About Isaiah
We are a statewide multiracial group of faith communities, Black barbershops, childcare centers, and more fighting for racial and economic justice in Minnesota.
Focus Areas
Racial justiceEconomic justiceImmigrationChild care / Early childhood educationWorker rightsFaith-based community organizingIslamophobia prevention / Muslim community support
Who They Fund
congregations and faith communities (including mosques)childcare centerscommunity institutions in Minnesotamulti-racial communitiesworking familiesemerging community leaders/aspiring public leaders
About Isaiah
Isaiah’s 2025 giving is defined by a single large transfer: a $8,753,000 grant to Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation for an endowment fund. That one award sits alongside a much more hands-on organizing model, including a 2025 Clergy Organizing Cohort designed to develop faith leaders for racial and economic justice work. The foundation’s public profile points to a statewide multiracial network of faith communities, Black barbershops, childcare centers, and other community institutions working in Minnesota. Its focus areas include racial justice, economic justice, immigration, child care, worker rights, faith-based community organizing, and Islamophobia prevention and Muslim community support. The mix suggests a funder that combines large-scale institutional support with leadership development and coalition-building. The clergy cohort adds a concrete example of how the foundation invests in people, not only institutions: participants receive a stipend while building skills to mobilize teams, tell a public narrative, and lead organizing efforts. Across the available records, Isaiah appears oriented toward faith-rooted public life and community power in Minnesota.
What Isaiah Funds
Isaiah supports faith-based organizing through structured leadership development. In 2025, it launched the Clergy Organizing Cohort, a statewide program for clergy that runs from June to December and focuses on faith-rooted organizing, narrative work, and political organizing. The foundation also connects its racial justice agenda to community institutions: its own description highlights Black barbershops, childcare centers, and faith communities working together for racial and economic justice. Child care is another clear theme in the foundation’s stated focus areas, paired with early childhood education and childcare policy advocacy in its topic taxonomy. Worker rights also appear in the taxonomy, alongside labor and working families policy, showing that the foundation’s issue set includes both organizing and policy work. Immigration and Islamophobia prevention round out the listed focus areas, indicating a broad community-advocacy portfolio rather than a single-issue strategy.
How Isaiah Gives
The only grant-size figure provided for a named recent grant is $8,753,000, while the active clergy cohort lists a fixed grant size of $2,500. That combination suggests a very large institutional award paired with smaller participation-based support. The foundation is a public charity with annual grants of $8,753,000 and total assets of $4,271,549. It funds individuals: false, and makes program-related investments: false. The available records show one 2025 recipient in the recent-grants data, so recurring grantee patterns cannot be established from this set. The clergy cohort accepts unsolicited participants, which is the clearest application-related detail in the data.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$8.8M
Total Assets
$4.3M
Total Revenue
$6.9M
Total Expenses
$13.1M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
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