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America's School Trust Library
Architectural plan view of the Counting House — a banking-hall interior with a teller counter, ledger desks behind it, and a small vault recess at the rear. Hand-drafted in oxidized navy ink on parchment.

Minnesota financial profile

2-Section Cohort (cohort 4) · Distributed (no unified board)

Substrate v1.3 · Last reviewed 2026-05-01 · Read the state dossier

Permanent fund corpus

$2,300,000,000 Verified

As of 2025-12-31

Most recent distribution

$60,000,000 Verified

Federal grant acreage

2,874,951 acres Verified

Transparency status

Corpus and distribution disclosed

Both the permanent fund corpus and the most recent distribution figure are present in the substrate.

Governance form

Classification: Distributed (no unified board)

DNR Commissioner manages day-to-day; Executive Council (Governor, Lt. Gov., Sec. of State, State Auditor, Attorney General) approves certain transactions; School Trust Lands Director (independent statutory advocate per Minn. Stat. § 127A.353)

Time-series chart of the Minnesota Permanent School Fund market value, reported at $2.1 billion as of June 30, 2024.
Minnesota Permanent School Fund market value over time, with a five-year time-weighted net-of-fees return of 7.7%. Source: Advocates for School Trust Lands , Minnesota School Trust Lands and Fund (Tonia Day, FY 2024). Reproduced for the library by permission.

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