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ENVIRONMENT/ANIMALS
The Environment/Animals subject area includes two broad categories (Environment and Animals) that are further divided into subcategories. Environment grants go to organizations that focus on the preservation and protection of the environment, botanical gardens and societies, urban beautification, and environmental education. Recipients of Environment grants include recycling programs, resources conservation, botanical gardens and wildlife preservation organizations.
The Animals subject area includes grants to organizations that focus on the care and protection of animals, including wildlife, pets and specialty animals. Examples of such organizations include animal population control agencies, bird sanctuaries and zoos.
In 2005, the Giving in Minnesota sample made $28 million in grants to the Environment/Animals subject area. Grantmaking in this category accounted for 4 percent of the state's total 2005 grant dollars, with the Natural Resources Conservation & Protection subcategory receiving by far the largest share (62 percent) of Environment/Animal grants (see Figure AA).
Trends in Environment/Animals Grantmaking
After holding steady at 3 percent since 2001, the share of Minnesota grantmaking going to Environment/Animals increased to 4 percent in 2005 (see Table 13 and Figure AB). As has been true since at least 1992, Environment/Animals continued to receive a slightly higher share of grant dollars nationally (6 percent in 2005) than in Minnesota (see Figure AC).
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Environment/Animals Grantmaking by Grantmaker Type
In 2005, private foundations continued to give the most grant dollars of any grantmaker type by far to Environment/Animals. Private foundations' share of Minnesota grant dollars to Environment/Animals increased from 71 percent in 2004 to 73 percent in 2005, although this growth was much smaller than the 14-percentage point increase between 2003 and 2004 (see Table 20 and Figure AD).
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Corporate grantmakers' share of Environment/Animals grants decreased substantially from 28 percent to 17 percent between 2003 and 2004, and then increased moderately to 20 percent in 2005. The recent fluctuations in corporate grantmaking in the Environment/Animals subcategory are due primarily to the start or end of a few large grants, rather than to a broader trend among corporate givers.
Community/public foundations continued to give the smallest share of grant dollars for Environment/Animals. Their share of Environment/Animals grant dollars declined from 15 percent in 2003 to 12 percent in 2004 and 7 percent in 2005, which is the smallest share of grants by any grantmaker type to any subject area. The decline is due in part to the end of a two-year, $500,000 grant to Como Zoo and Conservatory given
by The Saint Paul Foundation in 2003, and to private foundations' increasing share in this area.
Largest Environment/Animals Grantmakers
Minnesota's five largest Environment/Animals grantmakers in 2005:
- The McKnight Foundation
- Bush Foundation
- 3M Foundation and Corporation
- Cargill Foundation and Citizenship Committee
- The Minneapolis Foundation
Environment/Animals Grantmaking by Subcategory
In 2005, Natural Resources Conservation & Protection received the largest share of Environment/ Animals grant dollars at 62 percent (see Table 21 and Figure AE), which is consistent with previous years. The Other Environmental category received the next-largest share, although it was substantially less (12 percent), followed by General Environmental Programs (10 percent).
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Other Environmental had the greatest increase in share, 7 percentage points, between 2004 and 2005, while the share of Environment/Animals grants going to General Environmental Programs grew by 4 percentage points.
Zoos/Zoological Societies experienced the largest decrease in share of Environment/Animals grants, from 12 percent in 2004 to 2 percent in 2005. This decrease is due primarily to the end of a one-time grant of $1.3 million dollars from the E.M. Pearson Foundation to the Como Zoo
and Conservatory in 2004. As reported earlier in this report, the E.M. Pearson Foundation spent out its grant dollars in that year.
Top Environment/Animals Grant Recipients
The top five recipients of Minnesota's Environment/Animals grant dollars in 2005:
- Energy Foundation (California)
- Conservation International (Washington, D.C.)
- The Nature Conservancy (Virginia)
- Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation
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About This Report
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The Minnesota Council on Foundations produces
Giving in Minnesota to provide a comprehensive analysis of the trends and patterns of giving by organized philanthropy in the state.
This report provides an overview of giving by Minnesota foundations and corporations domestically and internationally, as well as giving by individual Minnesotans. The report also provides an in-depth analysis of the Giving in Minnesota sample of the largest Minnesota foundations and corporations by subject area, geographic area, intended beneficiary and support type.
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