Morgan Family Foundation: Social Equity Grants

Morgan Family Foundation: Social Equity Grants

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Morgan Family Fdn
Amount: More than US $10,000
Last Updated: December 18, 2025

Summary

The Morgan Family Foundation offers Social Equity Grants to support innovative initiatives and projects that promote social equity in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Grants are primarily awarded to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations and may also support advocacy efforts and capacity building. The Foundation focuses on reducing disparities faced by marginalized communities, fostering collaboration, and enhancing community leadership, all while adhering to its mission of ensuring equitable outcomes for all individuals.

Overview

The Foundation will accept requests for a variety of grant types, including: Program, Project, Capital, Start-Up and Operating Grants We welcome grant requests to support innovative program initiatives, short-term projects, capital requests, start-up or operating needs. Capacity Building Grant resources are available to invest in efforts to enhance the management and governance performance of charitable organizations that are addressing our themes of social equity in St. Cloud, global warming in Minnesota and end of life issues in Minnesota. Advocacy While the Foundation is prohibited from lobbying, we will consider funding permissible advocacy activities such as public education campaigns on a given topic, nonpartisan analysis study or research, training for nonprofits on how to engage effectively in advocacy, educating public policy makers on various issues, and nonpartisan election-related activity. Theme: Social Equity Social equity is central to our purpose, as we seek a just society in which all individuals have ample opportunities to thrive and outcomes are not determined by one’s heritage, physical characteristics, beliefs, residence or inclusion in any particular group. Social inequities directly challenge many different groups of people and in many different sectors of our society, and we all suffer when some are excluded from their full potential. The scope of this grant program is limited to advancing social equity in St. Cloud, Minnesota and/or the immediate vicinity. The focus of our social equity grantmaking is the reduction of unfair disparities for disadvantaged communities and at-risk populations in St. Cloud, Minnesota and for positive change in attitudes, practices and policies that lead to equitable outcomes for those communities. This includes, but is not limited to, disparities and inequities of race, class, religion, gender, age, immigrant status, sexual orientation, and ability, as well as inequities related to COVID-19. As the Foundation learns more about social equity in St. Cloud, we may narrow our focus further for future grant cycles. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: preparing individuals from marginalized and at-risk populations to serve and lead the community;building healthy relationships among various societal groups; andtriggering bold, collaborative community projects that advance social equity.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. The Morgan Family Foundation awards the vast majority of its grants to charitable, nonprofit organizations that are recognized by the IRS as 501(c)(3) public charities.Occasionally grants may be made to units of government.If a charitable project is being undertaken by an entity that does not have 501(c)(3) status, please contact the Foundation for eligibility.The Foundation welcomes collaboration with other grantmakers and favors grantseekers with multiple sources of support. The Foundation is willing to consider multi-year grant requests that do not exceed three years.

Ineligibility

Generally, the Foundation will not:make grants to individuals or for the benefit of pre-selected individualsprovide funds to lobby legislation or influence public electionssupport animal rights or animal welfare causespromote any particular religious doctrineserve as replacement funding for public programsfinance medical research.