· Public charity
Hearth Connection
Strengthening minnesota's supportive housing community to advance long-term solutions to homelessness.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $287k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+12 grants · $9.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUILD INCORPORATED | $1,765,415 |
| RESOURCE INC (AVIVO) | $1,682,544 |
| PHIA T XIONG & JEFF D SPENCER FOUNDATION | $1,127,016 |
| AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION | $976,976 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA | $818,873 |
| PEOPLE INCORPORATED | $784,369 |
| BLUE EARTH COUNTY | $739,741 |
| HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $529,828 |
| ZUMBRO VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC | $430,663 |
| SOUTH CENTRAL HUMAN RELATIONS CENTER INC | $409,954 |
| BREAKING FREE | $356,590 |
| NORTHLAND COUNSELING | $253,419 |
| MESH | $229,068 |
| YOUTHLINK | $210,387 |
| ARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY (AEOA) | $197,507 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $34.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GGuild8× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +18%
- AAVIVO8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +44%
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA8× · 2017–2024 · $7.7M · revenue +78%
Funded once
- ASALLY SUPPORTIVE SERVICE LLCone grant, 2018 · $71k
- TMTOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +8%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $22k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of matrix housing services is to deliver high-quality programs and well rounded services for people experiencing homelessness.
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
Partners for Affordable Housing is missioned to provide shelter for homeless families and individuals and help them secure economically viable long term housing. The Organization owns and operates a number of scattered site housing…
Radias health is a non-profit mental health & substance use disorders services organization customizing community based services through the integration of knowledge, compassion, and collaboration. we are committed to being an inclusive,…
Minnesota housing partnership (mhp) expands housing and community development opportunity by leading collaborative work to promote systems change and grow develoopment capacity.
To be a recognized leader in community mental health, respected for our clinical quality, innovation, and adaptation to a rapidly changing health care and social services environment.
To promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities and their families while supporting inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetime.
Our mission is to help the people we serve get better, sooner, for longer. centerpointe serves some of the most vulnerable in our communities who have co-occuring mental and physical health diagnoses, and who are experiencing or at risk of…
Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids
We provide a comprehensive, co occurring disorder-capable, community behavioral health center. we provide quality care using best practices designed to promote health, wellness, self-determination, and recovery. the service area is the…
We promote independence and an enhanced quality of life for adults with serious mental illness.
Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Touchstone Mental Health and the most unlike its peers is Phia T Xiong & Jeff D Spencer Foundation. 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
41 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. 41 of the 74 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Guild ↗
- Who funds AVIVO ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL HUMAN RELATIONS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ZUMBRO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PHIA T XIONG & JEFF D SPENCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
- Who funds Northland Counseling Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKES & PINES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Breaking Free Inc ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ENGAGEMENT ON SHELTER AND HOUSING ↗
- Who funds ARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CENTER CITY HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds New Pathways Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MINNESOTA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RANGE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CLARE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds RANGE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
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.
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
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 Hearth Connection 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.
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.