Our Donors' Impact
You Make An Incredible Impact
Your passion for investing for good in your community inspires us. Thank you for trusting us as your partner in giving. Your generosity is what makes our state a vibrant place to call home.
Meet Some of Our Donors
Investing in the Legacy of the Saint Paul Public Library
Learn how one couple’s gift of real estate will support young library patrons for future generations.
Read Their Story
Brothers Honor their Father’s Legacy by Investing in Hometown
Brothers Kip and Jeff are carrying on their parents’ mission to support the City of Wadena through their family foundation.
Read their story
Fostering Mary’s Teaching Legacy
Learn how one family established a scholarship fund to celebrate the lasting impact the former educator had on her students and loved ones.
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A Mother-Daughter Duo Carry on a Family Legacy
Bee and Sharon celebrate the lives of their loved ones by continuing their legacies of giving.
Meet the family
Real Estate Donation Offers One Donor New Ways to Support Human Rights
Learn how fundholder Dick Senese turned his property into gifts for his favorite causes with a real estate donation to his donor advised fund.
Read Dick's story
“ The needs are great now. So ... it’s best to put it in the hands of the people. It’s important to us to support local programs. Working with the Foundation has given us the opportunity to give these gifts during our lifetime.”
David, fundholder
85 Years of Impact
2025 marks the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation’s 85th anniversary. There is little in the Twin Cities that has not been touched by the Foundation, and over the years you — our fundholders — have expanded that reach and granted to organizations in nearly every county in the state.
The gifts of yesterday make us better poised to address new and emerging disparities today, to grow the strengths of our community and to foster a Minnesota to be proud of — one where all people and communities thrive.