How much does Family Housing Fund give?

Family Housing Fund reported 12 itemized grants totaling $1,028,500, out of $1,264,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Family Housing Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (67%), Crime & Legal (16%), Education (5%).

Who are Family Housing Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Build Wealth MN Inc ($3.7M), Twin Cities Community Land Bank LLC ($2.2M), Minnesota Home Ownership Center ($1.7M).

Does Family Housing Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Family Housing Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The McKnight Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.

Where is Family Housing Fund based?

Family Housing Fund is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

Family Housing Fund

The FAMILY HOUSING FUND ("fund") is a nonprofit intermediary organization whose mission is to help the affordable housing network adapt to the needs of families in complex and constantly changing conditions.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 12
Itemized grants FY2025: 11
Organizations funded FY2024: 9%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.0M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $75,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $204,000
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 36; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $51M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Family Housing Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Community ImprovementHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	12	$1.0M	0%
FY2024	11	$1.7M	9%
FY2023	36	$3.0M	36%
FY2022	28	$3.1M	32%
FY2021	20	$4.8M	10%
FY2020	29	$2.4M	31%
FY2019	23	$1.9M	61%
FY2018	29	$1.4M	72%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$14MCrime & Legal$3.3MEducation$955kCommunity Improvement$943kEnvironment$767kPhilanthropy$439kHuman Services$423kYouth Development$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Build Wealth MN Inc	$3,707,500	6	22%
Twin Cities Community Land Bank LLC	$2,240,000	3	n/a
Minnesota Home Ownership Center	$1,690,200	8	17%
Southern Mn Regional Legal Services Inc	$1,054,000	5	3%
Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance	$937,000	5	1%
Housinglink	$900,000	9	16%
Center for Energy and Environment	$766,500	2	4%
Housing Justice Center	$722,000	6	16%
Brandt Jens Kluge LP	$642,193	1	n/a
Minnesota Housing Finance Agency	$450,000	3	n/a

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All grantees of Family Housing Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Build Wealth MN Inc	$3,707,500	6	22%
Twin Cities Community Land Bank LLC	$2,240,000	3	n/a
Minnesota Home Ownership Center	$1,690,200	8	17%
Southern Mn Regional Legal Services Inc	$1,054,000	5	3%
Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance	$937,000	5	1%
Housinglink	$900,000	9	16%
Center for Energy and Environment	$766,500	2	4%
Housing Justice Center	$722,000	6	16%
Brandt Jens Kluge LP	$642,193	1	n/a
Minnesota Housing Finance Agency	$450,000	3	n/a
University of Minnesota	$384,000	4	n/a
Amherst H Wilder Foundation	$320,000	4	1%
Minnesota Housing Partnership	$314,500	4	6%
Home Line	$305,000	4	9%
Minneapolis Public Housing Authority	$300,000	1	n/a
Dispute Resolution Center	$265,000	5	26%
Conflict Resolution Center	$260,000	4	8%
Community Mediation & Restorative Servic Es Inc	$260,000	5	16%
The Urban Land Institute	$255,000	3	0%
New American Development Cente	$237,000	6	27%
Greater Minnesota Housing Fund	$219,523	4	1%
Hope Community Inc	$216,000	5	2%
Neighborhood Development Alliance Inc	$172,000	4	7%
Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity	$146,672	4	0%
Hearth Connection	$142,000	1	1%
Project for Pride in Living Inc	$141,593	4	0%
Clues Real Estate Holding Company	$136,000	2	44%
City of Bloomington	$135,000	1	n/a
Prepare and Prosper	$134,000	2	4%
Mediation Services For Anoka County	$131,250	4	11%
Neighborhood House	$130,000	2	2%
Volunteer Lawyers Network Ltd	$126,875	4	3%
Agate Housing & Services Inc	$115,352	3	0%
The Rondo Community Land Trust	$115,000	2	3%
Central Minnesota Legal Services	$106,875	3	2%
Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of St Paul	$100,000	1	n/a
360 Communities	$100,000	2	1%
Communidades Latinas Unidas En Servico Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Northcountry Cooperative Foundation	$100,000	1	13%
Tasks Unlimited Inc	$100,000	2	3%
Judicare of Anoka County Inc	$90,000	3	4%
Prg Inc	$87,000	2	4%
Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers	$85,000	2	0%
NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc	$83,162	2	0%
Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless	$82,500	7	3%
Model Cities of St Paul Inc	$80,000	2	3%
Community Neighborhood Housing Services	$72,000	2	2%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North	$70,355	1	0%
Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia- United Renters for Justice	$70,000	1	4%
African Career Education & Resources In	$67,000	3	1%
Model Cities Properties	$60,000	1	9%
Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative	$60,000	1	1%
Jewish Community Action	$60,000	1	10%
Housing in Action Inc	$55,000	2	1%
Red Lake Homeless Shelter Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Daytons Bluff Neighborhood Housing Services Inc	$50,000	1	1%
West Side Citizens Organization	$50,000	1	8%
Youthlink	$50,000	1	1%
Minnesota Zoo	$40,000	1	n/a
Hennepin County	$35,000	1	n/a
Goodwill Industries Inc	$32,551	2	0%
Civic Consulting Minnesota	$30,000	1	n/a
Cleveland Mediation Center	$30,000	1	n/a
Alliance for Metropolitan Stability	$30,000	2	4%
Community Stabilization Project	$30,000	2	n/a
Payne-Phalen Community Council	$25,000	1	10%
District 6 Planning Council	$25,000	1	16%
VEAP Inc	$25,000	1	0%
The Link	$25,000	1	0%
Legal Assistance of Dakota County Ltd	$23,000	1	7%
Frogtown Neighborhood Association	$20,000	1	8%
Pueblos de Lucha y Esperanza Minnesota	$20,000	1	8%
Central Lutheran Church	$14,000	1	n/a
City of Lakes Community Land Trust	$12,000	1	1%
Mni Sota Fund	$12,000	1	3%
Friends of the Hennepin County Library	$12,000	1	0%
Urban League Twin Cities	$12,000	1	1%
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota	$12,000	1	0%
Scott Carver Dakota Cap Agency Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Commonbond Communities	$10,000	1	0%
Greater Twin Cities United Way	$10,000	1	0%
District 2 Community Council	$10,000	1	4%
Minnesota Multi Housing Association	$10,000	1	0%
Avenues for Youth	$10,000	1	0%

Family Housing Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 70.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The McKnight FoundationMN69.3× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McKnight Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Target Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Alliance for Metropolitan Stability · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation

How this is measured

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

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About Family Housing Fund

How much does Family Housing Fund give?: Family Housing Fund reported 12 itemized grants totaling $1,028,500, out of $1,264,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Family Housing Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (67%), Crime & Legal (16%), Education (5%).
Who are Family Housing Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Build Wealth MN Inc ($3.7M), Twin Cities Community Land Bank LLC ($2.2M), Minnesota Home Ownership Center ($1.7M).
Does Family Housing Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Family Housing Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The McKnight Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is Family Housing Fund based?: Family Housing Fund is based in MN.