Community Innovation Grants & PRIs - Bush Foundation
The Bush Foundation’s Community Innovation Grants & PRIs fund scalable, innovative projects and leaders to drive transformative community change across Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Native nations.
Funder: Bush Foundation
Due Dates: Rolling (applications accepted year-round)
Funding Amounts: Grants in 2024 ranged from $472,000 to $8.2 million, with terms of 3–8 years; no set cap on amount or duration.
Summary: Supports scalable, innovative ideas and leaders to drive positive community change across the Bush Foundation’s region.
Key Information: Highly competitive; applicants should contact the Foundation before applying.
Description
The Bush Foundation’s Community Innovation Grants & PRIs program invests in promising ideas and the people behind them to improve communities across Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and the 23 Native nations that share this geography. The program is open to ideas addressing any issue, at any stage of development, as long as they align with the Foundation’s values and have the potential to be scaled, adapted, or to inform others. Funding is provided through both grants and program-related investments (PRIs) such as loans or guarantees. The Foundation emphasizes learning from both successes and failures and seeks to support transformative, community-driven change.
