How much did OPEN YOUR HEART TO THE HUNGRY AND grant in FY2024?

Food & Nutrition$861kHuman Services$491kHousing & Shelter$178kEducation$120kReligion$98kYouth Development$89kCommunity Improvement$75kEmployment$51kHealth$15kOther$625k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

appliancescoolersovenrepaircooler

2019

englishinstructionclassesoffersroundrecruitedsupportive

2020

commercial freezerglassdoorbusminneapoliswalk-inempowering

2021

food storagewomenroofingtermdignitycoolershelter

2022

comprehensivefood storagehopeadvocacy educationsecurityviolencebeds

2023

food shelvestransportationpartialseniorsunhouseddrop-inreach-in

2024

dollars youthpluspurchasepartialrequestreplacehealthy

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k24 grants · $166k
$10k–50k6 grants · $80k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$7,000

Median grant

States reached

$559k

Total assets

Largest grants

THE FOOD GROUP$100,000
MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE$30,000
ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC$10,000
WILDFLYER COFFEE$10,000
HOPE 4 YOUTH$10,000
MY NEIGHBOR TO LOVE COALITION$10,000
ST ANNE'S PLACE - PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE$10,000
RUTH'S HOUSE OF HOPE$9,811
INTERFAITH ACTION OF GREATER SAINT PAUL$9,195
COMMUNITY BRIDGE$9,000
COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE (CES)$8,160
TOWER AREA FOOD SHELF$8,000
YOUTHWAY MINISTRIES$7,000
CONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCE$7,000
HOPE COALITION$7,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $468k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 7%. 91% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.9M · 53 repeat orgs$729k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$541k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

+84%

Still filing today

83%

76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementReligionOther

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

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THE MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
4× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +21%
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THE LINK
7× · 2017–2023 · $67k · revenue +124%
LA
LOAVES AND FISHES
6× · 2017–2022 · $44k · revenue +605%

Funded once

NO
NEW OIL CHRISTIAN CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +190%
CA
CARE AND SHARE OF CROOKSTON INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +132%
LA
LOAVES AND FISHES HOUSINGgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +228%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Open Your Heart to the Hungry and

Open your heart believes that every minnesotan should be free from hunger and homelessness. we make an impact by partnering with those who serve people in need, growing donor engagement and increasing awareness.

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Family Promise in Anoka County

Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) provides temporary shelter, hospitality, and case management to assist families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.

Human Services

The Dwelling Place

Providing safe housing and holistic programs for women and children escaping abuse.

Human Services

House of Charity

Feed those in need, house those experiencing homelessness, and empower individuals to achieve independence.

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People Responding in Social Ministry

To provide social services and connections that empower people in our community to build healthy, stable lives.

Human Services

Fargo Union Mission

Provide lodging, meals, clothing, and assistance to men, women and children in the community.

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Foundation for Essential Needs

To reshape the minnesota hunger relief system so that all food shelf shoppers (clients) are provided with predictable, healthy food options in a dignified and welcoming environment.

Human Services

Heavens Table Food Shelf

Provide food to hungry individuals in martin county, mn

Food & Nutrition

Oshkosh Area Community Pantry Inc

The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition

Meals From the Heart

Meals from the Heart is a nonprofit organization that brings people together to serve their neighbors through easy to execute, energized and fun meal packing events building relationships and strengthening communities while providing…

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Kandiyohi County Food Shelf

By utilizing and bringing together community resources the willmar area food shelf will provide food assistance to individuals and families. our goal is to insure no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition

Family Pathways

Work alongside people and the community to enhance lives and champion positive social change.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loaves and Fishes Too and the most unlike its peers is Every Meal. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 17. 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 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%3/138

the rest of the field

11%

2,386/21,448

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.

05the grantee network

112 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

111/112

Grantees still filing

99/112

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Food & Nutrition$860,931Other$766,728Human Services$490,760Housing & Shelter$177,775Education$120,000Religion$98,373Youth Development$89,439

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.

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.

Hunger Solutions MinnesotaMN117.7× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Allina Health System · Medica Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mardag Foundation

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 organisation OPEN YOUR HEART TO THE HUNGRY AND 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: EMILY FOOD SHELF.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 453504397 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on EMILY FOOD SHELF, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Open Your Heart to the Hungry And?

Find your warmest path to Open Your Heart to the Hungry And through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

OPEN YOUR HEART TO THE HUNGRY AND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

112 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Open Your Heart to the Hungry And?

More from the funding graph

OPEN YOUR HEART TO THE HUNGRY AND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

112 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Open Your Heart to the Hungry And?

More from the funding graph