A river running through a deep pine forest valley

Grant recipient EIN 27-5469929Environment

Who funds Lower Phalen Creek Project?

33 private foundations gave Lower Phalen Creek Project in Saint Paul, MN $7.7 million across 87 grants, in tax years 2017 to 2025.

Grants listed on funders’ 990-PF returns for tax years 2017 to 2025, read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

Grants received by year

Grants from private foundations by the funder’s tax year. The latest year is in blue; it is not complete until all its returns reach the IRS.

Every foundation grant, by year

87 grants

Each line as the funder listed it on its return, newest year first, then largest.

  1. Hardenbergh FoundationSt Paul, MN 2025

    Daylighting phalen creek

    $250,000
  2. Charles P & Mary E Belgarde FoundationSt Louis Park, MN 2025

    General fund

    $5,000
  3. The Bush FoundationSt Paul, MN 2024

    To develop and test a new model of indigenous urban land stewardship through nonprofit and municipal government co-management

    $2,482,095
  4. Northwest Area FoundationSt Paul, MN 2024

    General operating support

    $100,000
  5. Manitou FundWhite Bear Lake, MN 2024

    General operating

    $100,000
  6. The McNeely FoundationSt Paul, MN 2024

    Project design and implementation

    $75,000
  7. The McNeely FoundationSt Paul, MN 2024

    Lower phalen creek general operating support

    $55,000
  8. Marbrook FoundationMinneapolis, MN 2024

    General operations of the organization

    $40,000
  9. Dick's Sporting Goods FoundationCoraopolis, PA 2024

    Public lands grant

    $20,000
  10. PatagoniaorgVentura, CA 2024

    To support environmental projects.

    $11,000
  11. Xcel Energy FoundationMinneapolis, MN 2024

    Environmental sustainability

    $10,000
  12. Charles P & Mary E Belgarde FoundationSt Louis Park, MN 2024

    General fund

    $5,000
  13. Earth Rising FoundationWilmington, DE 2024

    General & Unrestricted

    $5,000
  14. The McNeely FoundationSt Paul, MN 2024

    General operating support

    $3,000
  15. Nandale FoundationMarine on St Croix, MN 2024

    Environmental

    $2,000
  16. Margaret A Cargill FoundationEden Prairie, MN 2024

    Employee service award

    $1,500
  17. Rodman FoundationSt Paul, MN 2024

    General operating support

    $1,000
  18. Mardag FoundationSt Paul, MN 2024

    Recognition grant for general operating support

    $750
  19. The Andrew W Mellon FoundationNew York, NY 2023

    To support the construction of wak tipi center, a dakota environmental interpretative and cultural facility, and related staffing and exhibition costs

    $300,000
  20. Northwest Area FoundationSt Paul, MN 2023

    General operating support

    $200,000
  21. Otto Bremer TrustSt Paul, MN 2023

    Wakan tipi center

    $100,000
  22. Manitou FundWhite Bear Lake, MN 2023

    General operating

    $100,000
  23. The McNeely FoundationSt Paul, MN 2023

    Organizational capacity building phalen creek daylighting

    $95,500
  24. FR Bigelow FoundationSt Paul, MN 2023

    Wakan tipi center capital campaign

    $50,000
  25. Rooted PhilanthropicSaint Paul, MN 2023

    General support

    $40,000
  26. Marbrook FoundationMinneapolis, MN 2023

    General operations of the organization

    $40,000
  27. The Musser FundMilwaukee, WI 2023

    General operating

    $35,000
  28. Mardag FoundationSt Paul, MN 2023

    General operating support for wakan tipi awanyankapi

    $25,000
  29. PatagoniaorgVentura, CA 2023

    To support environmental projects.

    $11,500
  30. Charles P & Mary E Belgarde FoundationSt Louis Park, MN 2023

    General fund

    $5,000
  31. BNSF Railway FoundationFort Worth, TX 2023

    Civic

    $5,000
  32. Better Way FoundationMinneapolis, MN 2023

    Wakan Tipi Center

    $5,000
  33. Sundance Family FoundationCircle Pines, MN 2023

    See attachment 1

    $3,000
  34. Laird Norton Family FoundationSeattle, WA 2023

    Land acknowledgment grant

    $2,500
  35. Nandale FoundationMarine on St Croix, MN 2023

    Environmental

    $2,000
  36. Rodman FoundationSt Paul, MN 2023

    General operating

    $1,000
  37. Cottonwood FoundationWhite Bear Lake, MN 2023

    Community engagement

    $500
  38. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2023

    General support

    $54
  39. The Andrew W Mellon FoundationNew York, NY 2022

    To support the construction of wakan tipi center, a dakota environmental interpretative and cultural facility, and related staffing and exhibition costs

    $700,000
  40. Northwest Area FoundationSt Paul, MN 2022

    Wakan tipi center campaign

    $250,000
  41. Otto Bremer TrustSt Paul, MN 2022

    Wakan tipi center

    $150,000
  42. Manitou FundWhite Bear Lake, MN 2022

    General operating

    $90,000
  43. Mardag FoundationSt Paul, MN 2022

    Wakan tipi center capital campaign

    $75,000
  44. FR Bigelow FoundationSt Paul, MN 2022

    Wakan tipi center capital campaign

    $75,000
  45. The McNeely FoundationSt Paul, MN 2022

    General operating support

    $45,000
  46. Marbrook FoundationMinneapolis, MN 2022

    General operations of the organization

    $36,000
  47. Mortenson Family FoundationMinneapolis, MN 2022

    Daylighting of phalen creek

    $25,000
  48. PatagoniaorgVentura, CA 2022

    To support environmental projects.

    $10,000
  49. Xcel Energy FoundationMinneapolis, MN 2022

    Environmental sustainability

    $10,000
  50. Patrick and Aimee Butler FamilySt Paul, MN 2022

    Capacity-building support

    $10,000
  51. Charles P & Mary E Belgarde FoundationSt Louis Park, MN 2022

    General fund

    $8,000
  52. Better Way FoundationMinneapolis, MN 2022

    Wakan Tipi Center

    $5,000
  53. FR Bigelow FoundationSt Paul, MN 2022

    General support

    $5,000
  54. The McNeely FoundationSt Paul, MN 2022

    General operating support

    $2,750
  55. Nandale FoundationMarine on St Croix, MN 2022

    Environmental

    $2,000
  56. Rodman FoundationSt Paul, MN 2022

    General operating support

    $1,000
  57. Cottonwood FoundationWhite Bear Lake, MN 2022

    Program support

    $500
  58. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2022

    Matching grant

    $100
  59. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2022

    General support

    $28
  60. The Bush FoundationSt Paul, MN 2021

    To create a model of public-private partnership with government agencies that will transform the way government respects and honors dakota history and cultural beliefs in managing lands and waters

    $608,500
  61. The McNeely FoundationSt Paul, MN 2021

    General operating support wakan tipi center capital

    $170,000
  62. Hardenbergh FoundationSt Paul, MN 2021

    General operating

    $100,000
  63. Manitou FundWhite Bear Lake, MN 2021

    Wakan tipi center

    $100,000
  64. Northwest Area FoundationSt Paul, MN 2021

    General operating support for capacity building

    $64,000
  65. The Annenberg FoundationConshohocken, PA 2021

    General Operating Support

    $50,000
  66. FR Bigelow FoundationSt Paul, MN 2021

    Wakan tipi center capital campaign

    $25,000
  67. Better Way FoundationMinneapolis, MN 2021

    Wakan Tipi Center

    $10,000
  68. Mortenson Family FoundationMinneapolis, MN 2021

    Engaging people to honor and care for our natural places and the sacred sites and cultural value within them.

    $10,000
  69. Marbrook FoundationMinneapolis, MN 2021

    General operations of the organization

    $3,500
  70. Charles P & Mary E Belgarde FoundationSt Louis Park, MN 2021

    General fund

    $3,000
  71. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2021

    General support

    $48
  72. Manitou FundWhite Bear Lake, MN 2020

    General support

    $50,000
  73. The McNeely FoundationSt Paul, MN 2020

    General operating support & wakan tipi center capital

    $40,000
  74. PatagoniaorgVentura, CA 2020

    To support environmental projects.

    $10,000
  75. James M Cox Foundation of Georgia IncAtlanta, GA 2020

    Unrestricted support; cox conserves award beneficiary

    $7,500
  76. Marbrook FoundationMinneapolis, MN 2020

    General operations of the organization

    $3,500
  77. Charles P & Mary E Belgarde FoundationSt Louis Park, MN 2020

    General fund

    $2,000
  78. Edward S Curtis FoundationMinneapolis, MN 2020

    Capital campaign, design construction wakan trip center

    $2,000
  79. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2020

    General support

    $20
  80. Manitou FundWhite Bear Lake, MN 2019

    Operating support and wakan tipi center design, construction and operating reserve

    $300,000
  81. The McKnight FoundationMinneapolis, MN 2019

    To design and build Wakan Tipi Center at Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary and create a $1 million operating reserve for the Center

    $200,000
  82. The McKnight FoundationMinneapolis, MN 2019

    To design and build Wakan Tipi Center at Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary and create a $1 million operating reserve for the Center

    $150,000
  83. The McNeely FoundationSt Paul, MN 2019

    General operating support - $40,000wakan tipi center capital - $50,000

    $90,000
  84. Northwest Area FoundationSt Paul, MN 2019

    Strategic planning retreat

    $12,000
  85. PatagoniaorgVentura, CA 2019

    To support environmental projects.

    $6,000
  86. Charles P & Mary E Belgarde FoundationSt Louis Park, MN 2019

    General fund

    $2,500
  87. PatagoniaorgVentura, CA 2017

    To support environmental projects.

    $8,000

Funders of similar organizations nearby

Foundations that gave to other environment organizations in Saint Paul, MN and are not among Lower Phalen Creek Project’s funders above.

  1. CH Robinson Worldwide FoundationSioux Falls, SD 11 grants Accepts applications $2,266 to similar organizations
  2. HRK FoundationSt Paul, MN 29 grants Accepts applications $248,345 to similar organizations
  3. Longview FoundationMilwaukee, WI 8 grants Preselected only $166,500 to similar organizations
  4. The Crosswols FoundationStamford, CT 13 grants Preselected only $12,750 to similar organizations
  5. Pohlad Family FoundationMinneapolis, MN 6 grants Accepts applications $2,334 to similar organizations
  6. Driscoll FoundationSt Paul, MN 11 grants Preselected only $420,000 to similar organizations
  7. River Road FoundationEagan, MN 11 grants Accepts applications $130,000 to similar organizations
  8. W Second Growth FoundationSt Paul, MN 9 grants Preselected only $68,500 to similar organizations

About this match

Funders write a recipient’s name and address, not its EIN. We matched these grants to EIN 27-5469929 by name and ZIP code against the IRS list of exempt organizations and our list of filers. Grants we could not tie to one organization are not counted here.