How much does Minnesota Justice Foundation give?

Minnesota Justice Foundation reported 11 itemized grants totaling $85,200, out of $97,584 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Minnesota Justice Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (87%), Environment (5%), Human Services (3%).

Who are Minnesota Justice Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southern Mn Regional Legal Services Inc ($149k), Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance ($133k), Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc ($49k).

Does Minnesota Justice Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Justice Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, The Minneapolis Foundation.

Where is Minnesota Justice Foundation based?

Minnesota Justice Foundation is based in MN.

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Minnesota Justice Foundation

The MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION creates opportunities for law students to engage in public interest and pro bono legal service and increases the capacity of legal organizations that serve the public interest.

$98k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 11
Itemized grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2024: 10%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $85k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $6,400
Largest grant, FY2025: $13,300
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 16; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $687k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Minnesota Justice Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalEnvironmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthOther

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
FY2025still arriving	11	$85k	9%
FY2024	10	$82k	10%
FY2023	11	$100k	27%
FY2022	15	$134k	13%
FY2021	16	$119k	38%
FY2020	13	$111k	77%
FY2019	3	$39k	33%
FY2017	2	$28k	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 2025.

Crime & Legal$608kEnvironment$36kHuman Services$19kHealth$18kCivil Rights$16k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Southern Mn Regional Legal Services Inc	$149,050	8	0%
Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance	$132,700	8	0%
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc	$49,000	7	0%
Anishinabe Legal Services	$36,700	6	1%
Central Minnesota Legal Services	$36,200	6	1%
Legal Assistance of Dakota County Ltd	$24,650	4	2%
Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota	$24,200	4	0%
Children's Law Center of Minnesota	$23,950	4	1%
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy	$23,550	4	0%
Minnesota Zoo	$21,900	2	n/a

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All grantees of Minnesota Justice Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Southern Mn Regional Legal Services Inc	$149,050	8	0%
Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance	$132,700	8	0%
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc	$49,000	7	0%
Anishinabe Legal Services	$36,700	6	1%
Central Minnesota Legal Services	$36,200	6	1%
Legal Assistance of Dakota County Ltd	$24,650	4	2%
Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota	$24,200	4	0%
Children's Law Center of Minnesota	$23,950	4	1%
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy	$23,550	4	0%
Minnesota Zoo	$21,900	2	n/a
Legal Rights Center	$19,400	3	0%
International Institute of Minnesota	$18,650	2	0%
Neighborhood Justice Center Inc	$18,500	3	1%
Legal Aid Service of Northeastern Minnesota	$17,300	3	0%
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe	$13,000	2	n/a
Justice North	$12,500	2	n/a
Rainbow Health Initiative	$12,000	2	n/a
White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians	$12,000	2	n/a
Battered Women's Legal Advocacy Project	$11,300	2	1%
Minnesota Land Trust	$6,400	1	0%
Clean Up the River Environment	$6,250	1	0%
Tubman	$6,000	1	0%
Council on American-Islamic Relations Minnesota	$6,000	1	1%
Legal Assistance of Olmsted County	$5,300	1	1%
American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota Foundation	$5,300	1	0%
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board	$4,900	1	n/a

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Minnesota Justice Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 20.

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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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN36.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Minnesota State Bar Foundation · Fredrikson & Byron Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Robins Kaplan Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Equal Justice Works · Margaret a Cargill 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 Justice Foundation

How much does Minnesota Justice Foundation give?: Minnesota Justice Foundation reported 11 itemized grants totaling $85,200, out of $97,584 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Minnesota Justice Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (87%), Environment (5%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Minnesota Justice Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southern Mn Regional Legal Services Inc ($149k), Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance ($133k), Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc ($49k).
Does Minnesota Justice Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Justice Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is Minnesota Justice Foundation based?: Minnesota Justice Foundation is based in MN.