Unions, law firms, development interests and sports teams supplied most of the funding for Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges' inaugural party in January.
The donations were posted online by the Internal Revenue Service in May, despite promises from the campaign that the list of donors would be released following the event. A poster containing the logos of top donors was posted at the event, however.
A shorter list of donors, who contributed in 2013, was posted in March. A campaign representative said that part of the delay could be attributed to the time spent actually collecting donations from organizations who had made commitments.
Between the two donor lists, about $151,000 was raised for the "One Minneapolis Inaugural" in northeast Minneapolis, which cost nothing to attend and featured food from local restaurants, live music from artist Chastity Brown and other performances.
The top donor was Target Corp., which gave $10,000.
Seventeen donors contributed $5,000. They included the Minnesota Vikings, the Minnesota Twins, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Xcel Energy, Opus Group (a developer), AEG Management, Doran Construction Co., Mortenson Construction and Meet Minneapolis.
Several major donors have business before the city. Among the most unusual of those is a $2,500 donation from California-based Lyft Inc., a transportation service that is seeking to be regulated differently from taxis.
Xcel Energy is negotiating a new franchise agreement that expires at the end of this year. AEG and the Timberwolves are working with the city on a joint project to overhaul the city-owned Target Center.
