Mankato Clinic Foundation
Our mission is to encourage and support the health and well-being of our community through initiatives that promote and improve community wellness. We invest in the Greater Mankato region and surrounding towns of Blue Earth and Nicollet counties.
Community Grants
If you are an area nonprofit organization in need of funding for a program or initiative that promotes health and wellness in our communities, please use the button above. We have partnered with the Mankato Area Foundation for grant applications. If you already have an account, you may log in. Others will need to create an account.
Questions: Contact Marie Wood at mariew@mankatoclinic.com or 507-389-8716.
| Due Date | Disbursement |
|---|---|
| March 1 | Mid-April |
| June 1 | Mid-July |
| September 1 | Mid-October |
| December 1 | Mid-January |
J. Scott Sanders, MD, Scholarship
The J. Scott Sander, M.D., Memorial Scholarship is open to Greater Mankato high school seniors.
Giving back to the community is part of the fabric that makes Mankato Clinic what it is.
A small, dedicated group of physicians started the Mankato Clinic Foundation in 1965, making it one of the oldest foundations in Minnesota. Since that time, the Foundation has expanded its reach by supporting health-related initiatives and programs that address the social determinants of health.
The foundation receives the majority of its funding from Mankato Clinic physicians, along with giving by Mankato Clinic staff and the greater Mankato community.
Building a Thriving Community:
- Community grant program—provides funds to local non-profit organizations with programs focused on health and wellness.
- Concussion management program—With Orthopaedic and Fracture Clinice, we provide concussion testing to school and community athletic programs to safely determine when athletes can return to play.
- First Steps—a community initiative that links new or expecting parents to free or low-cost services and resources. Click here for more information.
- Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota—Mankato Clinic Tree of Forts Climber
Friends of Learning
Dig N’ Pink
Ways to Give
If you would like to help build a healthier tomorrow for our greater Mankato communities, you can give to the Mankato Clinic Foundation in a variety of ways:
- Annual Mankato Clinic Foundation Golf Tournament
- Checks and memorials
- Property, securities, and other appreciated assets
- Bequests or testamentary trusts
- Charitable gift annuities with a return for the remainder of the donor’s life
- Unitrusts, charitable remainder trusts
- Life insurance designations
Donations can be mailed to:
Mankato Clinic Foundation
ATTN: Marie Wood
1400 Madison Avenue, Suite 324B
Mankato, MN 56001
To learn more, call the Foundation office at 507-389-8716.
In the last 10 years, Mankato Clinic Foundation has awarded more than $3 million in grants.
Funding went to the following organizations in 2025:
- Aging Services for Communities
- American Red Cross
- Blue Earth County Library
- B The Light
- CADA
- Connections Ministry Shelter
- Camp Sweet Life Adventures
- Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota
- COPAL
- Feeding Our Communities Partners
- Five Sparrows Foster Closet
- Friends of Learning
- Good Counsel Learning Center
- Greater Mankato Area United Way
- Greater Minnesota Trauma Center
- Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER)
- House of Hope
- Junior Achievement of Greater Mankato
- Lasting Imprint
- Loyola Catholic School
- Lake Crystal Area Recreation Center
- Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial Elementary School
- Life-Work Planning Center
- Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota
- Mankato Area Zero Waste
- Mankato Family YMCA
- Mankato Youth (MY) Place
- Mapleton Economic Development Authority
- Midwest Autism Center
- MN Brain Injury Force
- MRCI Worksource
- St. Peter Recreation Department
- St. Peter North Elementary
- South Central MN Food Recovery
- Wellcome Manor Family Services
Mankato Clinic Foundation is also a long-term supporter of:
- Educare Foundation
- Jonathan Zierdt Cancer Fund
- Mankato North Mankato Youth Football: Helmets
- South Central College Foundation: Scholarships for students entering health care
- WellShare International Community Health Workers