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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 2 of 4

26. Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation
9 grants to 5 organizations · largest $52K · through 2024 · 1.8% of their giving
$210K
27. Seeding Justice
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $393K · through 2024
$414K
28. United Way of Steele County
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $30K · through 2022 · 3.0% of their giving
$99K
29. Northland Foundation
10 grants to 5 organizations · largest $35K · through 2024 · 1.0% of their giving
$243K
30. The Sheltering Arms Foundation
8 grants to 2 organizations · largest $10K · through 2024 · 2.8% of their giving
$75K
31. Mayo Clinic Group Return
6 grants to 2 organizations · largest $2.4M · through 2024
$3.8M
32. Desperate Tears
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $8K · through 2020 · 100.0% of their giving
$8K
33. United Way of Washington County-East
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $23K · through 2024 · 2.4% of their giving
$56K
34. Propel Nonprofits
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $75K · through 2023
$150K
35. Shalom Thrift Shop Inc
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $19K · through 2024 · 1.8% of their giving
$44K
36. Results Foundation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $15K · through 2019 · 4.8% of their giving
$15K
37. Centennial Youth Hockey Association
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2024 · 2.8% of their giving
$18K
38. United Way of Bemidji Area
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2023 · 1.5% of their giving
$24K
41. Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing
7 grants to 5 organizations · largest $150K · through 2024
$305K
42. Charities Aid Foundation America
26 grants to 12 organizations · largest $165K · through 2024
$753K
43. American Council of Learned Societies
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $154K · through 2023
$154K
44. Communitygiving
6 grants to 2 organizations · largest $71K · through 2024
$133K
45. West Central Initiative
5 grants to 2 organizations · largest $20K · through 2024
$70K
46. Solidaire Network Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $100K · through 2022
$100K
48. East Bay Community Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $275K · through 2023
$350K
49. Minnesota Community Foundation
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $60K · through 2019
$66K
54. Major League Baseball Charities Inc
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $25K · through 2024
$70K
56. United Way Worldwide
4 grants to 3 organizations · largest $79K · through 2020
$145K
58. The Blackbaud Giving Fund
9 grants to 7 organizations · largest $92K · through 2022
$312K
60. Tides Foundation
7 grants to 5 organizations · largest $100K · through 2024
$334K

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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