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Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation's Community Partners Grants
community developmentlocal charitable needs
Who can apply: Specific criteria are provided on the program page.
Deadline: September 15, 2026
About Communitygiving
Strengthening local communities by empowering partner community foundations through centralized services, fund administration, grants, scholarships and donor support to maximize donor impact.
Focus Areas
educationeconomy/job readiness/entrepreneurshipcommunity engagement/social capitalartswomen and girlsspecial needs/disability servicesrural poverty/community relief
Who They Fund
nonprofit organizations (grant recipients)individual students / scholarship recipients
Funding Style
general operating supportscholarship funding
About Communitygiving
Communitygiving’s recent grantmaking is defined by large, recurring general operating support for Central Minnesota institutions, with several grants in Saint Cloud crossing the $300,000 and $1 million marks across 2023 and 2024. The pattern points to a community foundation that uses its resources to stabilize core local organizations rather than only funding short-term projects. Among the largest awards are $1,239,464 to Anna Marie's Alliance and $1,183,300 to Great River Children's Museum, both in Saint Cloud. Those gifts sit alongside continued support for healthcare, human services, youth programs, and education, including repeated funding for Centracare Health Foundation, United Way of Central Minnesota, and Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota. The mix of scholarship funding and unrestricted support shows a dual role: backing nonprofit operations while also channeling aid directly to students. Its active grant programs reinforce that structure, covering women and girls, special needs services, rural poverty, arts, and community builders across Central Minnesota.
What Communitygiving Funds
Communitygiving supports human services through operating grants to organizations such as Anna Marie's Alliance in Saint Cloud for general operating support, indicating a preference for funding organizational continuity. In health and well-being, it gave $551,866 to Centracare Health Foundation in 2023 and $291,085 in 2024, both for general operating support, showing repeat support for the same institution. Education appears in both institutional and scholarship form: Crown College received $506,000 for scholarship funds, while St Cloud Technical and Community College received $331,518 for scholarship funds. The foundation also funds youth and family programming, including $393,620 to Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota and $334,471 to St Cloud Area Family YMCA, both for general operating support. Arts access is another stated area, reflected in a Central Minnesota Arts Grant round for small to medium-sized arts organizations.
How Communitygiving Gives
Typical awards cluster at modest-to-mid scale, with p25 at $9,000, a median of $15,000, and p75 at $35,584. The recent grants list also shows that the foundation makes a smaller number of very large operating grants alongside many smaller awards, including scholarship funding. Recipients repeat across years: Great River Children's Museum, Centracare Health Foundation, United Way of Central Minnesota, Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota, Anna Marie's Alliance, St Cloud Area Family YMCA, and The Regeneration Center all appear more than once. Communitygiving is a public charity and a mixed community foundation, and its scholarship activity includes an online application portal with applications opening December 1 each year for its CommunityGiving Scholarships program.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$16.7M
Total Assets
$282.6M
Total Revenue
$46.2M
Total Expenses
$23.1M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $9K and $36K, with a median of $15K.
25th Percentile
$9K
Median
$15K
75th Percentile
$36K
Geographic Reach
Regional35 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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