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Hunger Solutions Minnesota

HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA is a comprehensive hunger relief organization that works to end hunger in minnesota.

$7.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
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.

Food & Nutrition$29MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.9MHuman Services$2.3MHousing & Shelter$1.5MCivil Rights$1.1MArts & Culture$1.0MReligion$715kCommunity Improvement$280kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $254,001, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,939,021 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,685,020 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 $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $220k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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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.

area typical 8%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $41k → 6%NEIGHBORS INC: $97k → 6%BIG LAKE COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $49k → 6%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $106k → 5%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $127k → 7%SEMCAC: $57k → 8%CAP AGENCY FOOD SHELF-SHAKOPEE: $51k → 5%ICA FOOD SHELF: $73k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES-ST CLOUD: $85k → 11%SCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC: $50k → 5%VALLEY OUTREACH: $112k → 6%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER: $140k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES EMERGENCY SERVICES FOOD SHELF: $80k → 11%VALLEY OUTREACH: $58k → 6%CAER: $55k → 6%CAER FOOD SHELF COMMUNITY AID: $51k → 6%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $47k → 7%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHFIELD: $77k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHFIE: $62k → 11%LIFEGATE SERVICES: $44k → 9%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $263k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK HORIZONS: $105k → 11%BETHLEHEM URBAN INITIATIVES: $81k → 11%INVOLVE MN: $85k → 6%HOPE FOR THE COMMUNITY: $200k → 7%HOPE FOR THE COMMUNITY: $100k → 7%HOPE FOR THE COMMUNITY: $64k → 7%HOPE FOR THE COMMUNITY: $47k → 7%HOPE FOR THE COMMUNITY(KC): $46k → 7%INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOC: $46k → 11%ANOKA COUNTY BROTHERHOOD COUNCIL INC: $64k → 7%FFEN (FOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS): $346k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS: $205k → 11%CEAP: $62k → 11%SOMALI COMMUNITY RESETTLEMENT SERVI: $77k → 11%CEAP - BROOKLYN PARK: $49k → 11%CEAP - BROOKLYN CENTER: $43k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICES-MPLS: $128k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $119k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $45k → 11%OPEN ARMS: $40k → 11%PRISM: $49k → 11%EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $79k → 11%HIGH RISE MOBILE FOOD SHELF: $60k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: $47k → 11%EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $53k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $161k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MN: $45k → 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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36M · 261 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

261
132

Total granted

$36M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+34%

Still filing today

68%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHealthReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    3× · 2019–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +71%
  • FG
    FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $758k · revenue +10%
  • CO
    CHANNEL ONE INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $726k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • LS
    LOWER SIOUX INDIAN COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2022 · $415k
  • ML
    MILLE LACS BAND OF OJIBWE INDIANS
    one grant, 2022 · $307k
  • NI
    NORTHWEST INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER NWICDC
    one 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.

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
Loaves and Fishes Food Shelf
Food & Nutrition
2
North Scott Food Pantry

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.

Food & Nutrition
3
St Croix Food Shelf
Food & Nutrition
4
Medina County Food Pantry

Provide emergency food for those in need.

Human Services
5
Cumby Food Pantry

food pantry

Food & Nutrition
6
3G Food Pantry

Local food pantry serving those food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
7
Brandon Area Food Pantry

To assist families and individuals in the Brandon, SD area meet emergency food needs at little or no cost.

Food & Nutrition
8
Prairie Ridge Food Pantry

tohelpfightfoodinsecurity.wereviveandgivedonatedfooditemstothoselessfortunate.

Food & Nutrition
9
Tc Food Justice

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Adams County Food Pantry
Food & Nutrition
11
Hokah Area Food Shelf
Food & Nutrition
12
South County Community Food Bank

Providing nutritious food to low income families and individuals in south clatsop county

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcleod County Emergency Food Shelf; the most unlike its peers is A Place for Hope. 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

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.

18
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
86
Early backer (in before they grew)
229/231
Grantees still filing
182/231
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $791,373 · OtherBOIS FORTE BAND OF CHIPPEWA: $521,445 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $521,132 · OtherUPPER SIOUX COMMUNITY: $498,065 · Other+89 more: $12,592,504 · Other+89 moreHUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA: $6,018,681 · Food & NutritionHUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTASECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $1,230,525 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLANDFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $757,533 · Food & NutritionFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THECHANNEL ONE INC: $725,583 · Food & NutritionCHANNEL ONE INCTHE OPEN DOOR: $547,808 · Food & Nutrition+37 more: $2,708,181 · Food & Nutrition+37 moreFOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS: $551,185 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR ESSENTI…HOPE FOR THE COMMUNITY: $471,260 · Human ServicesHOPE FOR THE COMMUNITYFamily Pathways: $454,000 · Human ServicesFamily PathwaysGOOD IN THE 'HOOD: $438,359 · Human ServicesGOOD IN THE 'HOODDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $377,930 · Human ServicesDIVISION OF INDIAN WOR…COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC: $325,718 · Human ServicesEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $271,101 · Human Services+44 more: $4,145,446 · Human Services+44 more360 Communities: $245,320 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $195,500 · Community ImprovementSouthern Anoka Community Assistance: $188,588 · Community ImprovementUNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $133,547 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY BRIDGE: $64,683 · Community ImprovementTwo Harbors Area Food Shelf: $59,976 · Community ImprovementCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES): $199,954 · ReligionCHANGE STARTS WITH COMMUNITY: $110,114 · ReligionCHURCHES UNITED: $98,542 · ReligionNew Oil Christian Center: $74,107 · ReligionTHE STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC: $44,824 · ReligionTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $295,429 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTHWAY MINISTRIES: $109,303 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC: $287,060 · Employment
Other$14,924,519Food & Nutrition$11,988,311Human Services$7,034,999Community Improvement$887,614Religion$527,541Youth Development$404,732Employment$287,060

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA: $6,018,681 over 2y, 26% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $1,230,525 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $757,533 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCHANNEL ONE INC: $725,583 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS: $551,185 over 2y, 59% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR: $547,808 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetHOPE FOR THE COMMUNITY: $471,260 over 5y, 47% of budgetFamily Pathways: $454,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSecond Harvest Northland: $440,330 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetGOOD IN THE 'HOOD: $438,359 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD: $433,921 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetVEAP Inc: $421,282 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetKeystone Community Services: $383,937 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $377,930 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY INCORPORATED: $331,400 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC: $325,718 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetEMERGENCY COMMUNITY HELP ORGANIZATION INC: $314,668 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $295,429 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC: $287,060 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $271,101 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE COUNTY: $263,656 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION: $262,033 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetNORTHWEST INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER NWICDC: $250,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budget360 Communities: $245,320 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $232,197 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWHITE BEAR AREA FOOD SHELF: $229,356 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetValley Outreach: $228,484 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS INC: $218,232 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNEIGHBORS INC: $202,553 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES): $199,954 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $195,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPrairie Five Community Action Council Inc: $193,258 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $191,660 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $190,252 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetSCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC: $189,156 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSouthern Anoka Community Assistance: $188,588 over 5y, 11% of budgetBIG LAKE COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF INC: $176,924 over 5y, 20% of budgetSECOND HARVEST NORTH CENTRAL FOOD BANK: $173,511 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $167,934 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY AID OF ELK RIVER: $165,249 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetGROVELAND EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF INC: $164,005 over 5y, 16% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $160,050 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc: $159,305 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHASTINGS FAMILY SERVICE: $158,688 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetANOKA COUNTY BROTHERHOOD COUNCIL INC: $154,986 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetBEMIDJI COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF INC: $145,315 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetSOURCE MN INC: $141,946 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetPEOPLE REACHING OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE INC: $136,935 over 5y, 1.5% 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.

  • 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 Your Heart to the Hungry and HomelessMN109× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    71report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Hunger Solutions Minnesota?

    Find your warmest path to Hunger Solutions Minnesota through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 393 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $6.0M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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