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Arlington House

To help youth in need improve their lives by providing shelter, counseling, education, self-sufficiency, skill building and other services.

$844k
Granted FY2022
11
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $680,183 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $844,065 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $163,882 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $101k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $580k
$37,740
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METRO STATE UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT$230,000
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MN$176,120
HOPE DENTAL$62,900
MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL OF VETERANS$60,523
AUNTIE BEC'S BOUTIQUE$50,000
WILDFLYER COFFEE$37,740
TUBMAN$12,580
THE AMHERST WILDER FOUNDATION$12,580
THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH$12,580
FACE TO FACE HEALTH & COUNSELING SERVICE INC$12,580
THE LINK$12,580
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE LINK: $13k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $13k → 11%FACE TO FACE HEALTH & COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $13k → 14%AUNTIE BEC'S BOUTIQUE: $50k → 14%THE AMHERST WILDER FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Youthlink

To be a community in which all youth, without regard to their living situation, have an equal opportunity to pursue and achieve their goals and dreams. the agency does this by supporting, resourcing, and empowering young people on their…

Human Services
2
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
3
Hope 4 Youth

To provide pathways to end youth homelessness.

Youth Development
4
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

5
Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota

Mentoring partnership of minnesota (mpm) builds and elevates the capacity of programs, systems and policies to strengthen youth mentoring relationships. strategic priorities include: 1. support a statewide mentoring partner network2.…

Employment
6
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

7
Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc

Jackson street youth services provides safe, secure shelter and related services to youth, ages 10 to 24, who are homeless or experiencing a personal or family crisis. the organization operates a 24-hour phone help line, provides emergency…

Housing & Shelter
8
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
9
Ywca Pierce County

Transforming lives through safety, healing and empowerment.

10
Avenues for Youth

The mission of avenues for youth (afy) is to partner with youth experiencing homelessness to achieve their dreams. we do this by providing shelter, short term and transitional housing and supportive services for youth experiencing…

Youth Development
11
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
12
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bridge for Youth and the most unlike its peers is Hope Dental Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $230,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATI…CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA — $176,120 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINN…AUNTIE BEC'S BOUTIQUE — $50,000 · Human ServicesAUNTIE BEC'S BOU…THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $12,580 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FOR Y…Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc — $12,580 · Human ServicesFace to Face Hea…THE LINK — $12,580 · Human ServicesTHE LINKAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $12,580 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER…MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $60,523 · EmploymentMINNESOTA ASSIST…Wildflyer Coffee — $37,740 · EmploymentWildflyer CoffeeHOPE DENTAL CLINIC — $62,900 · OtherHOPE DENTA…TUBMAN — $12,580 · Health
Education$230,000Crime & Legal$176,120Human Services$100,320Employment$98,263Other$62,900Health$12,580

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $230,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA — $176,120 over 1y, 13% of budgetHOPE DENTAL CLINIC — $62,900 over 1y, 12% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $60,523 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWildflyer Coffee — $37,740 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $12,580 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFace to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc — $12,580 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LINK — $12,580 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTUBMAN — $12,580 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $12,580 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hardenbergh FoundationMN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hardenbergh Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Arlington House funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Arlington House?

    Find your warmest path to Arlington House through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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