Opportunities

Funding Opportunities

Funding opportunities include but are not limited to:

• General Operations
• School and Public Programs
• Collections
• Digitization of Resources
• Exhibitions
• Historic Sites
• In-kind Gifts
• Matching Gifts

For more information call 651-259-3117.

Corporate Sponsorship

Interested in learning about our Corporate Sponsorship program? Contact Angela Casselton, Sponsorship & Partnership Marketing Manager at 651-259-3143 or angela.casselton@mnhs.org.

Donor Recognition

Gifts of $250 and above are acknowledged in the Society’s annual report, in our History Matters newsletter mailed to over 19,000 households, and on the Society’s corporate/foundation web page.

Gifts of $1,000 or more are recognized on our donor panels at the entrances of the Minnesota History Museum, St. Paul, and Mill City Museum, Minneapolis.

Funding support for programs and exhibitions are also recognized in a variety of ways including mailings, hand-outs and project specific donor panels.

FY10 Donors

The Minnesota Historical Society gratefully acknowledges the following corporations, foundations, organizations and government grant programs that have generously supported our programs and special projects during the past year.

Guarantor: $25,000+
Cargill
Cargill Foundation
General Mills Foundation
George A. MacPherson Fund
Target Foundation
Frank W. Veden Charitable Fund

Benefactor: $15,000-24,999
Emerald Foundation
David M. and Janis Larson Foundation
MAHADH Fund of the HRK Foundation
RAFT Charitable Foundation

Founder:  $10,000-14,999
3M Foundation
AgStar Fund for Rural America
The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation
General Mills Communities of Color Grants Program
Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation
Art and Martha Kaemmer Fund of HRK Foundation
Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota
Piper Jaffray Companies, Inc.

Partner:  $5,000-9,999
Andersen Corporate Foundation
Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation
Archer Daniels Midland Company
Athwin Foundation
Best Buy Children's Foundation
Federated Insurance Company
Friends of Forestville
Hardenbergh Foundation
Marbrook Foundation
Margaret Rivers Fund

Leader:  $2,500-4,999
Steven C. Leuthold Family Foundation
The Minneapolis Foundation
The National Grange
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Phyllis S. Poehler and Walter E. Stremel Charitable Trust
Qwest Foundation
Securian Foundation

Patron:  $1,000-2,499
Cliffs Natural Resources
Faegre & Benson Foundation
HGA Architects and Engineers, LLC
Leonard, Street and Deinard Foundation
Mayo Clinic
Medtronic Foundation
National Society of Colonial Dames of America
Elizabeth C. Quinlan Foundation, Inc.
RBC Foundation - USARBC Foundation - USA
Southern Minnesota Construction Co., Inc.
The Saint Paul Foundation
Tealwood Asset Management
Touchstone Energy Cooperatives
UBS
Union Pacific Foundation
H.E. and Helen R. Warren Foundation
Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation, Inc.
Lillian Wright and C. Emil Berglund Foundation, Inc.

Sustaining: $500-999
AmericInn Lodge and Suites of Silver Bay
Hands on Twin Cities
Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Pearson Foundation
New Jersey State Grange
Rhode Island State Grange Foundation, Inc.
University of Minnesota

Contributing: $250-499
Ceridian Retiree's Club
Delta Kappa Gamma Soc Intl
Friends of the Edina Library
Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers
Irish Fair of Minnesota
Irish on Grand
North Shore Federal Credit Union
Padilla Speer Beardsley Inc.

Additional Special Projects
Katherine B. Andersen Fund of The Saint Paul Foundation
Betty Jane and Kenneth H. Dahlberg
Federal Highway Administration/Minnesota Department of Transportation
Friends of the Minnesota State Capitol
Friends of the Sibley Historic Site
Grotto Foundation
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Jerome Foundation
Ward B. Lewis
The Laura Jane Musser Fund
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Historical Publications and Records Commission
National History Day
Nicholson Family Foundation
Northwest Area Foundation
Kathleen C. Ridder
Public Art St. Paul
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, L.L.P. Foundation
Saint John's University
The Scrooby Foundation
Tawani Foundation
Helmuth and Charlene von Bluecher
WEM Foundation

Corporate Matching Gifts
Aetna Foundation, Inc.
Assurant, Inc.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation
Deluxe Corporation Foundation
The Dorsey and Whitney Foundation
Ford Foundation
H.B. Fuller Company Foundation
General Mills Foundation
Piper Jaffray Companies, Inc.
Securian Foundation
TCF Foundation
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation
United Health Group
Xcel Energy

Sponsorship
American Express
Best Buy Company, Inc.
Comcast
Medtronic Foundation
Touchstone Energy Cooperatives
UPM Blandin
Xcel Energy

In-Kind
3M Foundation
Medtronic, Inc.
Nortrax Inc.
Piper Jaffray Companies, Inc.
The Salon 4 You!
Tapestry Folkdance Center
A Time for Expression, LLC
Valspar

Media Partners
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City Pages
Explore Minnesota Tourism
KARE 11
Minnesota Public Radio
myTalk 107.1
Star Tribune
Vita.mn
WCCO Radio