Grants made by Minnesota Historical Society
Minnesota Historical Society (EIN 41-0713907) reported 153 grants totaling $6.6M in FY2023 on Schedule I of its IRS Form 990 — the 100 largest are listed below. See the full financial profile for revenue, ratings and leadership.
Grant recipients (FY2023) · $6.6M total
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota | Legacy grant for various projects focused on historical research, cultural preservation, community collaboration, and ecological studies in minnesota, such as oral histories, historical databases, preservation efforts, and conservation initiatives. | $386,316 |
| Todd County | Legacy grant for construction of courthouse rock wall phase 1 | $276,500 |
| City of Sandstone | Legacy grant for sandstone public school roof stabilization project | $238,813 |
| Tower-soudan Historical Society | Legacy grant for tower fire hall exterior, electrical, and interior masonry and finishes rehabilitation | $216,423 |
| Roseau County Historical Society | Legacy grant for roseau museum shelving and collection management system upgrade for long term preservation plan | $200,283 |
| City of Madison | Legacy grant for the city of madison city hall window and historic tower rehabilitation | $200,200 |
| Minnesota Masonic Historic Buildings | Legacy grant for preservation and rehabilitation of duluth masonic center | $190,729 |
| St Clements Episcopal Church | Legacy grant for st clements church restoration | $175,000 |
| City of Delano | Legacy grant for delano village hall (heritage center) elevator installation | $169,680 |
| Hubbard County | Legacy grant for historic courthouse roof replacement | $166,130 |
| Le Sueur County Historical Society | Legacy grant for elysian school bell tower and roof rehabilitation | $148,540 |
| Rushford Area Historical Society | Legacy grant for rushford area business support and south mn construction stabilization | $131,227 |
| Scott County Historical Society Inc | Legacy grant for shakopee cultural trail development and museum lighting redesign | $127,070 |
| Lyon County Historical Society | Legacy grant for collections storage rehousing project | $126,900 |
| Lake of the Woods County Historical Society County Courthouse | Legacy grant for implementation of low county historical society exhibits | $119,640 |
| Winona County Historical Society Inc | Legacy grant for hvac design, microfilm digitization, and lighting installation | $119,460 |
| Cathedral of Our Merciful Savior | Legacy grant for stone replacement at chapel and roof rehabilitation project | $115,768 |
| Anderson Center For Interdisciplinary Studies Inc | Legacy grant for tower view masonry restoration | $115,500 |
| Danebod Lutheran Church | Legacy grant for architectural plans and structural analysis for danebod folk school | $106,140 |
| Christ Lutheran Church On Capitol Hill | Legacy grant for repairing and restoration on restroom | $105,759 |
| City of Mahnomen | Capitol grant for mahnomen city hall ada/rehab project | $102,500 |
| Pipestone County Historical Society | Legacy grant for ferris grand north facade repointing | $99,704 |
| Dakota County Historical Society Inc Dakota County Museum | Legacy grant for trail and exhibits concept design and upgrading lawshe memorial museum with phase 3 george daniels project | $99,420 |
| White Bear Lake Area Historical Society | Legacy grant for historic structures report for the noyes cottage, researching street cars in wbl, and 3d object collection inventory | $95,771 |
| St Olaf College | Legacy grant for cataloging textiles and 3d objects in the st. olaf college archives & special collections | $92,175 |
| City of Maynard | Legacy grant for maynard state bank roof replacement | $83,503 |
| Hmong Museum of Minnesota | Legacy grant for changing times traveling exhibit | $80,000 |
| Islamic Center of Winona | Legacy grant for roof replacement | $75,578 |
| Goodhue County Historical Society | Legacy grant for photograph collection cataloging, digitizing, and rehousing | $75,329 |
| Waterford Township | Legacy grant for waterford bridge rehabilitation | $68,563 |
| Afton Historical Society | Legacy grant for creating an interpretive plan and fire suppression installation | $68,021 |
| Lake Minnetonka Historical Society | Legacy grant for hull rehabilitation of streetcar boat "minnehaha" | $62,801 |
| Bill & Bonnie Daniels Firefighters Hall & Museum | Legacy grant for researching the history and symbolism of fire department commemorative accessories and inventory collection | $59,920 |
| Augsburg University | Legacy grant for augsburg university archives hvac project | $55,058 |
| Washington County | Capitol grant for washington county historic courthouse storm windows | $54,500 |
| Science Museum of Minnesota | Legacy grant for examining climate history and sediment mapping of archaeologically significant lakes in sw minnesota. | $52,271 |
| City of Duluth | Legacy grant for lakewalk interpretive markers implementation | $49,718 |
| Sacred Heart John Chebul Memorial Center Association Incorporated | Legacy grant for shmc roofing & gutter repair | $48,561 |
| Springfield Area Historical Society | Legacy grant for hvac & lighting system renovation | $47,577 |
| Mixtape Dance Mn | Legacy grant for twin cities breaking archive | $45,000 |
| The Basilica Landmark | Legacy grant for structural assessment of masonry | $44,994 |
| Carver County | Legacy grant for coney island of the west interpretive plan | $43,650 |
| Ramsey County Historical Society Inc | Legacy grant for projects focuses on preserving and digitizing culture, historical, and archival materials including hmong heritage, st. paul arts, architectural records, and engineering oral histories | $41,600 |
| St Louis County Historical Society | Legacy grant for collections accessibility initiative: catalog inventory continued | $40,442 |
| Nobles County Historical Society | Legacy grant for digital conversion, rehousing, and preservation of photographic negatives and artworks to meet professional archival standards | $39,971 |
| Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation | Legacy grant for web-based historical exhibit planning and design project | $39,575 |
| Dakota County | Legacy grant for spring lake park reserve interpretive design and messaging plan | $36,000 |
| City of Cokato | Legacy grant for gust akerlund photography studio construction work | $35,100 |
| San Francisco Township | Legacy grant for san francisco township district no. 22 school/town hall stabilization and repair | $35,026 |
| Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans In Minnesota | Legacy grant for documentary: romanian immigration to the twin cities after 1989 | $34,391 |
| City of St Paul-parks & Rec | Legacy grant for cochran park pool & sculpture restoration | $34,041 |
| Ernest C Oberholtzer Foundation | Legacy grant for mallard island annex library | $34,018 |
| City of Henning | Legacy grant for trinity church bell tower repair and lewis house medical clinic conditions assessment | $33,753 |
| Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County | Legacy grant for projects for documenting, interpreting, and preserving historical collections | $33,312 |
| Giants of the Earth Heritage Center | Legacy grant for norwegian ridge farmers documentary: production and distribution | $33,304 |
| City of Brainerd | Legacy grant for preservation of the brainerd historic concrete water tower | $32,408 |
| Central Presbyterian Church | Legacy grant for rehabilitation of east elevation masonry | $32,000 |
| City of Walters | Legacy grant for construction work/preservation of the walters jail | $31,869 |
| Sacred Heart Area Historical Society | Legacy grant for projects focused on improving museum collections, storage conditions, and accessibility through better lighting, storage planning, and acquisition of archival equipment. | $30,119 |
| City of Mendota Heights | Partnership grant for oheyawahe/pilot knob interpretive program partnership | $29,550 |
| Scandia Elim Church | Legacy grant for projects focused on inventorying collections, evaluating hvac systems, developing a long-term preservation plan, and assessing site accessibility for ada compliance. | $29,204 |
| Twin City Model Railroad Club Inc | Legacy grant for projects focused on evaluating hvac systems, designing a lighting plan for the mini-sota gallery, and developing an exhibition plan | $26,900 |
| Kasson Alliance For Restoration Inc | Legacy grant for 1918 kasson public school masonry terra cotta repair | $26,276 |
| Washington County Historical Society | Legacy grant for research project for wedding traditions in washington county and exhibit planning and design for washing co brewing. | $26,200 |
| Charles Thompson Memorial Hall | Legacy grant for restoration and repair of front exterior porch for thompson hall | $21,517 |
| City of Mpls-cped | Legacy grant for minneapolis african american historic and cultural context study | $20,250 |
| City of Winona | Legacy grant for winona historic contexts updating and windom park design guidelines | $20,000 |
| Clearwater County Historical Society | Legacy grant for collections inventory and gran church conditions assessment | $19,497 |
| Cultural Archive of Modern Paganism Inc | Legacy grant for collections for oral histories and creation of collections | $19,430 |
| City of Belle Plaine | Legacy grant for episcopal church of the transfiguration preservation project ii | $18,586 |
| Minnesota Masonic Historical Society and Museum | Legacy grant for collections storage/rehousing | $17,069 |
| City of Tracy | Legacy grant for tracy municipal building and armory conditions assessment | $16,600 |
| Caponi Art Park | Legacy grant for caponi art park nomination and caponi home conditions assessment | $16,394 |
| Preserve Historic Dinkytown | Legacy grant for dinkytown odyssey documentary research & development | $16,380 |
| Northfield Historical Society Inc | Legacy grant for scriver block - east and north elevation restoration construction drawings | $15,600 |
| Maplewood Area Historical Society Inc | Legacy grant for images collection digitization and farm security survey | $15,500 |
| Minnesota Discovery Center | Legacy grant for oral history and state politics research projects | $13,996 |
| Red Lake Nation College | Legacy grant for red lake tribal archives digitization and disaster planning | $13,987 |
| Otter Tail County | Legacy grant for phelps mill preservation | $13,986 |
| Norwegian-american Historical Association | Legacy grant for projects focused on rehousing records for norwegian-american and norse-american centennial papers | $13,236 |
| Minnesota Orchestral Association | Legacy grant for the minnesota orchestra's concert broadcast history, phase ii | $13,025 |
| Morrison County Historical Society | Legacy grant for property improvements and survey for archaeology and museum national register evaluation | $12,300 |
| The Bakken | Legacy grant for projects for audio tour production and exhibition renewal and translation | $11,180 |
| Carver County Historical Society Inc | Legacy grant for projects involving interpretive research for tombstone marker, touchscreen veteran database, and hvac systems. | $10,000 |
| Centro Tyrone Guzman | Legacy grant for documentation of latine elder reflections on gender, sexuality and aging | $10,000 |
| City of Afton | Legacy grant for museum building ada assessment and valley creek women's club research | $10,000 |
| City of Bagley | Legacy grant for wpa rock structures national register evaluation | $10,000 |
| City of Browns Valley | Legacy grant for sam brown/fort wadsworth cabin condition assessment with focus on the structural system | $10,000 |
| City of Ely | Legacy grant for ely memorial high school centennial anniversary 1924-2024: oral history | $10,000 |
| City of Excelsior | Legacy grant for first church of christ, scientist national register evaluation | $10,000 |
| City of Hackensack | Legacy grant for hackensack conservation building conditions assessment | $10,000 |
| Cottonwood County | Legacy grant for cottonwood county courthouse working drawings/architectural plans and specifications | $10,000 |
| Dodge County Historical Society | Legacy grant for wasioja baptist church condition assessment & treatment plan | $10,000 |
| East Side Freedom Library | Legacy grant for housing justice archival exhibit research | $10,000 |
| Eden Prairie Isd #272 | Legacy grant for eden prairie schools 100 year anniversary oral history project | $10,000 |
| Faribault County Historical Society | Legacy grant for walter mondale boyhood home national register evaluation | $10,000 |
| Fridley Historical Society | Legacy grant for an exhibit concept of the post-world war ii suburban development of fridley, minnesota | $10,000 |
| Friends of Maplewood Cemetery | Legacy grant for maplewood cemetery chapel conditions assessment | $10,000 |
| Lake Superior Railroad Museum | Legacy grant for st. louis county depot canopy conditions assessment | $10,000 |
| Luther Memorial Church | Legacy grant for luther memorial church national register nomination | $10,000 |
Grant data comes from Schedule I of Minnesota Historical Society's e-filed Form 990, via CharityIndex. Recipients link to their own profiles where the EIN matches our directory.