· Public charity
Hunger Solutions Minnesota
HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA is a comprehensive hunger relief organization that works to end hunger in minnesota.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAER | $14,969 |
| SECOND HARVEST NORTHERN LAKES FOOD BANK | $14,969 |
| RED WING AREA FOOD SHELF | $10,000 |
| FRONT AND CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER | $10,000 |
| LEECH LAKE BAND OF OJIBWE | $10,000 |
| BEMIDJI COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORS UNITED RESOURCE CENTER - YELLOW MEDICINE | $10,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| WATONWAN COUNTY FOOD SHELF | $10,000 |
| THIEF RIVER FALLS AREA FOOD SHELF | $10,000 |
| BOIS FORTE COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF- NETT LAKE | $10,000 |
| WALKER AREA FOOD SHELF | $10,000 |
| SIBLEY COUNTY FOODSHARE | $10,000 |
| COMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICIO INC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $7.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
261 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 235 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND3× · 2019–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +71%
- FGFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE3× · 2019–2021 · $758k · revenue +10%
- COCHANNEL ONE INC5× · 2019–2023 · $726k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- LSLOWER SIOUX INDIAN COMMUNITYone grant, 2022 · $415k
- MLMILLE LACS BAND OF OJIBWE INDIANSone grant, 2022 · $307k
- NINORTHWEST INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER NWICDCone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +2%
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.
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.
The North Scott Food Pantry provides food for people in need. Clients receive enough food for about one week and are allowed to get food every 28 days. There were 721 visits to our food pantry in 2025.
Provide emergency food for those in need.
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Local food pantry serving those food insecurity.
To assist families and individuals in the Brandon, SD area meet emergency food needs at little or no cost.
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Tc food justice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in minneapolis, mn. since march 2016 we have been working with co-ops, grocery stores, and farmers markets to redistribute their unsellable foods to local hunger relief…
Providing nutritious food to low income families and individuals in south clatsop county
How this is measured
231 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 231 of the 393 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL ONE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Family Pathways ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Northland ↗
- Who funds GOOD IN THE 'HOOD ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
- Who funds Keystone Community Services ↗
- Who funds DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK ↗
- Who funds ARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY COMMUNITY HELP ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER NWICDC ↗
- Who funds 360 Communities ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD ↗
- Who funds WHITE BEAR AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds Valley Outreach ↗
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: Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless · Edina Realty Foundation · Food Group Minnesota Inc The · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Second Harvest Northland · Otto Bremer Trust · Foundation for Essential Needs · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Channel One Inc · Second Harvest North Central Food Bank · Mardag Foundation · North Country Food Bank Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hunger Solutions Minnesota funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hunger Solutions Minnesota. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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