Minnesota · Public charity
Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless
Since 1986, OPEN YOUR HEART TO THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. By partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to provide minnesotans with access to life's most basic necessities:food, shelter, and safety.
- $522k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $346k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $559k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 59% of the organizations Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $346k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $355k | 59% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $368k | 49% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $309k | 61% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $351k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $308k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $256k | 57% |
| FY2017 | 27 | $311k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunger Solutions Minnesota | $665,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Minneapolis Community & Technical College Foundation | $120,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Food Group Minnesota Inc The | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Link | $67,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Loaves and Fishes Too | $44,152 | 6 | 0% |
| Red Lake Homeless Shelter Inc | $41,171 | 4 | n/a |
| People Incorporated | $38,916 | 4 | 0% |
| The Bridge for Youth | $33,195 | 4 | 0% |
| Hope Coalition | $31,909 | 4 | 1% |
| Cross (Christians Reaching Out in Social Services) | $31,425 | 3 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Otto Bremer Trust · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Allina Health System · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Medica Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless with peer funders
About Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless
- How much does Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless give?
- Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless reported 31 itemized grants totaling $345,997, out of $521,739 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (53%), Housing & Shelter (20%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hunger Solutions Minnesota ($665k), Minneapolis Community & Technical College Foundation ($120k), Food Group Minnesota Inc The ($100k).
- Does Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Hunger Solutions Minnesota, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless based?
- Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless is based in MN.
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