Reproductive Freedom Fund
To ensure access to essential health care and support those who need it most, the Reproductive Freedom Fund will resource organizations and efforts to provide care across Minnesota, now and in perpetuity. Join us in defending the right to comprehensive health care and bodily autonomy.
Innovators Go Further Together
Innovators are central to the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota’s vision of a state where all people can thrive. We invest in young leaders ages 16-24 and help them scale their vision and ideas through skills-based workshops with a transformative cohort model and coaching to maximize impact. The eighth cohort of WFM Innovators just began their year together.
Summit Builds Power & Community
This fall, the Women’s Foundation and Marnita’s Table hosted our second summit for leaders in all of our Young Women’s Initiative programs. Convenings like the Summit create real-time connections that strengthen community while building skills and knowledge about policy making, leadership, and the future of YWI.
See our 2025 Impact
Thanks to our generous supporters, in the last year we invested $5.2 million in communities, reached 50 counties, and convened with partners all over the state so that, together, we could drive transformational change.
Status of Women & Girls+ in Minnesota
Our newest report covers key measures of economics, safety, health, and leadership, and uses an intersectional lens to show how inequities impact communities differently. The Status of Women & Girls+ is the leading, most comprehensive research on women, girls, and gender-expansive communities in Minnesota.
Our Purpose
We invest in innovative community-based, community-led solutions to ensure equal opportunity and pathways to economic security for girls, women, and families across Minnesota.
What We Do
Invest in Systems Change for Gender & Racial Justice
Founded in 1983, the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota is the first statewide women’s foundation in the country holding a unique niche among Minnesota foundations.
As a statewide community foundation, we invest, leverage, learn, influence, and scale to ensure community-based, community-led solutions to achieve gender and racial justice in Minnesota.
Our Areas of Impact
What We Aim to Achieve
Economic Justice
To realize economic justice and a stronger Minnesota for families and communities, we invest in women and girls as key drivers of economic growth.
Leadership & Community Power
Our vision is a state where all women, girls, and gender-expansive people are valued as solution-builders and leaders within their communities.
Holistic Well-Being & Reproductive Justice
To support the mind, body, and spirit of women, we catalyze the conditions to ensure they are well in every area of their being.
Safety
We catalyze the conditions so that women, girls, and gender-expansive people are free from all forms of violence and can be safe at home, school, and in their communities.
Support Our Work
Explore Ways to Give
Your support fuels the innovative community-based, community-led work happening across the state. Explore our funding opportunities.
Latest Updates from the Blog
Nov 17, 2025
Investing in Economic Opportunity Grows the Power of Community
Nov 14, 2025
Choosing a Path to Make Women’s Lives Better
By Ann Harrington. At 19, Katy Backes had a conversation that set her on a path for her life’s work….
Nov 3, 2025
WFM Invests $45,000 in Innovative Young Leaders
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