family Practice Health Center	$40,659	1	0%
Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television Corporation	$40,000	2	1%
In Black Ink	$37,050	2	13%
Somali American Social Service Association	$37,000	2	11%
Planting people growing justice leadership institute	$37,000	4	9%
Dakota Wicohan	$36,250	3	5%
Teatro del Pueblo Inc	$35,000	1	10%
Duluth Art Institute Assoc	$34,407	2	6%
Concordia University St Paul	$34,250	2	0%
Winona County Historical Society	$33,980	4	3%
Minnesota China Friendship Garden Society McFgs	$33,298	2	29%
Dakota County Historical Society	$32,485	4	3%
Pangea World Theater	$31,600	2	1%
826 Msp	$31,492	3	5%
Asal Charities	$29,267	2	n/a
Oyate Hotanin	$28,449	3	7%
Public Art Saint Paul	$27,750	2	8%
Rice County Neighbors United	$27,500	2	n/a
Lower Phalen Creek Project	$27,500	3	1%
Hmong American Farmers Association	$27,000	2	1%
The Tiwahe Foundation	$26,255	1	3%
Midtown Greenway Coalition	$25,000	2	7%
Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations Inc	$25,000	2	4%
The Museum of Russian Art	$25,000	2	1%
Japan America Society of Minnesota	$25,000	2	15%
Wonderlust Productions	$24,960	1	5%
Twin Cities Regional Cable Channel Dba Metro Cable Network Inc	$24,936	2	13%
India Association of Minnesota	$24,000	1	9%
Pillsbury United Communities	$22,722	1	0%
The National Native American Boarding Sc	$22,575	1	0%
Minnesota African American Hertiage Museum and Gallery	$22,500	2	5%
Lajune Thomas Lange International Leadership Insitute	$22,372	1	n/a
Oromia 11	$21,275	2	n/a
New Arab American Theater Works	$20,800	2	34%
Olmsted County Historical Society	$20,000	1	2%
Sinclair Lewis Foundation	$20,000	1	n/a
Minnesota Transportation Museum Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Division of Indian Work	$20,000	1	1%
Alliance Francaise de Mpls-St Paul	$20,000	1	1%
Freeborn County Historical Society	$20,000	1	5%
Minors in Need of Resettlement Inc Minors	$20,000	1	18%
Center for Hmong Arts and Talent	$20,000	2	5%
More Than a Single Story Inc	$19,545	2	10%
St Catherine University	$19,250	2	0%
Youthprise	$18,697	2	0%
The Great Northern Winter Festival	$18,069	2	1%
Grassroots Culture	$18,009	2	n/a
Urban Roots Mn	$18,000	2	1%
Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research	$17,500	2	1%
Telling Queer History	$17,500	3	5%
Homefront Resources Center	$17,000	1	n/a
St Louis County Historical Society	$15,408	2	2%
Kairos Alive	$15,233	1	6%
Vocalessence	$15,070	1	1%
Juxtaposition Arts Inc	$15,000	2	1%
American Indian Community Housing Organization	$15,000	1	1%
Thinkself Inc	$15,000	2	1%
Diversity Council	$15,000	1	2%
Every Third Saturday Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Minneapolis Public School	$14,250	2	n/a
Mower County Soil and Water Conservation District	$13,829	1	n/a
Minnesota State University Moorhead Foundation Inc	$13,441	1	n/a
Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community	$13,425	2	1%
Brownbody	$13,125	2	2%
Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts	$13,125	2	0%
Duluth Art Institute Association	$13,123	1	n/a
The Dial Group Inc	$12,600	1	n/a
Saint Paul Civic Symphony Association 2000 North Central Tow	$11,875	2	20%
Great Lakes Lifeways Institute	$11,550	2	3%
Qalanjo Project	$11,025	2	n/a
Seeds4hope	$10,913	2	24%
Ab Ourhistory	$10,800	1	17%
Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans in Minnesota	$10,000	2	n/a
White Earth Land Recovery Project	$10,000	2	1%
Rondo Center of Diverse Expression	$10,000	1	10%
In Progress	$10,000	2	2%
Twin Cities Media Alliance	$10,000	1	5%
Language Attitude	$10,000	1	n/a
East Side Freedom Library	$10,000	1	2%
Sauk Centre Area Historical Society	$10,000	1	n/a
Ragamala Dance	$10,000	1	2%
Opportunities in Science Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
West Polk Soil and Water Conservation District	$10,000	1	n/a
Fond Du Lac Development	$9,747	1	n/a
Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College	$9,236	2	n/a
Central Area Neighborhood Development Organization	$9,175	2	1%
Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc	$8,799	1	0%
African Economic Development Solutions	$8,729	2	0%
Itasca Water Legacy Partnership	$8,549	1	5%
Twin Cities Iranian Culture Collective	$8,170	1	8%
Great River Educational Arts Theatre	$7,500	1	1%
Faribault Diversity Coalition	$7,500	1	n/a
Red Wing Arts Association	$7,500	1	1%
Asian Media Access	$7,500	2	n/a
African American Registry	$7,500	1	n/a
Native Governance Center	$7,500	1	1%
St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church of Minneapolis Minnesota	$7,500	1	n/a
Black Storytellers Alliance	$7,500	1	n/a
Wood Krueger Initiatives LLC	$7,475	1	n/a
Gustavus Adolphus College	$7,435	1	0%
Soomaal House of Art	$7,340	1	n/a
Friends of the Mississippi River	$7,284	1	0%
Coalition of Asian American Leaders	$7,200	2	0%
Prove Collective	$6,750	1	n/a
Children's Theater Company	$6,750	1	n/a
20 Theatre Company Twin Cities	$6,750	1	4%
210 Gallery and Art Center Colleen Shati	$6,606	1	n/a
Indigenous Roots	$6,600	2	1%
Queerspace Collective	$6,450	2	1%
Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project	$6,302	1	n/a
Center for Community Services	$6,000	1	9%
Minnesota Brain Injury Alliance	$6,000	1	0%
Carleton College	$5,972	1	0%
East Metro Integration District 6067 Dba Equity Alliance Mn	$5,598	1	n/a
Frogtown Neighborhood Association	$5,381	1	2%
Minnesota Historical Society	$5,170	1	0%
Clean River Partners Inc	$5,100	1	n/a
African Immigrant Community Services	$5,000	1	n/a
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society	$5,000	1	2%
Hopewell Music Cooperative-North	$5,000	1	2%
Recovery Community Network Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Northfield Historical Society Inc	$5,000	1	2%
Ramsey County Historical Society Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Arts-Us	$5,000	1	n/a
Voices for Racial Justice	$5,000	1	0%
Coffee House Press Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Minnesota Military and Veterans Museum	$5,000	1	3%

Plus 114 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.

Minnesota Humanities Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 137 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 137.

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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.

The McKnight FoundationMN117× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McKnight Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Propel Nonprofits · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Minnesota Historical Society · Youthprise · Target Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Bush Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Minnesota Humanities Center

How much does Minnesota Humanities Center give?: Minnesota Humanities Center reported 90 itemized grants totaling $3,912,543, out of $4,201,323 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 90 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Minnesota Humanities Center fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (65%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Health (6%).
Who are Minnesota Humanities Center's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Minnesota Children's Museum ($3.4M), Hunger Solutions Minnesota ($2.6M), Childrens Museum of Southern Minnesota ($873k).
Does Minnesota Humanities Center fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Humanities Center?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The McKnight Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Fr Bigelow Foundation.
Where is Minnesota Humanities Center based?: Minnesota Humanities Center is based in MN.