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.

Hearth Connection

Hearth Connection at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Hearth Connection

Strengthening minnesota's supportive housing community to advance long-term solutions to homelessness.

$12M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.8M

Largest

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$90MPublic Benefit$12k

02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k9 grants · $287k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.8M
$250k+12 grants · $9.9M

$132,516

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$89M · 46 repeat orgs$419k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$89M

$328k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+16%

Still filing today

74%

15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

G
Guild
8× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +18%
A
AVIVO
8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +44%
LS
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA
8× · 2017–2024 · $7.7M · revenue +85%

Funded once

AS
ALLY SUPPORTIVE SERVICE LLC
one grant, 2018 · $71k
TM
TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH
one grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +8%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $22k

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.

Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services

Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.

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Canvas Health Inc

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.

Human Services

Chicago House & Social Service Agency

Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids

Health

Partners for Affordable Housing

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…

—

Cornerstone Montgomery

Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.

—

Jamhi Health & Wellness Inc

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…

Health

Matrix Housing Services

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

—

Centerpointe Inc

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…

Health

Arc Northland

To promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities and their families while supporting inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetime.

—

Community Care

To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.

Human Services

Minnesota Housing Partnership

Minnesota housing partnership (mhp) expands housing and community development opportunity by leading collaborative work to promote systems change and grow develoopment capacity.

—

Mercy House Minneapolis

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Touchstone Mental Health; 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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 74 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/41

Grantees still filing

36/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$42,739,732Human Services$34,316,506Health$6,025,777Housing & Shelter$3,099,403Philanthropy$2,981,865Youth Development$604,705Religion$116,555

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

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 TrustMN49× affinity25 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 · 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

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 Hearth Connection funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hearth Connection. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home