Which national foundations have publicly disclosed grants to Minnesota fiscal sponsors since 2024?

1. The Bush Foundation via a Minnesota partner — explicit, recent disclosure

The most direct public disclosure identified in the reporting is that the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation is the Minnesota community grant partner of the Bush Foundation and will grant $1.6 million each year from 2025 through 2027 to eligible organizations located in and serving Minnesota, and that the program explicitly accepts applications from organizations or programs that are fiscally sponsored ^[1]. That language constitutes a public disclosure that Bush Foundation funding—at least as channeled through this partner program—accepts and will support fiscally sponsored projects in Minnesota beginning with the 2025 awards cycle ^[1].

2. Named foundation funds on Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation pages — multiple funders, fiscal‑sponsor eligibility

Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation pages and program descriptions list several named foundation funds and partner foundations that participate in pooled or programmatic grantmaking and that accept groups with eligible fiscal sponsors, including the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation Fund and partner funders such as F. R. Bigelow Foundation and Mardag Foundation ^{[2] [3]}. Those pages publicly associate those foundation funds or partners with grant programs that explicitly include fiscal‑sponsor eligibility, which is a public disclosure of willingness to fund through fiscal sponsors in Minnesota ^{[2] [3]}.

3. Regional foundations that publicly support fiscal partners — Southwest Initiative and similar programs

The Minnesota Historical Society’s grants page and related listings note that regional funders such as the Southwest Initiative Foundation support nonprofits, schools, government agencies and fiscal partners in southwest Minnesota, with grant descriptions explicitly referencing fiscal sponsorship as an eligibility or routing mechanism ^[5]. That disclosure demonstrates that at least some regionally based foundations maintain public grant programs that route money to fiscal sponsors serving Minnesota communities ^[5].

4. National and large funders listed as active in Minnesota — public presence but limited fiscal‑sponsor detail

Inside Philanthropy’s roundup and other directories name national or large institutional funders that are “leading funders of Minnesota grants,” including Wells Fargo Foundation, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, McKnight Foundation and others ^[4]. Those listings establish that these national actors fund work in Minnesota, but the provided reporting does not itself include explicit, source‑level disclosures from those organizations showing grants specifically routed to Minnesota fiscal sponsors since 2024; therefore a definitive claim that they have publicly disclosed such fiscal‑sponsor grants since 2024 cannot be made on the basis of these sources alone ^[4].

5. What the record shows — and what remains unverified

In sum, the supplied reporting provides clear, citable evidence that: the Bush Foundation’s Minnesota community program (administered via Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation) will award funds that accept fiscal sponsors ^[1]; the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation’s program pages list named foundation funds and partners that accept fiscally sponsored groups ^{[2] [3]}; and regional funders such as Southwest Initiative Foundation publicly describe funding that includes fiscal partners ^[5]. The record in these sources does not, however, include explicit post‑2024 grant announcements from every large national foundation listed as active in Minnesota that confirm they have publicly disclosed grants specifically to Minnesota fiscal sponsors since 2024, so that gap should caution against broad generalizations beyond what the reporting documents ^[4].

6. Stakes, incentives, and why the distinction matters

The distinction between foundations that publicly state fiscal‑sponsor eligibility on program pages and foundations that have individually disclosed specific grants to named Minnesota fiscal sponsors matters for transparency and accountability: programmatic language signals openness to fiscal‑sponsor applicants ^{[1] [2] [3]}, while specific grant disclosures would permit tracking of grantee impact and intermediated funding flows — disclosures which the provided documents do not uniformly supply for every national funder active in Minnesota ^{[4] [5]}. Funders and intermediaries may have incentives to emphasize partnership and regional reach in promotional materials while not publishing granular, searchable grant-level data about fiscal‑sponsor recipients; the supplied sources reflect that mixed public record ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}.