Minnesota · Public charity
Hearth Connection
Strengthening minnesota's supportive housing community to advance long-term solutions to homelessness.
- $12M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2024
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $132,516
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,765,415
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 61
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Hearth Connection funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 35 | $12M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $11M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $12M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $12M | 3% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $12M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $12M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $10M | 9% |
| FY2017 | 30 | $9.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guild | $16,828,666 | 8 | 15% |
| Avivo | $14,501,486 | 8 | 9% |
| Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota | $7,685,879 | 8 | 1% |
| Amherst H Wilder Foundation | $6,771,189 | 8 | 4% |
| Blue Earth County | $5,435,843 | 8 | n/a |
| People Incorporated | $4,336,434 | 8 | 1% |
| Mental Health Resources Inc | $4,026,818 | 6 | 4% |
| South Central Human Relations Center Inc | $3,616,205 | 8 | 5% |
| Zumbro Valley Health Center Inc | $3,470,879 | 8 | 3% |
| Phia T Xiong & Jeff D Spencer Foundation | $2,981,865 | 3 | 91% |
Show all 57 grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($219k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hearth Connection supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Minneapolis Foundation · Ucare Foundation · Medica Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Northland Foundation · Second Harvest Northland
How this is measured
About Hearth Connection
- How much does Hearth Connection give?
- Hearth Connection reported 35 grants totaling $11,969,520 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 61 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Hearth Connection fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (100%), Public Benefit (0%).
- Who are Hearth Connection's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Guild ($17M), Avivo ($15M), Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota ($7.7M).
- Does Hearth Connection fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hearth Connection?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Edina Realty Foundation.
- Where is Hearth Connection based?
- Hearth Connection is based in MN.
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