Named Endowment Funds

The following individuals, families, and organizations are gratefully acknowledged for their named endowment funds, which provide an ongoing source of support for museum operations, programs, exhibitions, and acquisitions (reflects market values as of June 30, 2022).

FUNDS OF $10,000,000 AND ABOVE

  • Mary Griggs Burke Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Ruth and Bruce Dayton Fund
  • John R. Van Derlip Trust Fund
  • Ralph Whelan Trust

FUNDS OF $5,000,000– $9,999,999

  • Ruth Ann Dayton Chinese Rooms Endowment Fund
  • C. Curtis Dunnavan Fund for the Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer
  • Gale Family Endowment
  • Nivin and Duncan MacMillan Endowment Fund for the Director and President
  • Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Trust Fund

FUNDS OF $2,500,000–$4,999,999

  • Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Bell Fund
  • Walter C. and Mary C. Briggs Trust Fund
  • Mary Griggs Burke Fund
  • Patrick and Aimee Butler Fund for the Curatorship of Paintings
  • Driscoll Art Accessions Endowment Fund
  • William Hood Dunwoody Fund
  • Mark and Mary Goff Fiterman Fund
  • Kenneth and Elayne Hengler Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad Fund for the Deputy Director and Chief Curator
  • Elizabeth MacMillan Endowment Fund for the Chair of Paintings
  • The McKnight/Members Fund for Community Programs
  • Putnam Dana McMillan Fund
  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment for Mid-Level Curatorships
  • Target Foundation Special Exhibitions Fund

FUNDS OF $1,000,000–$2,499,999

  • John E. and Marion Andrus III Fund in Support of the Department of Prints and Drawings
  • Anonymous Fund
  • James Ford Bell Foundation and the Bell Family Fund for Decorative Arts
  • Marvin and Betty Borman Endowment
  • The Bush Foundation Fund
  • Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer Endowment Fund
  • Friends of Bruce Dayton Art Acquisition Fund
  • Jane Emison Fund for the Associate Curatorship of Indian and Southeast Asian Art
  • Richard P. and Isobel R. Gale Fund for the Curator of Asian Art
  • Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad Endowment for Twentieth Century Paintings
  • Carl and Holly Jones Endowment for Prints and Drawings
  • Mary Joanne and James R. Jundt Fund
  • The Barbara S. Longfellow Endowed Acquisition Fund
  • William and Harriet Ludwick Endowment for Western Art
  • Ted and Dr. Roberta Mann Foundation Endowment Fund
  • Siri and Bob Marshall Endowment for American Paintings
  • McClurg Fund
  • Sheila C. and John L. Morgan Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Guilford A. Morse Fund
  • Lily S. Place Fund
  • Suzanne S. Roberts Endowment for Asian Art
  • Rhodes Robertson Fund
  • Christina N. and Swan J. Turnblad Memorial Fund
  • Mary Ruth Weisel Endowment for Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

FUNDS OF $500,000–$999,999

  • John E Andrus III Curatorship of Prints and Drawings
  • John E. and Marion Andrus III Fund for Support of Prints and Drawings Internships
  • Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Bell Fund for Decorative Arts
  • James Ford Bell Foundation Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Jane and James Emison Endowment for Native American Art
  • Friends Endowment Fund for Education
  • Louis W. Hill Jr. Memorial Fund
  • Richard Lewis Hillstrom Fund
  • John and Ruth Huss Fund for Decorative Arts
  • Marguerite S. McNally Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Donald McNeely Family Fund In Tribute to Marjorie McNeely
  • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Exhibitions Endowment Fund
  • Joanne Robson Fund
  • The Fred R. Salisbury II Fund
  • Larry E. Simon Endowment for Special Exhibitions
  • Star Tribune Foundation Endowment Fund
  • Walter H. and Valborg P. Ude Memorial Fund
  • Donald Weesner Charitable Trust
  • Windgate Foundation Endowment for Acquisitions of Contemporary Craft of Living Artists

FUNDS OF $250,000–$499,999

  • Atherton and Winifred Bean Fund
  • David Winton Bell Foundation Fund
  • Marilyn C. Benson Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Martin and Brown Foundation Endowment Fund
  • Mary and Robyn Campbell Fund for Art Books
  • David and Margaret Christenson Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • George and Marjorie Dixon Endowment Fund
  • Jane and James Emison Endowment for South Asian and Indian Art
  • Richard and Beverly Fink Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Dolly J. Fiterman Fund
  • Patricia and Peter Frechette Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • The Herberger Foundation Endowment Fund
  • Joan Herreid Memorial Docent Lecture Fund
  • Leonard and Mary Lou Hoeft Fund
  • Douglas J. and Victoria Galloway Holmen Endowment Fund
  • Anne and Hadlai Hull Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Winton Jones Endowment Fund for Prints and Drawings
  • Eloise and Elliot Kaplan Endowment for Judaica
  • Florence S. Lasher Fund
  • Katherine Kittredge McMillan Memorial Fund
  • The Medtronic Foundation Fund
  • Alida R. Messinger Fund
  • Frances Norbeck Fund
  • Marilyn and Valdemar Olson Endowment Fund for Education
  • Linda and Lawrence Perlman Photography Endowment
  • Southways Exhibition Development Fund
  • Travelers Companies Fund
  • David and Ruth Waterbury Endowment for Contemporary Craft
  • Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Wells and Mrs. John Roller Fund
  • Donald and Betty Winston Exhibition Fund
  • Milton K. and Margie M. Woodhouse Endowment for Art Acquisition

FUNDS OF $100,000–$249,999

  • Anonymous Fund
  • Tess E. Armstrong Fund
  • James Ford Bell Foundation Fund in honor of Charles H. Bell and Lucy W. Bell
  • Julia B. Bigelow Fund
  • Walter R. Bollinger Fund
  • The Bridgman Foundation Fund
  • Joan and Gary Capen Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Carolyn Foundation Fund
  • Mr. and Mrs. Leonard G. Carpenter Fund
  • Folwell W. Coan Fund
  • John and Myrtle Coe Fund
  • Rusty and Burt Cohen Fund
  • John Cowles Family Fund
  • Mrs. Thomas M. Crosby, Sr. Fund
  • Marion Cross Fund
  • Anson Cutts Trust
  • Deborah Davenport and Stewart Stender Endowment for American Folk Art
  • David Draper Dayton Fund
  • Deluxe Corporation Foundation Fund for Education
  • William C. Dietrich Endowment for 19th Century Paintings
  • Michael and Kathy Dougherty Fund
  • The Friends of the Institute Transportation Fund
  • The David Gerdes Education Fund
  • Merrill H. Gibbs Family Fund
  • Gary L. Gliem Endowment for Japanese Art
  • Greiling Family Fund for Art Acquisition
  • N. Bud and Beverly Grossman Fund
  • William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund
  • Hognander Family Endowment for Scandinavian Art
  • Inga M. Holstad Fund
  • Frank J. Indihar, M.D. Fund for Art Acquisition
  • Paul C. Johnson, Jr. Fund
  • Helen Jones Fund for Asian Art
  • Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fund
  • Allen and Kathy Lenzmeier Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Ella Sage Little Fund
  • Lund Food Holdings, Inc., Lunds and Byerly’s Fund
  • Shirley Mahowald and Henry Kinsell Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Marbrook Foundation Fund
  • Ella S. Martin Fund
  • Walter McCarthy and Clara Ueland Endowment for Photographs
  • The McKnight Foundation Fund
  • Minnesota Artist Fund
  • Alfred K. Moir Fund
  • Clinton Morrison and Mary K. Morrison Fund
  • Ellen J. Nelson Fund
  • Arnold and Augusta Newman Fund
  • The Douglas and Mary Olson Frame Acquisition Fund
  • Raymond and Ruth Reister Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Sharon and Bill Richardson Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Patricia Ringer Fund
  • Fred R. Salisbury II Fund
  • The Shared Fund
  • Simmons Family Endowment for Textiles
  • Lotus Stack Textiles Endowment
  • Sweatt Foundation Fund
  • James R. Thorpe Fund
  • Robert C. Winton Fund

FUNDS OF $25,000–$99,999

  • Mr. and Mrs. Lauress V. Ackman Fund
  • Agnes Lynch Anderson and Roger Lewis Anderson Lecture Fund
  • Margaret Boldt Anderson Fund
  • Ruth B. Anderson Memorial Endowment for Asian Art
  • Anonymous Fund
  • Apache Foundation Fund
  • Jo and Gordon Bailey Fund
  • Ford and Amy Bell Endowment Fund for Decorative Arts
  • Bemis Company Foundation Fund
  • Michael Bennes Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Ray and Carol Bergeson Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Sheila and Michael Bonsignore Fund
  • Blythe Brenden Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Bring Art to Life (Under $10,000) Fund
  • M. Boyd and Carol Burton Endowment
  • Barry and Susan Cosens Endowment for Art Excellence
  • Mrs. Thomas M. Crosby, Sr. Fund
  • Dandelion Endowment Fund for Textiles
  • Anne S. Dayton Fund
  • Judy and Kenneth Dayton Fund for the Purcell-Cutts House
  • Confianza de Lin Fan Endowment Fund for Learning Innovation
  • Ann Dietrich Endowed Lecture Fund
  • Irene Donaldson Fund
  • Frances V. Doneghy Fund
  • Esther Donovan Fund
  • Harry M. Drake Fund
  • Sylvia Druy Endowment for Museum Guide Education
  • James and Maureen Duffey Endowment for Prints and Drawings
  • C. Curtis Dunnavan Endowment for Asian Art
  • Endowment Fund for Museum Guide Education
  • Mr. and Mrs. Gerald A. Erickson Fund
  • Rebecca and Ben Field Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Clarence G. Frame Fund
  • G&K Services Fund
  • Norman Gabrick Endowment for African Art
  • Kelly and Geoffrey Gage Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Mr. and Mrs. Theodore S. Gary Fund
  • Bill and Penny George Fund for Education and Community Programs
  • Mr. and Mrs. Bernard M. Granum Fund
  • Bernard and Fern Granum Fund for Art Conservation
  • Irene V. Grayston Fund
  • Sima and Clark Griffith Fund
  • Alpha Gustafson Endowment
  • Lois Hall Fund
  • Josephine O. Hanson Fund
  • Charles M. Harrington Trust Fund
  • Phillip B. Harris Fund
  • Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Hunter III Fund
  • Aref and Barbara Jabr Fund
  • Susan Jacobsen Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Patricia and Benjamin S. Jaffray Fund
  • Mrs. Blair Jenness Fund in Memory of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Lindsay
  • Josephine J. Jensen Fund
  • Alice Johnson Fund
  • Helen Winton Jones Fund
  • Frances E. Jordan Fund
  • Charlotte Karlen Lecture Fund
  • Elizabeth Washburn King Endowment Fund
  • Don and Helen Knutzen Fund
  • Pauline Lambert and Merritt C. Nequette Fund for Museum Guide Education
  • Larey E. Lindberg and Larey Swanson Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • D. Kenneth and Patricia A. Lindgren Fund
  • Emily C. Lineburg Fund
  • Samuel and Patricia McCullough Endowment for American Furniture and Folk Art and Samuel and Patricia McCullough Fund
  • The James and Faeth McGowan Fund
  • Jeffrey C. Meehan Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc. Fund
  • Rudolph Miller Fund
  • Sheila and John Morgan Fund
  • Margaret E. Morris Fund
  • Margaret M. Mull Fund
  • Allen E. Mulligan Endowment
  • Jane and Thomas Nelson Fund
  • John and Shirley Nilsen Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • James and Jo Ann Nordlie Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Mr. and Mrs. Richardson Okie Fund
  • Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Olson Fund (FEFE)
  • Karl Thomas Opem Acquisition Fund
  • Eugene and Virginia Palmer Fund for Prints and Drawings
  • James R. and Jeanette C. Paul Fund for Education
  • Donna Pauley Fund
  • Harold P. Peterson Endowment for Books
  • Piper Family Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation
  • Plautz Family Endowment
  • Russell A. Plimpton Fund
  • Emily L. Pyke Fund
  • Sara Rutz Fund
  • Kevin and Leela Joseph Scattum Endowment
  • Dr. Frances E. Schaar Fund in memory of Leon and Anna Schaar
  • Joan and Arthur Schulze Fund
  • Augustus L. Searle Fund
  • Ruth Mackoff Shapiro Docent Education Fund
  • Dr. Werner and Elizabeth Simon Music Fund
  • John Skogmo and Tom Morin Fund
  • Mary R. Slater Fund in Memory of Wallace and Lillian Reinhardt
  • Harold and Mickey Smith Endowment for Jewish Arts
  • Anne Morrison Snyder Memorial Fund
  • Loring M. Staples, Jr., Fund
  • Mrs. Ruth Bovey Stevens Fund
  • Glenda and Richard Struthers Endowment for Art Acquisition
  • Robert J. Ulrich Fund
  • The Roman and Alice Wagstaff Verostko Educational Fund
  • Barbara Benton Wescoe Fund
  • Weesner Charitable Trust
  • Elsie and Mauritz Westmark Fund
  • Helen and J. Kimball Whitney Fund