Fourth Quarter Grants 2025
During the fourth quarter of 2025, the Northwest Area Foundation approved 98 grants worth $14,012,466.
Our grantmaking supports organizations building racial, social, and economic justice—helping communities within our region of eight states and 76 Native nations thrive on their own terms. They’re advancing long-overdue change in deep connection with the land they inhabit and communities they serve—Native Americans, communities of color, immigrants, refugees, and people in rural areas.
This year proved to be uniquely challenging for the communities and causes that are central to our mission. We stepped up by doubling our funding for 2025—investing more deeply in our priority communities with funding for dynamic solutions to challenges that arise suddenly. One of the primary ways we did this was by amending many current grants to include more funding. These additional funds are considered new grants, and you’ll find them noted as such in our quarterly grants listing.
We include grants of $10,000 or more in the list below. For information on grants of less than $10,000, please visit our grants database.
African Economic Development Solutions of St. Paul, MN, received $100,000 to support its capacity to strengthen and adapt its culturally rooted business development approach in Oregon, deepen community engagement with African immigrants, build the infrastructure to scale its model, and co-create a sustainable, community-rooted entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2026
Alliance for Metropolitan Stability of Minneapolis will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its efforts to build power across geography, race, culture, and issue areas to dismantle systems of oppression and advance collective liberation, and to support its Stable Ground initiatives.
Grant term: Dec. 1, 2025 – Nov. 30, 2027
American Indian College Fund of Denver will receive $500,000 over two years to support its efforts to stabilize operations of tribal colleges and universities in the Foundation’s region.
Grant term: Sept. 1, 2025 – Aug. 31, 2027
American Indian Community Housing Organization (AICHO) of Duluth, MN, will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its work on housing and shelter services, food sovereignty, traditional healing and wellness, and ongoing economic development and social enterprise work.
Grant term: Sept. 1, 2025 – Aug. 31, 2027
APANO Communities United Fund of Portland, OR, will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its multifaceted approach leading to long-term, systemic solutions grounded in the needs and lived experiences of the communities it serves.
Grant term: Dec. 1, 2025 – Nov. 30, 2027
Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc. of New York received $500,000 to support its work to advance efforts to strengthen philanthropy’s capacity to center racial justice, particularly in the face of growing legal, political, and institutional challenges.
Grant term: Oct. 1, 2025 – Sept. 30, 2026
Awood Center of St. Paul, MN, will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its efforts to protect the rights and welfare of East African immigrants who work primarily in large warehouses operated by companies such as Amazon.
Grant term: Dec. 1, 2025 – Nov. 30, 2027
Awood Center of St. Paul, MN, received $10,000 to support its efforts to respond to emerging community needs and concerns.
Grant term: Dec. 8, 2025 – Dec. 31, 2025
Ayada Leads of Minneapolis received $10,000 to support its efforts to respond to emerging community needs and concerns.
Grant term: Dec. 9, 2025 – Jan. 31, 2026
Bozeman Tenants Education Fund of Bozeman, MT, is a project for the fiscal sponsor Tides Foundation of Los Angeles. Tides Foundation received $136,250 to support the tenant organizing work in Montana of Bozeman Tenants Education Fund: outreach, mobilization, advocacy, and leadership training.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2026
Central Washington Justice for Our Neighbors (CWJFON) of Ellensburg, WA, will receive $360,000 over three years as a general operating grant to support its efforts to advance immigrant justice across rural central and eastern Washington.
Grant term: Oct. 1, 2025 – Sept. 30, 2028
Cheyenne River Youth Project of Eagle Butte, SD, received $250,000 as a general operating grant to support its ongoing work of offering a place for Cheyenne River youth to be safe and grow.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2026
Community to Community is a project for the fiscal sponsor Institute for Washington’s Future, both located in Bellingham, WA. The Institute for Washington’s Future will receive $250,000 over two years to support Community to Community’s work on advocacy and action, bringing together farmworkers, legal services, and place-based organizations to change systems and improve farmworkers’ lives throughout Washington state.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2027
Des Moines Catholic Worker Fund of Ankeny, IA, will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its organizational development work, expansion, and systems-change aspirations.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2027
Ecotrust of Portland, OR, will receive $250,000 over two years to provide support for participant stipends, consultant leadership, and staff capacity as it works with communities to build a network of changemakers to reorganize power to reimagine and restructure systems.
Grant term: Dec. 1, 2025 – Nov. 30, 2027
Firelands Workers Building Community Power / Trabajadores Unidos Construyendo Poder de la Comunidad of Aberdeen, WA, is a project for the fiscal sponsor Latino Community Fund of Washington State (LCF) of Seattle. LCF received $250,000 as a general operating grant to support the core work of Firelands around base building, rural leadership development, issue campaigns, narrative change, and safeguarding communities.
Grant term: Sept. 1, 2025 – Dec. 31, 2026
Flag Special Projects Inc. of St. Paul, MN, will receive $250,000 over two years to support its legal actions aimed at saving family farms and keeping farmers on the land by providing family farmers and allied organizations with the tools they need to litigate against illegal government actions.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2027
Grantee Partner Name Withheld by Request will receive $80,000 over two years as a general operating grant.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2027
Growing Justice Fund is a project for the fiscal sponsor Amalgamated Charitable Foundation, both located in Washington, DC. The Amalgamated Charitable Foundation will receive $1,000,000 over three years to support Growing Justice Fund’s work on transforming tribal and BIPOC-led food systems in Northwest Area Foundation’s region.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2028
Hopa Mountain Inc. of Bozeman, MT, received $100,000 as a cost amendment to the existing $150,000 grant it received to support Strengthening the Circle (STC), its Native nonprofit capacity-building program.
Grant term: Oct. 1, 2023 – Sept. 30, 2026
Idaho Organization of Resource Councils Inc. of Boise, ID, will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its efforts to build a fairer and healthier Idaho for Latino, farmworker, and immigrant communities, advocating for safe working conditions and addressing the harmful impact of anti-immigrant policies.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2027
The Indigenous Association of Fargo, ND, received $50,000 as a cost amendment to the existing $50,000 general operating grant it received to support its efforts to enhance its ability to operate sustainably and deliver impactful programming.
Grant term: Dec. 1, 2024 – Nov. 30, 2026
Latino Economic Development Center of St. Paul, MN, will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its efforts to help Minnesota’s Latino- and immigrant-owned businesses launch, grow, and build community wealth.
Grant term: Dec. 1, 2025 – Nov. 30, 2027
Lavender Rights Project of Seattle will receive $250,000 over three years as a general operating grant to support its efforts to support community organizing, client-informed policy advocacy, base building, and strategizing with Black communities.
Grant term: Dec. 1, 2025 – Nov. 30, 2027
Mahchiwminahnahtik Chippewa and Cree Language Revitalization of Box Elder, MT, will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its efforts to create language curricula to integrate language lessons into local classrooms, and to train local language learners for teaching certifications so they can support immersion curriculum.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2027
Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO) of Portland, OR, will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its programs and services for BIPOC-owned businesses in Oregon and Southwest Washington by reimagining the local financial system.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2027
Minnesota Museum of American Art of St. Paul, MN, will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its efforts to transform how communities engage with and see themselves within museum spaces. Funding will support the research, staff time, and partner collaboration required to develop and disseminate a partnership toolkit.
Grant term: Dec. 1, 2025 – Nov. 30, 2027
Mission Driven Finance of San Diego is a project for the fiscal sponsor Impact Charitable of Denver. Impact Charitable will receive $750,000 over three years to support Mission Driven Finance’s Indigenous Futures Fund (IFF), accelerating the flow of capital to Native entrepreneurs, tribal enterprises, and projects across Indian Country.
Grant term: Sept. 1, 2025 – Aug. 31, 2028
MN Workers Confluence Fund is a project for the fiscal sponsor Working Partnerships Inc., both located in Minneapolis. Working Partnerships will receive $500,000 over two years to support MN Workers Confluence Fund’s efforts to continue building the worker power network in Minnesota, supporting funding and direct assistance to several worker centers and worker justice nonprofits.
Grant term: Sept. 1, 2025 – Aug. 31, 2027
Montana Two Spirit Society of Missoula, MT, will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its efforts to advocate for and educate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) community about two-spirit (2S) histories, traditions, and issues.
Grant term: Oct. 1, 2025 – Sept. 30, 2027
Native American Community Development Institute of Minneapolis will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its asset-based, systems-change approach to community development.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2027
Native American Rights Fund of Boulder, CO, received $500,000 to support its efforts to ensure that the federal government honors treaty obligations, federal laws, and inherent tribal sovereignty by responding to federal actions threatening tribes and tribal citizens.
Grant term: Oct. 1, 2025 – Sept. 30, 2026
Native Organizers Alliance is a project for the fiscal sponsor Alliance for a Just Society, both located in Seattle. Alliance for a Just Society will receive $250,000 over two years to support Native Organizers Alliance’s efforts build Native power through grassroots organizing and advocacy, leadership trainings, and campaigns that protect Indigenous sovereignty, rights, culture, natural resources, and sacred sites.
Grant term: Dec. 1, 2025 – Nov. 30, 2027
Neighborhood Development Center Inc. of St. Paul, MN, will receive $600,000 over three years as a general operating grant to support its efforts to invest in the future of over 2,000 Twin Cities entrepreneurs.
Grant term: Sept. 1, 2025 – Aug. 31, 2028
North Dakota Native Vote Education Project of Bismarck, ND, will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its efforts to strengthen its community organizing, leadership development, and democracy protection work across North Dakota’s tribal nations.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2027
North Idaho Pride Alliance of Coeur d’Alene, ID, will receive $225,000 over three years as a general operating grant to support its efforts to expand its staff capacity, open the region’s first lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and two-spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) center, and strengthen regional partnerships.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2028
Philanthrofund (PFund) Foundation of Minneapolis received $600,000 as a cost amendment to the existing $400,000 grant it received to support regranting to LGTBQ+-serving organizations in rural areas of Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota.
Grant term: Oct. 1, 2023 – Sept. 30, 2027
Pride Foundation of Seattle received $350,000 as a cost amendment to the existing $400,000 grant it received to support regranting to Black, Indigenous, or people of color (BIPOC) LGBTQ+ and rural LGBTQ+ organizations in the Northwest—providing multiyear general operating support to increase organizational capacity, and rapid response support for immediate and unexpected needs.
Grant term: Oct. 1, 2023 – Sept. 30, 2026
Re:power Fund of St. Paul, MN, will receive $250,000 over two years to support its work in training organizers, organizations, volunteers, and elected leaders throughout the Pacific Northwest to block authoritarianism, defend democracy, and achieve meaningful change.
Grant term: Dec. 1, 2025 – Nov. 30, 2027
Rooted to Last is a project for the fiscal sponsor Propel Nonprofits, both located in Minneapolis. Propel Nonprofits will receive $250,000 over two years to support Rooted to Last’s efforts to build an enduring social justice infrastructure in communities of color throughout Minnesota, strengthening networks, building knowledge and resources, and championing collective action.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2027
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation of St. Paul, MN, received $150,000 to support its collaboration with the City of St. Paul’s Office of Financial Empowerment (OFE), and will support OFE staff capacity and incentive deposits for CollegeBound Saint Paul 2025-2026 participants.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2026
Sharing Our Roots of Northfield, MN, received $100,000 as a general operating grant to support its efforts to fund staffing, protect farmer well-being, and invest in strategies to replace lost institutional markets resulting from recent shifts in federal priorities.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2026
Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation of Porcupine, SD, received $250,000 as a general operating grant to support its efforts to support its staff as the organization goes through internal refinement and shifts priorities.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2026
Tiwahe Foundation of Minneapolis will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its efforts to work on Indigenous knowledge, methodologies, and life goals within Minnesota’s native community.
Grant term: Oct. 1, 2025 – Sept. 30, 2027
Tubman Center for Health & Freedom of Seattle will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its reparative and transformative approach to community well-being through integrative care and community power building.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2027
Ventures of Seattle received $250,000 as a general operating grant to support its efforts to build an equitable economy in Seattle, including implementation of its refreshed strategic plan and deepening of its economic justice approach.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2026
Voices for Racial Justice of Minneapolis will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its efforts to strengthen the racial justice organizing ecosystem in Minnesota by building power and transforming public systems, policy, and culture.
Grant term: Dec. 1, 2025 – Nov.30, 2027
West Side Citizens Organization (also known as West Side Community Organization) of St. Paul, MN, received $25,000 to support its efforts to build out its infrastructure, allowing it to increase communications capacity, staff capacity, and offer stipends for community representatives.
Grant term: Oct. 1, 2025 – Sept.30, 2026
Western Native Voice of Billings, MT, will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its efforts to maintain a strong presence in rural and reservation areas, further investing in and cultivating leadership pipelines for the next generation of Native changemakers.
Grant term: Nov. 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2027
Yellow Bird Life Ways Center of Colstrip, MT, will receive $250,000 over two years as a general operating grant to support its services to the community grounded in Cheyenne lifeways, youth empowerment, foodways, and healing through cultural connection, reconnection, and decolonization.
Grant term: Oct. 1, 2025 – Sept. 30, 2027
YWCA USA of Washington, DC, received $10,000 as a vice president discretionary grant.
Grant term: Sept. 9, 2025 – Sept. 9, 2025
