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Form 990-PF for tax year 2024

Filed by MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$189,397,037
Total expenses
$209,369,790
Contributions and grants received
$4,133
Contributions, gifts and grants paid
$153,191,544
Fair market value of assets, end of year
$2,712,040,525

Listed in Part VIII

  • Erika Binger

    Director, Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $25,000
    Compensation
    $25,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    3
  • Noa Staryk

    Director

    Total calculated
    $25,000
    Compensation
    $25,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2
  • Karen Coleman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $25,000
    Compensation
    $25,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    5
  • Dana Anderson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $25,000
    Compensation
    $25,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    3
  • Kathy Tunheim

    Director, Board Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $25,000
    Compensation
    $25,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    6
  • Luther M Ragin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $25,000
    Compensation
    $25,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    3
  • Meghan Brown

    Director

    Total calculated
    $25,000
    Compensation
    $25,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2
  • Perry Moriearty

    Director

    Total calculated
    $25,000
    Compensation
    $25,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    3
  • Roger Sit

    Investment Committee

    Total calculated
    $10,000
    Compensation
    $10,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Theodore Staryk

    Director, Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $35,000
    Compensation
    $35,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    3
  • Michael Barry

    Investment Committee

    Total calculated
    $10,000
    Compensation
    $10,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Roy Swan

    Investment Committee

    Total calculated
    $10,000
    Compensation
    $10,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tonya Allen

    Director, President

    Total calculated
    $810,008
    Compensation
    $739,674
    Benefit plans
    $70,334
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Nichol Higdon

    Secretary, VP of Fin & Ops

    Total calculated
    $452,171
    Compensation
    $394,031
    Benefit plans
    $58,140
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Tamara Wallace

    Assistant Secretary

    Total calculated
    $155,704
    Compensation
    $123,127
    Benefit plans
    $31,577
    Expense account
    $1,000
    Hours/week
    40
  • Duchesne Drew

    Director

    Total calculated
    $25,000
    Compensation
    $25,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    3
  • john a powell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $31,250
    Compensation
    $31,250
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VIII of the Form 990-PF: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.

Grants paid on this return

Grants paid, cash basis (Part I, line 25, column (d))
$145,891,450
As filed, and sometimes filed as 0.
Grants paid, Part XV total (line 3a)
$145,891,450
The foundation's own total of the grants it itemizes.

These are the grants the foundation paid during the year. The “Contributions, gifts and grants paid” total above is the figure on the foundation's books. This return marks the accrual method, under which a grant is recorded when the foundation commits to it rather than when it pays, so the books total need not agree with the cash figures in this section: a grant promised one year and paid in another is counted in different years.

  • Minneapolis Foundation

    $10,000,000

    Minneapolis, MN

    for the GroundBreak Coalition special purpose fund

  • United States Energy Foundation

    $9,600,000

    San Francisco, CA

    to equitably decarbonize the Midwest by supporting powerful and inclusive coalitions with the ability to transform markets and the economy through state action in seven states

  • Minneapolis Foundation

    $5,000,000

    Minneapolis, MN

    for the GroundBreak Coalition special purpose fund

  • Minnesota Home Ownership Center

    $2,200,000

    Saint Paul, MN

    to bridge capacity needs and scale the deployment capacity of GroundBreak Coalition supported down payment assistance products

  • Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund

    $2,000,000

    Washington DC, DC

    for general operating support

  • Rewiring America Inc

    $2,000,000

    Washington, DC

    to advance equitable electrification in the Midwest through place-based demonstration projects and policy development

  • The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience

    $2,000,000

    Minneapolis, MN

    for award programs supporting research in neuroscience

  • Community Foundation of Jackson Hole

    $1,850,000

    Jackson, WY

    for family-directed giving

  • Greater Minnesota Housing Fund

    $1,750,000

    St Paul, MN

    for general operating support

  • Brick By Brick Training & Development Corporation

    $1,500,000

    Minneapolis, MN

    to purchase a 400+ single family rental portfolio of properties and equitably reposition them for homeownership

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2 grants to individuals, $100,000 in total. Counted where the foundation named the recipient as a person or marked it as an individual, as filed. Who received them, where, and why are not published.

Provenance

Return type
form_990_pf
Tax year
2024
Filed
14 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.1
Source object
202513189349104906

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