The Sauer Family Foundation provides funding to strengthen the well-being of children so they thrive in their families and communities.
Donor Name: Sauer Family Foundation
State: Minnesota
County: Anoka County (MN), Carver County (MN), Dakota County (MN), Hennepin County (MN), Ramsey County (MN), Scott County (MN), Washington County (MN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/26/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Foundation works in settings that serve children who are at risk or experiencing abuse or neglect, exposed to toxic stress or trauma, or facing challenges in developing reading, writing, and math skills. These settings include schools and early childhood programs, nonprofit and research organizations, government agencies, collaboratives, and networks.
Funding Priorities
- Building Strong Family Relationships: Prevention and Intervention in Child Welfare
- Supporting children and families with a whole family approach network of community-based initiatives towards preventing child abuse and neglect.
- Keeping children safe at home through parent support and family treatment services. When this is not possible, building connections through family-finding and natural support towards achieving relational permanence.
- Meeting the social emotional needs of foster children & youth and decreasing time to permanency, interrupting the exit to homeless youth services.
- Increasing public awareness of the foster care experience through the elevation of experienced and informed foster youth voice.
- Building Supportive Environments that Promote Emotional Safety for Children & Youth
- Programs for preK-12 schools that promote the emotional safety of children and youth.
- School-based small group interventions for children facing shared adverse experiences, e.g.; grief, separation from caregiver.
- Programs that offer children and families tools to talk about emotional and mental health.
- Professional development in trauma-responsive practices for professionals working with children; including resiliency to secondary trauma.
- Building Educational Success for Children: Literacy Skills and Specific Learning Disabilities in Reading PreK – 12th Grade
- Expansion of structured literacy and interventions based on the Science of Reading.
- Adoption of assessments that are indicated for learning disability screening and identification.
- Expansion of the accessibility and affordability of learning disability assessments and interventions.
- Building a Workforce that Reflects the Diversity of Minnesota’s Children: Racially Equitable Career Pathways in the Funding Areas
- As the Sauer Family Foundation approaches its planned sunset in 2028, they will continue to partner with current grantees on this important work.
- To ensure substantial investment in what has shown successful outcomes in this funding area, they will no longer accept unsolicited inquiries or applications for Diverse Workforce funding.
Criteria
The Sauer Family Foundation provides funding in the state of Minnesota, with priority given to the seven-county metro area.
For more information, visit Sauer Family Foundation.
