Minnesota · Nonprofit
The McKnight Foundation
The McKnight Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,704,034 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($9,659,034). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $189M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $9.7M
- Net assets
- $2.6B
What The McKnight Foundation does
Programs
GroundBreak Coalition: McKnight serves as lead convenor of the GroundBreak Coalition, a group of over 40 corporate, civic, and philanthropic leaders committed to demonstrating that with enough resources, a racially equitable and carbon-neutral future is possible now. In 2023, GroundBreak secured nearly $1 billion in commitments to fund financial tools and products designed to close racial wealth disparities in Minneapolis- St. Paul. In future years, the coalition will focus on continuing to raise resources and to set up fully independent operations.
$1,704,441 spent2023 West Africa Community of Practice annual convening: The sixteenth annual Community of Practice for collaboration across farmers, researchers, and key folks to collaborate and share findings. The objective of the COP is to refresh relationships within the WAf Community of Practice, strengthen our community, foster resilience in challenging times, Share project results, impacts and learnings, Embrace "Agroecological Transitions" in the WAf context , Foster strategic alignment within the CoP - from the regional vision to individual research questions / experiments to farmers' needs; identify strategic support needs (RMS, AES, Soils), Foster synergies and collaborations on the ground (joint experimentation) to make research more effective and Strengthen student's presentation skills. The COP workshop was held in Niamey, Niger from February 26th-March 04, 2023.
$80,174 spent2023 Andes Community of Practice annual convening: The nineteenth annual Andes Community of Practice was developed as a face-to-face meeting with 63 representatives from CRFS projects, as well as guests from different countries. The objective is to share results of current projects' research over the past year analyzing their learnings and moving towards a joint synthesis. It is to reflect on how to promote changes inspired by agroecology and how to connect with local and global processes. In addition, they promote and deepen connections between COP participants, Farmers, social organizations, representatives of public bodies, NGOs, regional networks, and platforms. Lastly to project the future actions of COP events. The COP workshop was held from December 3-9, 2023.
$71,312 spent2023 Eastern-Southern Africa Community of Practice annual convening: With the general objective of Advancing the COP as a recognized contributor to AE transformation in ESAF, the specific objective of the CoP meeting was to Build networks, social capital and common understanding between all COP members; Exchange the latest results and ideas on agroecology transitions in the region; Understand the evolving nature of CCRP and implications for ES Africa Reflect on the regional TOC and ways it can be made more useful and Contribute to continued development of the COP. The CoP workshop was held in Kampala, Uganda from October 23-27, 2023.
$67,326 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.2B to $2.6B (−20%).
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $4.9M → $4.8M.
From the IRS filings of The McKnight Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
The McKnight Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
The McKnight Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
The McKnight Foundation has grown faster than half of the 153 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 153 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like The McKnight Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The McKnight Foundation?
- The McKnight Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,704,034 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($9,659,034). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The McKnight Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $9,704,034 in grants to The McKnight Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The McKnight Foundation?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,659,034 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The McKnight Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing