St. Paul Public Schools will receive $78,000 from a charitable foundation to put toward a college-and-career support system for high school students.

That’s one of the 156 grants awarded by the Otto Bremer Trust, which is issuing $10.2 million to social service and charitable organizations across Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin. Roughly $1.5 million will go to groups in the Twin Cities east metro. The St. Paul-based trust is both a charitable foundation and the majority owner of Bremer Bank.

St. Paul-based grant recipients receiving roughly $100,000 to $200,000 include Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota, the Children’s Defense Fund, the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, West Side Community Health Services/Minnesota Community Care, Nexus Community Partners and the Jewish Family Service of St. Paul.

Organizations receiving $45,000 to $75,000 include Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities, the Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative, the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, the Hamm Memorial Psychiatric Clinic, St. Paul Youth Services and Small Sums, a nonprofit that works with the homeless.

Recipients of $10,000 to $20,000 grants include the Como Park Living at Home Block Nurse program, Exodus Financial Services and its efforts against predatory payday loans, and the JK Movement, which works with students.

In western Wisconsin, Otto Bremer Trust issued $872,000 in grants. The top three recipients include $100,000 to the Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire for a new hybrid operating suite, $100,000 to St. Joseph’s Memorial Foundation southeast of La Crosse, and $100,000 to the Bar River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians to create a new Head Start facility.