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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 FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$204k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$14MCrime & Legal$3.3MEducation$955kCommunity Improvement$943kEnvironment$767kPhilanthropy$439kHuman Services$423kYouth Development$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $1,028,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,264,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $236,250 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $72k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $950k
$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSING JUSTICE CENTER$204,000
MINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP$182,500
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTACURA$150,000
HOUSINGLINK$148,000
METRO CONSORTIUM OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS$80,000
PRG INC$75,000
HOME LINE$60,000
GREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND$50,000
PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING$35,000
NEW AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER$20,000
CENTER FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT$16,500
MINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $957k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Scott-Carver-Dakota CAP Agency Inc: $10k → 5%PREPARE PROSPER: $80k → 14%MN COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $20k → 14%Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless: $15k → 14%MINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 14%MN COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 14%MN COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 14%MN COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 14%MINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $8k → 14%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $70k → 11%THE LINK: $25k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $52k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $35k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $35k → 11%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $12k → 14%Project for Pride in Living Inc: $20k → 11%AMHERST WILDER FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%MODEL CITIES: $70k → 14%AMHERST WILDER FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%AMHERST WILDER FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%Model Cities: $10k → 14%PREPARE AND PROSPER: $54k → 11%ASAMBLEA DE DERECHOS CIVILES: $20k → 11%Urban League Twin Cities: $12k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $50k → 11%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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 45 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
39

Total granted

$18M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+48%

Still filing today

89%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BW
    Build Wealth MN Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +446%
  • SM
    SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +73%
  • ML
    MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE
    5× · 2018–2022 · $937k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • BJ
    Brandt Jens Kluge LP
    one grant, 2023 · $642k
  • MP
    MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2017 · $300k
  • HC
    HEARTH CONNECTION
    one grant, 2024 · $142k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Foundation Inc
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2
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.

Community Improvement
3
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
4
Two Rivers Community Land Trust

To provide permanently affordable housing alternatives for low and moderate income individuals, families, and households earning up to 80% of median income in washington county, minnesota.

Housing & Shelter
5
Minnesota Community Land Trust Coalition

To promote, facilitate and expand the community land trust sector in minnesota by supporting its members to provide permanently affordable homeownership for people with low and moderate incomes.

Housing & Shelter
6
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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7
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
8
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
9
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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10
Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

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11
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
12
Matrix Housing Services

The mission of matrix housing services is to deliver high-quality programs and well rounded services for people experiencing homelessness.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Neighborhood Housing Services and the most unlike its peers is Civic Consulting Minnesota. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Residential CarePublic Charter SchoolsEarly Childhood Education C…Youth Sports LeaguesEthnic Community CentersFraternal Organizations & A…Affordable Housing Developm…Community Foundations & Fun…Disability Services & Emplo…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr15%40%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr19%37%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr13%6%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/85
the rest of the field
14%
1,903/13,180

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 85 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/73
Grantees still filing
62/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TWIN CITIES COMMUNITY LAND BANK LLC — $2,240,000 · OtherTWIN CITIES COMMUNITY LAND BANK LLCMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE — $937,000 · OtherMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCEBrandt Jens Kluge LP — $642,193 · OtherBrandt Jens Kluge LPMinnesota Housing Finance Agency — $450,000 · OtherMinnesota Housing Finance AgencyUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $384,000 · OtherMINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP — $314,500 · OtherMINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY — $300,000 · OtherSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $429,215 · OtherSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION+26 more — $1,638,487 · Other+26 moreMINNESOTA HOME OWNERSHIP CENTER — $1,690,200 · Housing & ShelterMINNESOTA HOME OWNERSHIP C…HOUSINGLINK — $900,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSINGLINKHOUSING JUSTICE CENTER — $722,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING JUSTICE CENTERHOME LINE — $305,000 · Housing & ShelterHOME LINEGREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND — $219,523 · Housing & ShelterHOPE COMMUNITY INC — $216,000 · Housing & Shelter+10 more — $763,000 · Housing & Shelter+10 moreBuild Wealth MN Inc — $3,707,500 · EducationBuild Wealth MN IncNew American Development Cente — $237,000 · EducationNew American Developm…+1 more — $67,000 · EducationSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC — $1,054,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN M…DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER — $265,000 · Crime & LegalDISPUTE RE…Conflict Resolution Center — $260,000 · Crime & LegalConflict R…COMMUNITY MEDIATION & RESTORATIVE SERVIC ES INC — $260,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY …Mediation Services For Anoka County — $131,250 · Crime & LegalMediation …+1 more — $23,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT — $766,500 · EnvironmentTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE — $255,000 · EnvironmentAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $320,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $141,593 · Human ServicesPrepare and Prosper — $134,000 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $82,500 · Human ServicesMODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $70,355 · Human ServicesYOUTHLINK — $50,000 · Human Services+5 more — $79,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC — $172,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $130,000 · Community Improvement360 Communities — $100,000 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLITAN CONSORTIUM OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS — $85,000 · Community ImprovementBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE — $60,000 · Community ImprovementWEST SIDE CITIZENS ORGANIZATION — $50,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY — $30,000 · Community ImprovementDISTRICT 6 PLANNING COUNCIL — $25,000 · Community ImprovementPAYNE-PHALEN COMMUNITY COUNCIL — $25,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $42,000 · Community Improvement
Other$7,335,395Housing & Shelter$4,815,723Education$4,011,500Crime & Legal$1,993,250Environment$1,021,500Human Services$957,448Community Improvement$719,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBuild Wealth MN Inc — $3,707,500 over 6y, 22% of budgetMINNESOTA HOME OWNERSHIP CENTER — $1,690,200 over 8y, 17% of budgetSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC — $1,054,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE — $937,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetHOUSINGLINK — $900,000 over 9y, 16% of budgetCENTER FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT — $766,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetHOUSING JUSTICE CENTER — $722,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $429,215 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $320,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP — $314,500 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetHOME LINE — $305,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetDISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER — $265,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetConflict Resolution Center — $260,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEDIATION & RESTORATIVE SERVIC ES INC — $260,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE — $255,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew American Development Cente — $237,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetGREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND — $219,523 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY INC — $216,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC — $172,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $146,672 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHEARTH CONNECTION — $142,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $141,593 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCLUES REAL ESTATE HOLDING COMPANY — $136,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetPrepare and Prosper — $134,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetMediation Services For Anoka County — $131,250 over 4y, 11% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $130,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD — $126,875 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC — $115,352 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RONDO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $115,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCENTRAL MINNESOTA LEGAL SERVICES — $106,875 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHCOUNTRY COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTasks Unlimited Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCOMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget360 Communities — $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJUDICARE OF ANOKA COUNTY INC — $90,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetPRG INC — $87,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN CONSORTIUM OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS — $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc — $83,162 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $82,500 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetMODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC — $80,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES — $72,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $70,355 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE — $70,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN — $67,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMODEL CITIES PROPERTIES — $60,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE — $60,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION — $60,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHOUSING IN ACTION INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.6% 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.

The McKnight Foundati…Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Target FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…The Minneapolis Found…Greater Twin Cities U…Fr Bigelow FoundationHeadwaters Foundation…Alliance for Metropol…Mightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…
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

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 Family Housing Fund 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 85 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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