The Northwest Minnesota Foundation provides the structure by which individuals, businesses and organizations help create the asset base of their community - contributing financially to the care of its people and the quality of its services.

NMF provides a convenient, flexible, and effective vehicle to help charitable individuals ensure that the region remains a healthy and supportive place for all of its people well into the future.

NMF Helps Communities By:

• Supporting long-term benefits for communities in northwest Minnesota by creating and generating community capital, and charitable endowments that will benefit our region now and for generations to come. We establish, develop and maintain endowments - the lasting investment for future generations.
• Supporting the leadership, ideas and creativity of our local communities with field of interest and donor advised funds.
• Protecting and enhancing the region's unique human and natural resources.

NMF Benefits Donors By:

• Promoting the right of every person in Northwest Minnesota to participate in philanthropy.
• Matching the philanthropic interest of donors with new and existing community needs that require support.
• Mobilizing individuals to become active partners in building better community places.
• Providing a permanent entity for receiving and managing charitable gifts and bequests.
• Exercising and promoting leadership in meeting the changing needs in the region.
• Being responsive to donors' interests by providing a flexible and prudently managed vehicle for directing their charitable assets to their community's greatest benefit.

Community foundations are flexible vehicles for donors' varied interests. We listen in order to understand your goals and interests. We inform and educate you about your giving options and funding opportunities. Once your gift is made, we exercise prudent stewardship to ensure that your charitable assets are soundly managed for the benefit of both current and future generations. NMF is a steward through which private assets entrusted to us by generations of donors are wisely invested to meet the challenges of contemporary life.

NMF Supports Nonprofit Organizations 

Benefiting a specific nonprofit organization, NMF organizational (agency) funds are established to assist regional nonprofits with the important work of building their assets bases. Working with NMF, nonprofit organizations can build endowment funds, organize specific capital project funding efforts and provide gift opportunities for their donors. NMF serves as an active participant, helping community organizations further their missions and ensuring continued operating success.