2025 Grant Totals

Dollars Granted

Grants Awarded

2025 Grant Recipients

Arts & Culture
    • Grand Marais Art Colony
      $30,000- Art Colony Operating Support
    • Grand Marais Playhouse
      $25,000-General Operating Support
    • Gunflint Trail Historical Society
      $25,000- Anishinaabe Exhibit
    • North House Folk School
      $25,000-Event Advancement- Strengthening Community Connections and Sustainability
    • Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community
      $25,000-Support for Live Performances and Storytelling Series at Zeitgeist
    • JAM Concert Series Inc
      $3,500- 2025 JAM Concert Series
    • Lake Superior Community Theatre
      $2,500- “Up the Down Staircase” Production Start-Up Fund
    • Matinee Musicale Inc
      $3,500- A Celebration in Poetry and Song
    • Northern Bedrock Historic Preservation
      $3,500-Staff Development and Training
    • Rocky Wall Entertainment
      $3,500- Support for Silver Bay Summer Concert Series
    • Scaredy Cat Studio
      $2,500- Expanding Offerings and Increasing Accessibility within the “Group Music Classes” program
    • Duluth Art Institute
      $20,000- General Operating Support
    • Duluth Playhouse
      $20,000- General Operating Support
    • Old Maple Hill Church
      $35,000- Restoring the Old Maple Hill Church
    • WTIP Cook County Community Radio
      $65,000- General Operating Support
    • National Parks of Lake Superior
      $50,000- Fabricate Exhibit for Grand Portage Ferry Terminal Builidinh

     

      Community & Economic Development
      • YWCA Duluth
        $15,000- Community Assessment
      • Brico Collective
        $15,000-Strengthening Duluth’s Social Impact Ecosystem Through Connection
      • Local Initiative Connection
        $15,000-LISC Duluth’s Income and Wealth Building Programs: Financial Opportunity Center ® and the Duluth Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Network
      Education
      • Cook County Community YMCA$5,000- YMCA Cook to Camp Project
      • Cook County Schools ISD 166
        $100,000- Playground Improvements 
      • Great Expectations School
        $10,000- Specialist Intruction for GES Classrooms
      • Cook County Higher Education
        $70,000- Student Services Specialist Support and Long Distance Scholarships
      • Great Expectations Foundation
        $25,000- Great Expectations School Expansion
      • Life House Futures Education Program
        $20,00
      • Boys and Girls Club of the Northland
        $15,000- Formula for Impact
      • Duluth Community School Collaborative
        $15,000-Building Capacity and Access, Aligning Operations to Support
      • Men as Peacemakers
        $20,000-BEST for Youth Program

       

      Environment
        • MN Land Trust
          $20,000- Headwaters Partnership Community Education Program
        • The Nature Conservancy
          $15,000-Resilient Forests
        • Northwoods Volunteer Connection
          $10,000-Northwoods Volunteer Connection Operations Support
        • Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness
          $10,000-Boundary Waters is Our Backyard – Cook County
        • Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory
          $10,000-Boundary Waters is Our Backyard – Cook County
        • Superior Hiking Trail Association
          $15,000-Sustaining a 40 year legacy of Trail Volunteers
        Social Welfare
        • Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
          $25,000 – AED Onsite Defibrillator Units and Accessories for Grand Portage Common Spaces
        • Maji Ya Chai Land Sanctuary
          $50,000 – Infrastructure for Community Safety and Wellbeing
        • Safe Haven Shelter and Resource Center$25,000-Operating Support
        • Arrowhead Economic Oppportunity Agency, Inc.
          $10,000 – Volunteer Services Outreach
        • Care Partners of Cook County
          $25,000 – Care Partners of Cook County Operational Funding
        • Divine Konnections Inc.
          $50,000-Teen Parent Program and Early Childhood Center
        • PAVSA
          $20,000 -PAVSA Outreach, Education and Support
        • Sawtooth Mountain Clinic
          $100,000- Electronic Health Record Implementation
        • WE Health Clinic
          $20,000- WE Health Clinic General Operating Support
        • The Duluth Salvation Army
          $25,000- Plover Place Programming/Services
        • Sawtooth Mountain Clinic
          $30,000- Oral Health Task Force
        • Second Harvest Northland
          $15,000- Senior Food Program, Backpack Program, and Mobile Pantry Program in Cook and Lake Counties
        • American Indian Community Housing Organization
          $40,000- Dabinoo’igan Shelter General Operations
        • Mentor North
          $40,000- Matching Duluth Youth with Mentors to Support Growth, Opportunity and Well-Being
        • Violence Prevention Center
          $50,000- General Operating Support for the Violence Prevention Center

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