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Foundations That Fund Crime & Legal Aid in Minnesota

Imperigo has identified 200 funders that made 1,353 grants totaling $112.7M to 115 crime & legal aid organizations in Minnesota, with a median grant of $20K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Crime & Legal Aid Funding in Minnesota

Total granted $112.7M
Funders 200
Grants 1,353
Organizations funded 115

Top Funders — page 1 of 4

1. Family Housing Fund
23 grants to 6 organizations · largest $325K · through 2023 · 10.2% of their giving
$1.8M
2. Mightycause Charitable Foundation
59 grants to 24 organizations · largest $6.2M · through 2024 · 2.3% of their giving
$7.0M
3. Fredrikson & Byron Foundation
34 grants to 7 organizations · largest $100K · through 2024 · 18.4% of their giving
$660K
4. Hennepin County Bar Association
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $90K · through 2023 · 84.9% of their giving
$450K
5. Legal Services Corporation
6 grants to 2 organizations · largest $3.0M · through 2023
$14.1M
6. Greater Twin Cities United Way
20 grants to 6 organizations · largest $287K · through 2024 · 2.7% of their giving
$2.5M
7. The Minneapolis Foundation
81 grants to 32 organizations · largest $764K · through 2024
$5.8M
8. The Constellation Fund
12 grants to 4 organizations · largest $200K · through 2024 · 4.7% of their giving
$935K
9. Arlington House
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $176K · through 2022 · 25.9% of their giving
$176K
10. United Way of Carlton and Pine County Area
10 grants to 2 organizations · largest $24K · through 2024 · 19.4% of their giving
$175K
11. Women's Foundation of Minnesota
31 grants to 13 organizations · largest $56K · through 2024 · 4.2% of their giving
$701K
12. Faegre Drinker Foundation
6 grants to 2 organizations · largest $48K · through 2024 · 9.9% of their giving
$238K
13. Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation
75 grants to 34 organizations · largest $215K · through 2024
$3.5M
14. Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $181K · through 2024 · 2.7% of their giving
$705K
15. United Way of Southeast Minnesota
11 grants to 3 organizations · largest $50K · through 2024 · 4.8% of their giving
$351K
16. Head of the Lakes United Way
9 grants to 2 organizations · largest $49K · through 2024 · 5.6% of their giving
$281K
17. Southeastern Minnesota Area Agency on Aging Inc
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $110K · through 2024 · 2.9% of their giving
$524K
18. Redf
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $195K · through 2024 · 1.7% of their giving
$561K
19. Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $173K · through 2024 · 1.2% of their giving
$768K
20. Greater Mankato Area United Way Inc
12 grants to 2 organizations · largest $56K · through 2024 · 3.0% of their giving
$297K
21. Lathrop Gpm Foundation
4 grants to 2 organizations · largest $34K · through 2024 · 8.7% of their giving
$74K
22. Rochester Area Foundation
12 grants to 4 organizations · largest $126K · through 2024 · 1.4% of their giving
$343K
23. Association of Corporate Counsel Group Return
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $17K · through 2023 · 9.5% of their giving
$48K
24. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
8 grants to 2 organizations · largest $875K · through 2024
$2.2M
25. The Thielen Foundation Inc C/O Lukas Inveiss
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $100K · through 2022 · 3.9% of their giving
$100K

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to crime & legal aid work in Minnesota, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 11 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

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About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering crime & legal aid work, with an address in Minnesota. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable crime & legal aid funding in Minnesota, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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