All Projects

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Recipient
Carleton College
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Legacy Grant

Blue Earth
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Olmsted
Rice
Scott
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Waseca
Recipient
Celebration of a City AKA Rochesterfest
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Legacy Grant

Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Mower
Olmsted
Wabasha
Wabasha
Recipient
Choral Arts Ensemble of Rochester
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Legacy Grant

Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hennepin
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Wabasha
Wabasha
Recipient
Theatre L'Homme Dieu
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$16,500

Legacy Organization Arts and Cultural Heritage

Douglas
Otter Tail
Pope
Stevens
Grant
Stearns
Wright
Wright
Hennepin
Dakota
Carver
Benton
Benton
Recipient
Absolute Theatre
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Legacy Grant

Dodge
Douglas
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Wabasha
Waseca
Waseca
Recipient
Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Inc AKA The Anderson Center at Tower View
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Legacy Grant

Anoka
Dakota
Faribault
Goodhue
Hennepin
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Wabasha
Wabasha
Recipient
Friends of Peterson
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Legacy Grant

Fillmore
Hennepin
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Olmsted
Recipient
Red Wing Arts Association AKA Red Wing Arts
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Legacy Grant

Anoka
Dakota
Dodge
Faribault
Goodhue
Hennepin
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Rice
Recipient
Great River Shakespeare Festival
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Legacy Grant

Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Nicollet
Olmsted
Rice
Wabasha
Wabasha
Recipient
Southeastern Minnesota Youth Orchestra, Inc
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Legacy Grant

Dodge
Goodhue
Mower
Olmsted
Steele
Wabasha
Wabasha
Recipient
Frozen River Film Festival
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Legacy Grant

Blue Earth
Carver
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Isanti
Nicollet
Olmsted
Pipestone
Pope
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
St. Louis
Steele
Wabasha
Wabasha
Recipient
Sandbar Storytelling Festival
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Legacy Grant

Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Olmsted
Olmsted
Recipient
DNR
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Anoka
Benton
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Dodge
Goodhue
Hennepin
Isanti
Kanabec
Le Sueur
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Nicollet
Olmsted
Pine
Ramsey
Rice
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$198,250
Fund Source
Benton
Stearns
Recipient
Benton Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$163,639
Fund Source

Little Rock Lake,in Benton County, is negatively impacted for nutrients. Little Rock Lake is a significant regional recreational lake. Toxins released by blue green algae blooms have been the highest ever measured by the Minnesota Department of Health. Given the importance of this resource and the severity of the water quality problems, obtaining tangible water quality improvements is a high priority in the Benton and Morrison County local water management plans.

Benton
Recipient
Benton Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,410
Fund Source

The water quality and recretional value of Little Rock is negatively impacted by phosphorus. One important strategy involves reducing the quantity of phosphorus imported to the watershed through animal feeding operations. Farm management strategis coupled with traditional conservation practices will reduce surface runoff and phosphorus transport from feedlots and fields. This project will assist corporate poultry industry and local farmers to put into practice animal feed management strategies that reduce the amount of phosphorus contained in chicken feed rations.

Benton
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$79,400
Fund Source

Little Rock Creek, a cold-water trout stream in central Minnesota, is impaired due to the lack of trout and other cold water fish. The trout are absent because of high water temperatures, low dissolved oxygen and high nitrate levels, stressors caused from a lack of base flow and overuse of groundwater. This project continues a 2011 initiative to assist irrigators in the Little Rock Creek groundwater recharge area with managing the timing and amount of irrigation applied to their crops.

Benton
Morrison
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$227,500
Fund Source

The Little Rock Lake Total Maximum Daily Load study has identified areas in the watershed where phosphorus reduction is needed and what best management practices need to be applied. This is a coordinated implementation effort with Benton and Morrison Soil and Water Conservation Districts and Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Little Rock Lake Association, the livestock industry and other partners to install best management practices at numerous sites to continue cleaning up Little Rock Lake.

Benton
Morrison
Recipient
MN DNR
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,791,000

Provide approximately 15 matching grants for local parks, trail, acquisition of natural areas and trails to connect people safety to desirable community locations and regional or state facilities.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Tonantzin Tlalli Guadalupe
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,880
Local Arts Initiative
Nobles
Rock
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Hennepin
Olmsted
Dakota
Recipient
Southeast SWCD Technical Support Joint Powers Board
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
Fund Source

The Lower Mississippi River Feedlot Management in MN project will be leveraging State funding from BWSR to provide match for a United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS) Regional Conservations Partners Program (RCPP). BWSR will provide technical and financial assistance to plan and design projects to mitigate feedlot runoff from smaller (less than 300 animal units or AUs*), open lot feedlots in southeastern Minnesota.

Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Katha Dance Theatre
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$88,936

Katha Dance Theatre (KDT) will produce a mainstage program of three world premiere dance concerts to share the art, culture, and history of India through the art of Kathak dance - the 2,000-year-old classical dance style of North India. These productions will include the world premiere of GANGA. The Myth and Reality, the world premiere of PANCHATANTRA, and the world premiere of PRAKRITIR PRATISODH Nature's Revenge. The first will premiere in St. Paul, the second in Minneapolis, and the third will play in another Twin Cities venue (TBD).

Anoka
Blue Earth
Carver
Dakota
Faribault
Hennepin
Itasca
Olmsted
Ramsey
Scott
Stearns
Washington
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$460,000

Leveraging new statewide climate data, we will assess future change in the duration, frequency and magnitude of heavy precipitation and drought events and engage communities to prepare for these extremes.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$79,276
Fund Source

The Benton County Local Water Management Plan's first priority concern is feedlot and nutrient management. Our objective is to reduce or minimize the negative impact of animal manure and fertilizer on surface and ground water by increasing the adoption of feedlot, manure, fertilizer and pasture best management practices.

Benton
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
Fund Source

The Benton SWCD is applying to use Clean Water funds to work with livestock producers in implementing a variety of BMPs including, but not limited to cropland erosion control projects (water and sediment control basins, grade stabilization structures), extending buffers where appropriate to exceed state buffer laws, riparian pasture management and conversion to other uses, nutrient management and feedlot pollution control systems. Our goal is to reduce runoff from these sites and improve water quality within the Mayhew Lake and Big Elk Lake watersheds.

Benton
Recipient
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust Inc
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$793,000

The ENRTF grant will introduce 12 young people to conservation careers through full-time, paid internships and apprenticeships on the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge (16 FTEs over 2 years).

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Metropolitan Council
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$326,500
Fund Source

This project will provide condition monitoring and problem investigation monitoring at the following sites. Mississippi River: Tributaries include Bassett Creek, Cannon River, Crow River, and Minnehaha Creek. Minnesota River: Tributaries include Eagle Creek, Riley Creek, and Willow Creek. St. Croix River: Tributary includes Valley Creek.

Wright
Washington
Stearns
Sibley
Sherburne
Scott
Rice
Renville
Pine
Nicollet
Morrison
Mille Lacs
Meeker
McLeod
Le Sueur
Isanti
Hennepin
Dakota
Chisago
Carver
Benton
Anoka
Recipient
Benton County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to microfilmed records.
Benton
Recipient
Better Futures Minnesota
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,318,000

Expanding waste diversion practices across the state this project will: create 16 jobs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, provide data to measure the social, economic, and environmental benefits of waste diversion.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Frozen River Film Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$47,439

Minnesota Festival Support

Aitkin
Benton
Chisago
Dakota
Fillmore
Hennepin
Houston
Le Sueur
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Vintage Band Music Festival AKA Vintage Band Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,550

Minnesota Festival Support

Aitkin
Benton
Cook
Dakota
Douglas
Goodhue
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Stearns
Steele
Washington
Recipient
Hot Summer Jazz Festival AKA Twin Cities Jazz Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000

Minnesota Festival Support

Anoka
Becker
Carver
Chisago
Clay
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Goodhue
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Mille Lacs
Olmsted
Pine
Ramsey
Rice
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Steele
Washington
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Mid West Music Fest
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,100

Minnesota Festival Support

Anoka
Blue Earth
Carver
Chisago
Clay
Cook
Crow Wing
Dakota
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mower
Nobles
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
St. Louis
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Wright
Recipient
India Association of Minnesota
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,920

Minnesota Festival Support

Anoka
Chisago
Hennepin
Isanti
Olmsted
Ramsey
Stearns
St. Louis
Washington
Recipient
India Association of Minnesota
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,920

Minnesota Festival Support

Anoka
Chisago
Hennepin
Isanti
Olmsted
Ramsey
Stearns
St. Louis
Washington
Recipient
Frozen River Film Festival
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,035

Minnesota Festival Support

Aitkin
Chisago
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Hennepin
Houston
Lac qui Parle
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
St. Louis
Wabasha
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Red Wing Arts Association AKA Red Wing Arts
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,690

Minnesota Festival Support

Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
International Institute of Minnesota
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000

Minnesota Festival Support

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Houston
Recipient
Austin Area Commission for the Arts AKA Austin Area Arts
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,934

Minnesota Festival Support

Blue Earth
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Waseca
Winona
Recipient
Pollinator Friendly Alliance
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Minnesota Festival Support

Aitkin
Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Cook
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Isanti
Itasca
Murray
Nicollet
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
Polk
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
St. Louis
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Wadena