About Medica Foundation
Medica Foundation primarily funds community mental and behavioral health programs across the Twin Cities metro and greater Minnesota, with a secondary emphasis on early childhood health and rural health access. They support both frontline service providers (crisis, counseling, recovery, shelters) and larger institutional partners through strategic grants, favoring repeated investments in local organizations that deliver direct client services. Giving also targets populations with elevated needs—youth, veterans, survivors of domestic violence, and immigrant communities—indicating an equity-oriented focus on barriers to care. The foundation’s grants are predominantly mid-size awards aimed at sustaining program delivery and capacity rather than one-off seed funding.
Focus Areas
Community behavioral health and counseling centers in the Twin Cities (e.g., outpatient clinics, recovery programs, counseling nonprofits)Early childhood mental health and developmental supports (including specialized clinics and child-focused counseling)Rural health access and county public health partnerships (supporting clinics and community health networks outside urban core)Services for survivors of domestic violence and housing/crisis support for vulnerable women and familiesStrategic institutional partnerships with regional health systems and university initiatives to strengthen system-level health capacity
About Medica Foundation
Medica Foundation’s recent grantmaking is anchored by repeated $200,000 strategic grants to the University of Minnesota Foundation and Emma Norton Services, alongside similar awards to organizations working in behavioral health, early childhood health, and health equity across Minnesota. The pattern points to a local funder that uses substantial grants to support direct services and system-level capacity, not just short-term projects. In 2025, the foundation continued funding a mix of university partners, community mental health providers, and shelter-based service organizations, including Mewinzha Ondaadiziike Wiigaming for early childhood health and Hennepin Healthcare Foundation for strategic work. Their grantees range from outpatient counseling and recovery programs to county public health partners and domestic violence service providers, which matches the foundation’s stated emphasis on community behavioral health and counseling, early childhood mental health, rural health access, and support for vulnerable populations. The grant list also shows repeat awards to the same organizations over multiple years, suggesting ongoing relationships rather than isolated transactions. Across the portfolio, Medica Foundation appears to favor Minnesota-based nonprofit and institutional partners that can deliver direct care or strengthen health infrastructure.
What Medica Foundation Funds
Behavioral health is the clearest through line in the foundation’s grantmaking. In 2025, Medica Foundation gave $140,000 to Ellison Center for behavioral health, $140,000 to Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc for behavioral health, and $140,000 to Reclaim for behavioral health. The portfolio also includes $100,000 to Annex Teen Clinic for behavioral health, showing support for youth-facing care. Early childhood health appears as a separate funding lane: the foundation awarded $200,000 to Mewinzha Ondaadiziike Wiigaming for early childhood health in 2025. Rural access and public-health partnerships also show up in the grants list, including $70,000 to Wright County Public Health for behavioral health in both 2024 and 2025. Domestic violence and housing-related support are part of the mix as well, with grants to Emma Norton Services and Women’s Advocates Inc.
How Medica Foundation Gives
Medica Foundation’s typical grant size is mid-range: the 25th percentile is $10,000, the median is $10,000, and the 75th percentile is $37,500. The recent grants list shows that the foundation also makes larger strategic awards, including repeated $200,000 and $140,000 grants. Several recipients appear in multiple years, such as Emma Norton Services, University of Minnesota Foundation, The Link, Missions Inc Programs, Wright County Public Health, Churches United in Ministry, Raices Sagradas Community Mental Health, and Women’s Advocates Inc. That repeat pattern suggests ongoing relationships. The foundation is a private foundation and funds nonprofits; it also makes unsolicited grants through its published application process.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$4.9M
Total Assets
$76.2M
Total Revenue
$7.6M
Total Expenses
$3.5M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $38K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$38K
Geographic Reach
Local5 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
ELIZABETH ERICKSON
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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