Education Funding in Minnesota
Total granted
$2.5B
Funders
990
Grants
10,747
Organizations funded
912
Minnesota · Grantmakers
Foundations That Fund Education in Minnesota
Imperigo has identified 990 funders that made 10,747 grants totaling $2.5B to 912 education organizations in Minnesota, with a median grant of $20K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.
Top Funders — page 3 of 4
$599K
$1.3M
$12.7M
$371K
$358K
$11.2M
$4.8M
$23.1M
$17.9M
$1.2M
$2.9M
$4.7M
$1.5M
$2.1M
125.
Sanford Group Return
$1.7M
$1.3M
136.
United Way Worldwide
$1.7M
$3.0M
$4.0M
Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to education 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. 17 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.
Other Causes Funded in Minnesota
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 education 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 education funding in Minnesota, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.
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