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Greater Minnesota Housing Fund

Please see schedule o.founded in 1996 by the mcknight foundation and blandin foundation, GREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND (gmhf) is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit, certified community development financial institution (cdfi) with the mission of supporting the creation of strong communities and affordable homes by making strategic investments and…

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$375k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$6.1MCommunity Improvement$935kYouth Development$344kHuman Services$334kPhilanthropy$320kHealth$93kRecreation & Sports$90kEnvironment$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $1,871,366, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,911,817 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,451 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $410k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $375k
$45,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$303M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSING JUSTICE CENTER$375,000
ENGAGE WINONA$187,500
AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION$187,500
MINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP$155,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
WATCHMEN PROPERTIES$50,000
LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$50,000
MINNESOTA HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER$50,000
RED LAKE SUPPORTIVE HOUSING 2$50,000
LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES$50,000
HIDALGO INVESTMENTS$50,000
FACE TO FACE HEALTH AND COUNSELING$50,000
STEPS OF STRATEGY$50,000
NICHOLAS CAPITAL & WENRICH PROPERTY$50,000
DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $838k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES: $50k → 14%MINNESOTA COALITION -GRANT -HHMFC: $86k → 14%DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $50k → 15%DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $50k → 15%FAMILY RISE TOGETHER: $50k → 15%THE LINK: $64k → 11%MINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $25k → 14%PRIDE FOR PROJECT IN LIVING INC: $35k → 11%MINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $15k → 14%MINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $13k → 14%ASHLEY DUBOSE ENTERTAINMENT: $20k → 11%STEPS OF STRATEGY: $50k → 11%MINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $88k → 14%MINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $25k → 14%MINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $25k → 14%FACE TO FACE HEALTH AND COUNSELING: $50k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%CLARE HOUSING: $27k → 11%MINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
UT
KS
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 28 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
45

Total granted

$6.0M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+48%

Still filing today

75%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $833k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HJ
    HOUSING JUSTICE CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +167% · 52% of their budget
  • MH
    MINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP
    7× · 2018–2024 · $504k · revenue +55%
  • EW
    Engage Winona
    3× · 2022–2024 · $452k · revenue +104% · 76% of their budget

Funded once

  • CC
    CENTER CITY HOUSING CORPgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +110%
  • PF
    POHLAD FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue -78%
  • TL
    THE LINKgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $64k · revenue +41%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
North West Housing Partnership

Through a fiscally responsible and multi-faceted approach, north west housing partnership nwhp promotes public and private partnerships that create and preserve cost-effective quality diverse housing for low to moderate-income residents…

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3
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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4
Western Lake Superior Habitat for Humanity

Provide home ownership opportunities to low-income households and make repairs to existing homes for very low-income homeowners.

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5
Community Housing Council
Housing & Shelter
6
Chn Housing Partners

Chn's mission is to leverage the power of affordable housing to improve lives and communities.

Housing & Shelter
7
Housing Plus

Innovatively utilize resources to preserve & create quality affordable multi-family housing committed to fulfilling individual housing needs and stabilize neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
8
Partnership Housing Inc

Partnership housing, inc. brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
9
Housing Connector

Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.

Housing & Shelter
10
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
11
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
12
East Central Minnesota Habitat for Humanity Inc

Bringing people together to build homes, communities and hope. building homes for the underprivileged.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership; the most unlike its peers is Pohlad Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 93 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
36/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Minnesota Housing Finance Agency: $1,232,700 · OtherMinnesota Housing Finance AgencyMINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $504,261 · OtherMINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP+54 more: $1,646,538 · Other+54 moreHOUSING JUSTICE CENTER: $1,138,500 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING JUSTICE CENTERHOME LINE: $410,000 · Housing & ShelterHOME LINEMINNESOTA HOME OWNERSHIP CENTER: $284,300 · Housing & ShelterMINNESOTA HOME OWNERSHIP CENTERCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSINGAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION: $187,500 · Housing & ShelterAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGA…NORTHCOUNTRY COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION: $145,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND: $107,750 · Housing & Shelter+10 more: $315,252 · Housing & Shelter+10 moreMINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $301,750 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA C…DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesDIVINE KONN…AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Human ServicesAMHERST H W…THE LINK: $64,200 · Human ServicesTHE LINKLEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesLEECH LAKE …FATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS RIS…Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesFace to Fac…STEPS OF STRATEGY: $50,000 · Human ServicesSTEPS OF ST…PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $35,000 · Human Services+1 more: $26,900 · Human ServicesEngage Winona: $451,500 · Community ImprovementBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $95,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $220,000 · PhilanthropyROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyPOHLAD FAMILY FOUNDATION: $65,000 · PhilanthropyPROPEL NONPROFITS: $30,000 · PhilanthropyLIFE HOUSE INC: $179,866 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT RESTORE MINNESOTA: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE: $75,000 · Environment
Other$3,383,499Housing & Shelter$2,838,302Human Services$837,850Community Improvement$556,500Philanthropy$465,000Youth Development$229,866Environment$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOUSING JUSTICE CENTER: $1,138,500 over 8y, 52% of budgetMINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $504,261 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetEngage Winona: $451,500 over 3y, 76% of budgetHOME LINE: $410,000 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetMINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $301,750 over 7y, 18% of budgetMINNESOTA HOME OWNERSHIP CENTER: $284,300 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $250,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $220,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION: $187,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetLIFE HOUSE INC: $179,866 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHCOUNTRY COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetDIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $120,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetGREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND: $107,750 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER CITY HOUSING CORP: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $95,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetALL PARKS ALLIANCE FOR CHANGE: $90,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSINGLINK: $85,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetNATIONAL ASSN OF HOUSING & REDEVELOPMENT MINNESOTA CHAPTER OF NAHRO: $77,997 over 2y, 29% of budgetTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOHLAD FAMILY FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LINK: $64,200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY HOUSING FUND: $55,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBuild Wealth MN Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCLOSEKNIT: $50,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetFATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetFace to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTEPS OF STRATEGY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHEARTH CONNECTION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROPEL NONPROFITS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCONTINUUM CARE CENTER: $29,753 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetTHREE RIVERS COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $28,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHSOURCE: $28,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLARE HOUSING: $26,900 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMINNESOTA ENGAGEMENT ON SHELTER AND HOUSING: $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetNEW AFRICA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Hospital Association: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST MINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $10,252 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoreal Development: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTHE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLAND LAKES DEVELOPMENT COMMISS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTRAL MINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROWNTON HOUSING CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…The McKnight Foundati…The Minneapolis Found…Target FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…Greater Twin Cities U…Family Housing FundMardag FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationMedica FoundationHeadwaters Foundation…
Otto Bremer TrustMN45.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Target Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Family Housing Fund · Mardag Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Medica Foundation · Headwaters Foundation for Justice

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Greater Minnesota Housing Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Minnesota Housing Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • The Housing Partnership Network Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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