Beneficiaries

Every year each contestant chooses which cause to support. Funds raised have gone to support the following causes & charities:

  • #LIVIN Foundation

  • 1 Million 4 Anna Foundation

  • A Breath of Hope Lung Foundation

  • ALS Foundation MN/ND/SD Chapter

  • Alzheimer Research Center Mayo Clinic

  • Alzheimer’s Foundation of America

  • American Cancer Society

  • American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

  • Andy's Angels

  • Angel Foundation

  • Animal House Jamaica

  • Arrive Ministries

  • Autism Society of Minnesota

  • Backing Blue Line

  • Bags of Smiles

  • Be the Match

  • Black Girls CODE

  • BLIND, Inc.

  • Camp Kesem

  • Camp Needlepoint

  • Children’s Cancer Research Fund of MN

  • City of Waconia Inclusive Playground

  • Clara Lionel Foundation

  • Clean Water Fund

  • Crescent Cove

  • Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation

  • CROSS Services

  • Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

  • Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption

  • Emerge Mothers Academy

  • Emily Klopotek Angel Foundation

  • End the Backlog

  • Environment Minnesota

  • Eric Applen Fund

  • Erie City Mission

  • Every Third Saturday

  • Feed My Starving Children

  • Fibromyalgia Coalition International

  • Foundation for Learning and Youth Travel Education (FLYTE)

  • Free99 Fridge

  • Freedom Farm

  • Friends of Animal Adoption

  • Galapagos Conservation Trust

  • Gillette Childrens Hospital

  • Girlstart

  • Give Kids the World Village

  • Greater Twin Cities United Way

  • Hearing Heart Missions

  • Heroes for Hope

  • Holly Scanlan Foundation

  • Hope for Opelousas

  • Hope Kids

  • Inadcure Foundation

  • Indy

  • Interfaith Outreach

  • Johns Hopkins Lymes Disease Research Center

  • Joshua Center

  • Jouberts Syndrome and Related Disorders Foundation

  • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

  • Kids in Need Foundation

 

  • Knox-Whitley Animal Shelter

  • Lewy Body Dementia Association

  • Light of Life Foundation

  • Literacy Minnesota

  • Live Like Lou

  • Love Does

  • Lungstrong

  • Malala Foundation

  • Malaria Consortium

  • Martin Richard Foundation

  • Mayo Clinic’s Alzheimer Disease Research Center

  • Metavivor

  • Michelle’s Place

  • Minneapolis Foundation

  • Minnesota Armed Forces Service Center

  • Minnesota Breast Cancer Coalition

  • Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women

  • Minnesota Milk Bank for Babies

  • Minnesota Prostate Cancer Coalition

  • Minnesota Teen/Youth Challenge

  • Minnesota Vikings Foundation

  • Minnesotans for Safe Driving

  • Mission 21

  • Moms Across America

  • Moravian Ministries Foundation

  • MORE School for Empowerment

  • Multiple Sclerosis Foundation - Midwest

  • NAACP

  • NAMi - Minnesota

  • National Ataxia Foundation

  • National Fibromyalgia Association

  • Open Doors for Youth

  • Operation Hope

  • OutFront Minnesota

  • Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

  • Pay It Forward Fund

  • Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation

  • Prevent Child Abuse America

  • Prevent Child Abuse North Dakota

  • Project 147

  • Project New Hope

  • Project Pearls

  • Quatrefoil

  • Rainbow Health Initiative

  • Route 91 Strong

  • Save-a-Bull Rescue

  • Save the Children

  • Second Harvest Heartland

  • Secondhand Hounds

  • Star Studio

  • Sunday Burquest

  • The Bridge for Youth

  • The Link

  • The Sheridan Story

  • Thurgood Marshall College Fund

  • To The Bridge Foundation

  • Trevor Project

  • Wake the Nation

  • Wiggle Your Toes

  • Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand

  • Wishes & More

  • Wounded Warrior Project

  • Young Inventor Challenge