Find the foundations that fund work like yours
Ask who funds your work
Ask the assistant in plain words, or run the same search in Prospects. The answer lists the funders that have paid grants for that work in that place, with how many, how much and how each takes applications. Ask a follow-up and it lists each funder’s grants and stated deadlines.
Twenty-five foundations have funded housing and shelter services in Hennepin County and accept applications or letters of inquiry.
- McKnight Foundation33 grants, $5.3M in total, typical award $200,000Accepts applications, with stated deadlines
- Pohlad Family Foundation26 grants, $2.5M in total, typical award $112,500Letter of inquiry first
- Target Foundation24 grants, $1.9M in total, typical award $75,000Accepts applications
- Richard M Schulze Family Foundation20 grants, $811,500 in total, typical award $35,000Accepts applications
- Otto Bremer Trust14 grants, $1.1M in total, typical award $55,000Accepts applications
- Accepts applications
- Letter of inquiry first
- Where the figures come from
Built from the funders’ own returns
As of 4 October 2026 AnyGrant holds 7,774 Minnesota funders (7,197 private foundations, 344 community foundations and 233 corporate funders) and 39,622 of their IRS returns.
Every funder starts from the The IRS list of tax-exempt organizations: name, EIN, address, classification and reported revenue.. Its grants come from the grant lists on its The annual IRS return of a private foundation. Part XV lists the grants it paid, to whom and for how much. or 990 return, 191,476 awards in all, together with federal Federal money a state, county or other agency receives and awards onward as a subaward. The subrecipient follows the federal rules too. subawards from USAspending. Each figure links to the return or page it came from.
A fit score you can read
Each funder gets a score out of 100 made of four parts. The page shows every part: what it measured, what it found and the points it added. There is no hidden weighting.
- Track record, up to 40
- Grants the funder made to organizations in your field and county. Twenty or more earns all 40.
- Recency, 15
- At least one such grant in the last two fiscal years.
- Budget size, up to 25
- The share of its past grantees with revenue between half and double yours. Without your revenue, its typical grant against the range you ask for.
- Access, up to 20
- Open applications 20, a A short first letter some funders ask for before inviting a full application. first 15, unknown 5, invitation only 0.
Funder profiles
A funder’s page shows its recent grants and returns, its giving by field and by county, its typical grant, the contacts named on its returns, its IRS standing, and how it takes applications: open, a letter of inquiry first, or invitation only. Add it to your funder contacts and log every call and meeting.
Saved prospect searches
Save a prospect search and AnyGrant emails you when a new funder matches it. Funders are added when the catalog is rebuilt each month, so new matches arrive after a rebuild.