Opportunities to Support MHS

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 20,000 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 Center, 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+
 

Patrick and Aimee Butler Family Foundation

General Mills Foundation

MAHADH Fund of the HRK Foundation

George A. MacPherson Fund

State of Minnesota

Target Foundation

Benefactor: $15,000-24,999
RAFT Charitable Foundation
Frank W. Veden Charitable Trust

Founder: $10,000-14,999

Emerald Foundation

Art and Martha Kaemmer Fund of the HRK Foundation

Partner: $5,000-9,999
 

3M Foundation

Andersen Corporate Foundation

Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation

Anonymous

The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation

Federated Insurance Company

Hardenbergh Foundation

Marbrook Foundation

National History Day

Piper Jaffray Companies, Inc.

Margaret Rivers Fund

Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota

Leader: $2,500-4,999
 

Friends of the Oliver H. Kelley Farm

Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation

The National Grange

Phyllis S. Poehler and Walter E. Stremel Charitable Trust

RBC Foundation - USA

Securian Foundation

Patron: $1,000-2,499
 

Elmer L. and Eleanor J. Andersen Foundation

Lillian Wright and C. Emil Berglund Foundation

Corporate Commission of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians

Great River Energy

HGA Architects and Engineers, LLC

Leonard, Street and Deinard Foundation

Mayo Clinic

The Minneapolis Foundation

National Society of Colonial Dames of America

in the State of Minnesota

Elizabeth C. Quinlan Foundation, Inc.

The Saint Paul Foundation

UBS

Union Pacific Foundation

Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Foundation

Sustaining: $500-999
 

Boston Scientific Corporation

Gorilla Yogis

Pew Center for Arts and Heritage

Rock Island Company

University of Minnesota

Wells Fargo History Museum

Contributing: $250-499
 

Chinese Heritage Foundation Friends

Delta Kappa Gamma Society International

Friends of the Immigration History Research Center

Jewish Community Center of the Greater Saint Paul Area

Lutsen Villa Association

Mills Fleet Farm

Mintáhoe Catering & Events

New Century Club

Padilla Speer Beardsley, Inc.

Rhode Island State Grange Foundation, Inc.

The Women's Club of Minneapolis

Special Projects
 

The following donors made gifts in support of special initiatives that were completed in fiscal year 2011 or are in process:

3M Foundation

Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation

Katherine B. Andersen Fund of The Saint Paul Foundation

Best Buy Children's Foundation

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation

Bush Foundation

City of Saint Paul

Council of Regional Public Library System Administrators

Grotto Foundation

Martha and Art Kaemmer Fund of HRK Foundation

Hardenbergh Foundation

Hognander Family Foundation

The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation

Keewaydin Chapter NSDAR

The Mosaic Company

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Historical Publications and Records Commission

National Museum of the American Indian

National Society of Colonial Dames of America

in the State of Minnesota

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, L.L.P. Foundation

Carl and Verna Schmidt Foundation

Matching Gifts $1,000+
 

Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation

The Carolyn Foundation

Deluxe Corporation Foundation

H.B. Fuller Company Foundation

General Mills Foundation

IBM

Piper Jaffray Companies, Inc.

The Saint Paul Foundation

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation

Premier Partners

Explore Minnesota Tourism

Xcel Energy

Sponsors

American Express

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans

UPM Blandin

In-Kind
 

3M Foundation

Bon Appétit

D'Amico Catering

Ruttger's Bay Lake Lodge

Spectacle Shoppe, Inc.

A Time for Expression, LLC

University of Minnesota Ticket Office

Valspar Foundation

Media Partners
 

89.3 The Current

City Pages

KARE 11

Minnesota Public Radio

myTalk 107.1

Pioneer Press/TwinCities.com

Star Tribune

Vita.mn

WCCO Radio

The People of Minnesota

The Minnesota Historical Society gratefully acknowledges the people of Minnesota, who, through appropriations made by the Legislature and approved by the Governor, have supported the Society in its mission.  Appropriations from the state’s general fund as well as the new Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund / Legacy Amendment are helping Minnesotans, across the state, to better understand our past.