The Minneapolis-based Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation has announced sixty-five grants totaling $21.3 million to nonprofits working in its focus areas of education, human services, and health and medicine.

In the area of education, thirty-three grants totaling $17.8 million were awarded in support of high-performing institutions; scholarships, tuition assistance, and capacity building; afterschool programs and camps; mentoring and tutoring programs; and student entrepreneurship. The foundation also awarded twenty-three grants totaling $1.2 million to human services organizations working to provide family services programming, job training, emergency services assistance, and food and temporary housing or shelter.

In addition, nine grants totaling $2.4 million were awarded in the area of health in support of services for individuals facing serious health crises, quality-of-life programming, education and outreach, transforming traditional hospital facilities for children, support for a state-of-the-art neuro-intensive care unit, and a program to improve the health of people with disabilities.

Established by Best Buy founder Dick Schulze, the foundation focuses its grantmaking on nonprofits serving working families in Minnesota and Florida.