PFund Community Grants: $900K Awarded to 70 LGBTQ+ Organizations!
Congratulations to all of the organizations selected to receive a PFund Foundation Community Grant this year.
This year, a record number of LGBTQ+ nonprofits from across the Upper Midwest applied for funding, and PFund Foundation was proud to deliver the largest grant round in its history.
Each year, PFund awards grants to LGBTQ+ nonprofits in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota. Funding primarily comes from PFund’s Transcend Fund, PRISM Fund, and Bisexual Fund helping ensure that rural communities, BIPOC communities, and trans and gender expansive communities are prioritized and elevated.
Grants range from $2,500 to $50,000 and support organizations advancing work within one or more of PFund’s impact domains:
Holistic Health
Economic Empowerment
Vibrancy and Community
Visibility and Advocacy
Education and Leadership
We invite you to celebrate these organizations, learn more about their work, get involved, and make your own personal impact.
Minnesota: 36 organizations were awarded $453,900.00
Advocates for Reproductive Education
Aliveness ProjectAutism Society of Minnesota
Community Partnership Collaborative 2.0
Hennepin Healthcare Foundation
IAMA- Industrial Arts Mentorship for AllJFCS Minnesota
Kalpulli Tlaloctecuhtli
Mewinzha Ondaadiziike Wiigaming
Planned Parenthood North Central States
Youth Empowerment Support & Safety, YESS
Wisconsin: 13 organizations were awarded $140,000.00
Empowering Community Action Initiative, Inc.
Milwaukee LGBT Community Center
OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center
Rainbow Alliance Advocacy Incorporated
Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project
Iowa: 9 organizations were awarded $106,500.00
Common Love
The Project of the Quad Cities
North Dakota: 7 organizations were awarded $102,800.00
North Dakota Human Rights Coalition
Red River Rainbow Seniors Oral History Project
Sitting Bull College Two Spirit Club
The Pride Collective and Community Center
South Dakota: 5 organizations were awarded $96,800.00
Community-Powered Grantmaking
Award winners are selected through an all-volunteer community review process. Every application is read and ranked by members of our LGBTQ+ community.
If you are interested in helping select future grantees, sign-up here.
Thank You to Our Funding Partners
Thank you to all of our funding partners for making this possible. As a community foundation, PFund collectively pools our community’s resources to maximize our power and impact for our community.
Special appreciation goes to our foundational partners:
The St. Paul and Minnesota Foundation
The Northwest Area Foundation
The McNight Foundation
The Wellspring Foundation
Margaret A Cargill Philanthropies
The F.R. Bigelow Foundation
The Mortenson Foundation
PFund Foundation Endowed Funds:
The Human Rights Fund
The Bisexual Fund
The Steve Endean Fund
The Jeffrey Mayne Memorial Fund for Rural and Small Town Issues
The MacKenzie-Shannon Fund for Authentic Leadership Development
Gregory Wildhaber Fund
Lois Carlson & Jan Kroupa Fund
ROYA LLC Relational Financial Planning Fund
PFund Foundation Board of Directors Fund General Endowment Funds
Special appreciation is also due to Drop Deadlift Gorgeous for a community-led event that raised close to $140,000 for the Transcend Fund. And for all of the PFund community of donors that use the foundation as a vehicle to maximize their philanthropy!
