Which nonprofit grants and IRS filings document transfers to groups involved in Minneapolis anti‑ICE actions?
Executive summary
Reporting identifies several grantmakers and foundation grants that reporters and commentators link to organizations active in Minneapolis anti‑ICE actions, but the provided sources do not include original IRS Form 990s or grant‑by‑grant 990 schedules showing line‑item transfers; instead they cite grant disclosures, tax‑filings summaries and organizational statements that name funders such as Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the Tides Foundation, the Solutions Project, the Ford Foundation, MacArthur and Open Society Foundations [1] [2] [3]. The record in these sources documents that money flowed from national foundations into local nonprofit intermediaries and advocacy networks reportedly involved in anti‑ICE organizing, yet the underlying IRS filings that would show exact dollars and recipient EINs are not reproduced in the material provided here [2] [1].
1. What the reporting specifically documents: named grants and intermediaries
Conservative commentary in RedState reports that Cooperation Cannon River, a Minneapolis “social and environmental justice” nonprofit used as a donations vehicle, has received grants from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the Tides Foundation and the Solutions Project, and that donations are accepted through that local nonprofit [1]. Separately, reporting aggregated by the John Locke Foundation describes large foundation grants — the Ford Foundation ($150,000 in 2024 and $550,000 in 2025), the MacArthur Foundation ($250,000 in 2024) and multi‑million dollar support from Open Society Foundations to groups like Sunrise — citing “tax filings and grant disclosures” as the basis for those figures [2]. The New York Times situates those funding flows in a broader ecosystem, saying established labor and immigrant‑rights groups have provided funding and organized rallies against the federal enforcement surge [3].
2. What is documented about local groups involved in anti‑ICE actions
Local organizations and networks appear in the reporting as both organizers and beneficiaries of philanthropic support: Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) lists community organizing resources and campaign activities, suggesting active local group infrastructure though its site does not list external grants in the excerpts provided [4]. Nonprofit news coverage and guides to “what to do if ICE shows up” list regional legal and advocacy charities — including Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, Volunteer Lawyers Network and Advocates for Human Rights — that are mobilizing legal help and public‑facing resources amid the enforcement surge [5] [6]. These sources establish the presence of an organized local network that receives and channels support, but do not themselves attach scanned IRS forms to every cited grant [4] [5].
3. Where the reporting falls short: absence of primary IRS form evidence in the provided material
The documents supplied to this analysis do not include copies or citations of specific IRS Form 990s, Schedule I grant‑by‑grant lists, or transmitter documents that would definitively show exact dollar transfers from named foundations to named Minneapolis organizations by employer identification number and date; instead, the claims rest on reportage, foundation grant databases and secondary summaries described as “tax filings and grant disclosures” without the underlying 990 images attached in these excerpts [2] [1]. The IRS newsroom link provided is general and does not substitute for beneficiary 990 schedules that would prove discrete transfers [7].
4. Alternative readings and potential agendas in the sources
Conservative outlets (RedState, John Locke summarizing Free Beacon reporting) emphasize “who’s funding” language that frames grants as politically charged and headline‑worthy, while mainstream outlets (New York Times, NPR, Star Tribune) focus on on‑the‑ground organizing, legal responses and municipal impacts without spotlighting the same donor list; both approaches are useful but carry implicit agendas — one to link activism to national “left” funders and the other to contextualize civic resistance and legal aid [1] [2] [3] [8] [9]. Readers should treat foundation grant figures reported in advocacy or partisan outlets as leads that require verification against primary filings (990s and foundation grant databases) to confirm recipient EINs, grant dates and stated purposes [2].
5. Bottom line and recommended next steps for documentary proof
The sources identify named funders — Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Tides Foundation, Solutions Project, Ford, MacArthur and Open Society Foundations — and link them to Minneapolis‑area nonprofits and activist networks involved in anti‑ICE activity but do not, in the materials provided, reproduce the specific IRS Form 990/Schedule I pages that definitively document each transfer; obtaining those primary 990 filings (from ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, IRS EO filings or the foundations’ own grant disclosure databases) is the necessary next step to move from credible reportage to full documentary confirmation [1] [2] [3].