How Charity's are ranked

Minnesota Adult & Teen Challenge
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For over 30 years, Minnesota Adult & Teen Challenge has been restoring hope to teens and adults struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. Our mission is to assist teens and adults in gaining freedom from addictions and other life-controlling problems by addressing their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Our goal is to evaluate the core issues of mind, body, and spirit, find solutions, and teach transitional life skills that enable both teens and adults to re-join their families and become contributing members of society.

Educational Frontiers Inc.
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Provide education to children.

Wallin Education Partners
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To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. We do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and holistic support.

Page Education Foundation
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The Page Education Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1988 by NFL Hall of Fame Inductee, Retired Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, and Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient, Alan Page, and his wife Diane Sims Page.
For over 30 years, our mission has been to create heroes through education and service by encouraging Minnesota students of color to pursue post-secondary education. In exchange for financial support, recipients, known as Page Scholars, contribute to our community by mentoring younger children in kindergarten through eighth grade.
The Page Education Foundation gave 10 Page grants in their first year, growing to more than 500 annually. To date, $15 million in Page Grants have been awarded to 7,500 students who have studied at over 100 post-secondary schools across the state. Page Scholars have also given nearly 500,000 service hours to positively influence 50,000 younger students' futures in 325 community organizations and schools across the state.

Cloquet Educational Foundation Inc.
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Educational support.

Anoka Hennepin Educational Foundation Incorporated
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AHEF cultivates equitable and innovative experiences for students through partnerships with compassionate people who have generous hearts.

Hopkins Education Foundation
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To provide resources to enrich educational experiences within the Hopkins School District.

Edina Education Fund
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To support educational needs and opportunities for all Edina Public School students.

Minnesota Education Equity Partnership
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Minnesota Education Equity Partnership uses a race equity lens to transform educational institutions, organizations, and leaders to ensure that students of color and American Indian students achieve full academic and leadership success.

Friends of Africa Education
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Friends of Africa Education is a non-profit organization providing AIDS orphans, other at-risk children, and adults access to education in sub-Saharan Africa.

Moorhead Area Education Foundation
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To support and promote educational programs in Independent School District 152.

Policy Innovators in Education Network Inc.
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To build, support, and promote a network of education advocacy organizations.

Construction Education Foundation of Minnesota
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To provide educational programs designed to expand knowledge in construction and construction safety areas.

Way to Grow
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Working closely with parents and communities, we ensure that children within the most isolated families are born healthy, stay healthy, and are prepared for school.

National Youth Leadership Council
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For 30 years, the National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) has transformed classrooms, empowered teachers, and captivated students by leading the way in providing high-quality, dynamic, service-learning content to school districts, classrooms, out-of-school youth programs, and everything in between. By partnering with NYLC, we can accelerate student achievement in your district by strengthening academic, civic, and character outcomes through service-learning. We help you tap into the passion, creativity, and ingenuity of all young people to make real change happen. NYLC offers a variety of opportunities for you to engage students. With online content, customized professional development, tools, resources, and more, NYLC is leading the way to transform community into the classroom and inspire all young people to serve, learn, and change the world.

Big Brothers Big Sisters Twin Cities
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Since 1904, Big Brothers Big Sisters has been matching youth in meaningful, enduring, professionally supported mentoring relationships with adult volunteers who defend their potential and help them achieve their biggest possible futures. Big Brothers Big Sisters' evidence-based approach is designed to create positive youth outcomes, including educational success, avoidance of risky behaviors, higher aspirations, greater confidence, and improved relationships. In the past 10 years, with 270 affiliates in all 50 states, Big Brothers Big Sisters has served nearly 2 million children.

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) enriches the community by collecting, preserving, and making accessible outstanding works of art from the world's diverse cultures. The MIA is one of the leading comprehensive fine art museums in the country. In a beautiful landmark building near downtown Minneapolis, the museum houses more than 80,000 works of art, representing more than 5,000 years of world art and culture. The MIA offers visitors a broad range of artistic experiences from special exhibitions, classes, and workshops to the historic Purcell-Cutts House—a masterpiece of Prairie School design. Central to the museum's values is a fundamental belief in accessibility, maintaining a free general admission policy, annually welcoming approximately 500,000 visitors and serving more than 200,000 K-12 students.

Feed My Starving Children
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Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) believes hope starts with food. As a Christian nonprofit, we are dedicated to seeing every child whole in body and spirit. We work with food distribution partners that stay with communities for the long haul, empowering them to move from relief to development. Meals are primarily hand-packed by volunteers, and donations fund everything we do. More than 900,000 volunteers packed over 400 million FMSC meals in 2022. More than 99 percent of total donations go directly to feed kids.

Community Reinvestment Fund Inc.
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Empower people to improve their lives and strengthen their communities through financial solutions.

The Saint Paul Foundation
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The Saint Paul Foundation is the state's largest community foundation, serving Saint Paul and surrounding areas since 1940. The Saint Paul Foundation actively serves the people of the greater Saint Paul area by building permanent charitable capital, making philanthropic grants, and providing services that contribute to the health and vitality of the community. Together, The Saint Paul Foundation and its affiliate, Minnesota Community Foundation, manage assets of nearly one billion dollars. The Foundations work together to create a new era of impact through charitable giving by mobilizing resources to build strong communities where all people can find hope and opportunities to enrich their lives.

Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis
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Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis serves those most in need. We are a leader at solving poverty, creating opportunity, and advocating for justice in the community. Our programs for children, families, and adults annually help nearly 20,000 people, regardless of faith, background, or circumstance. Through our advocacy efforts, Catholic Charities serves as a tireless voice for those who often go unheard. Our work would not be possible without our dedicated volunteers and donors. As the need for services continues to increase and become more complex, Catholic Charities adapts and responds to help those who are suffering in our community. With your support, we prevent poverty, meet basic needs in times of crisis, and create pathways out of poverty. Catholic Charities serves all people, regardless of faith. Our mission is rooted in Christian faith and the principles of Catholic Social Teaching, inspiring our work for and with those most in need.

Lifeworks Services Inc.
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Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

The Minneapolis Foundation
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Established in 1915, The Minneapolis Foundation is one of the nation's oldest and largest community foundations. We manage nearly $700 million in assets and administer more than 1,000 charitable funds created by individuals, families, businesses, and nonprofits. More than $30 million in grants are distributed from these funds each year, either personally recommended by or in accordance with the legacy wishes of our donors. Our purpose is to join with others to strengthen our community in measurable and sustainable ways, for the benefit of all citizens, especially those who are disadvantaged.

Minnesota Public Radio
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Founded in 1967, Minnesota Public Radio | American Public Media (MPR | APM) works to enrich the mind and nourish the spirit, thereby assisting our audiences to enhance their lives, expand perspectives, and strengthen their communities. MPR is one of the nation's premier public radio stations, producing programming for radio, Internet, and live audiences. MPR provides three services—News and Information Service, Classical Music Service, and The Current—operating a 45-station regional radio network and serving a regional population of 5 million people. APM is the nation's second-largest producer of public radio programs, reaching 18 million listeners each week through more than 900 radio stations nationwide. National programs include A Prairie Home Companion®, Marketplace®, The Splendid Table®, Performance Today®, and more.

Suicide Awareness-Voices of Education
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To prevent suicide through public awareness and education, reduce stigma, and serve as a resource to those touched by suicide.

Minnesota Orchestra
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The Minnesota Orchestra's mission is to enrich, inspire, and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence. Now in its second century and led by Music Director Osmo Vänskä, the Minnesota Orchestra ranks among America's top symphonic ensembles. The ensemble has a distinguished history of acclaimed performances in its home state and around the world, numerous award-winning recordings, and a suite of innovative education and community engagement programs. The orchestra presents nearly 175 programs each year, attended by live audiences totaling 300,000. More than 1 million others tune in to hear live and recorded concert broadcasts, including weekly Friday night broadcasts on Minnesota Public Radio.

Minnesota Historical Society
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The Minnesota Historical Society's mission is to serve all the people of Minnesota by creating powerful engagement with history to cultivate curiosity and foster a more inclusive, empathetic, and informed society. The vision is that the people of Minnesota will be grounded in their personal, community, and state history, understanding how history shapes, inspires, and informs the present, making them better citizens of their communities, state, country, and the world.

Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness
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Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness (NMW) is a locally-based national organization with strong ties to the wild public lands of northern Minnesota and Canada. We advocate for the life-sustaining values of wilderness, inspired by the beauty, resilience, and priceless ecological and social values wilderness provides. We take action to defend our most exceptional wild places, especially the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) of Northeastern Minnesota.

Minnesota Zoo Foundation
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The Minnesota Zoo Foundation's primary purpose is to raise funds for the Minnesota Zoo. Founded in 1978, the Minnesota Zoo exists to connect people, animals, and the natural world.

Minnesota Humanities Center
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The Minnesota Humanities Center conducts and supports cultural and educational programs throughout Minnesota.

Minnesota Children's Museum

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Our mission is to spark children's learning through play. Founded in 1981 by three educators dedicated to expanding informal education opportunities for Minnesota’s youngest learners, the museum has evolved into a local leader in playful learning experiences that support early childhood development. Located in downtown Saint Paul, the museum features 11 galleries where families can have fun together, with children taking the lead in their hands-on exploration. Through interactive exhibits and programs, the museum provides open-ended, self-directed experiences that give kids (and adults) the freedom to explore their interests, solve problems, and build life skills.

Minnesota Forestry Association
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The Minnesota Forestry Association is dedicated to promoting forestry education and sustainable practices throughout Minnesota.