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
The sixth cohort of WFM Innovators just concluded their year of developing and scaling their ideas through skills-based workshops while building community and supporting one another. Final projects showed off their leadership in advancing social change. Innovators, ages 16-24, receive WFM microgrants investing in their vision and ideas, with a transformative cohort model, and coaching to maximize their impact.
2025 Legislative Session Wrap-Up
Facing a divided session, WFM focused our efforts on education, community building, and raising awareness about the data and lived realities of women, girls, and communities in Minnesota. Key legislation that passed from our policy agenda includes full no-cost coverage for vasectomies, maternal and child health advisory task force, and some funding for crime victim’s services. There is more to accomplish in sessions ahead.
See our 2024 Impact
Thanks to our generous supporters, in the last year we increased our grantmaking by 77%, reached 30 counties, and convened with partners all over the state.
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
Oct 15, 2025
Celebrating Legacy & the Impact of Research
Aug 20, 2025
MN Lynx, 2AB Partner with WFM to Invest in Safety
Aug 11, 2025
Minnesota Menstrual Products in Schools Toolkit (MPST)
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