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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.

$522k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Food & Nutrition$861kHuman Services$491kHousing & Shelter$178kEducation$120kReligion$98kYouth Development$89kCommunity Improvement$81kEmployment$51kHealth$15kOther$619k
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 31 grants below total $345,997 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $521,739 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $175,742 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $166k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$559k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FOOD GROUP$100,000
MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE$30,000
MY NEIGHBOR TO LOVE COALITION$10,000
WILDFLYER COFFEE$10,000
HOPE 4 YOUTH$10,000
ST ANNE'S PLACE - PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE$10,000
ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC$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
HOPE COALITION$7,000
THE OUTREACH PROGRAM OF BRAINERD LAKES$7,000
02The need
03

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.

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

area typical 7%VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES - FRUIT OF THE VINE SAINT PAUL: $8k → 6%CAER FOOD SHELF: $7k → 6%WOMEN'S SHELTER INC: $9k → 9%OASIS CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $10k → 10%WOMEN'S RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMS INC: $10k → 11%ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY PEACE: $7k → 11%VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $8k → 6%OASIS CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $8k → 10%WOMEN'S RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMS INC: $7k → 11%BASIC NEEDS INC OF SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY: $9k → 6%ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $10k → 7%GARRISON AREA CARE GIVERS: $8k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $10k → 11%WOMEN OF NATIONS: $10k → 14%ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $6k → 7%WOMEN OF NATIONS: $7k → 14%MANKATO YOUTH PLACE: $6k → 15%RESOURCES JUSTICE & MANAGEMENT: $8k → 7%WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK (WECAN): $6k → 11%FACE TO FACE HEALTH AND COUNSELING INC: $7k → 14%FACE TO FACE HEALTH & COUNSELING SERVICE: $7k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6k → 14%THE LINK: $13k → 11%ANOKA COUNTY BROTHERHOOD COUNCIL: $7k → 7%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $10k → 11%THE LINK: $10k → 11%THE LINK: $10k → 11%THE LINK: $10k → 11%THE LINK: $10k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $9k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $8k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $7k → 11%AIN DAH YUNG CENTER: $8k → 14%THE LINK: $7k → 11%THE LINK: $7k → 11%OPEN HANDS MIDWAY INC: $7k → 14%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC (CES): $8k → 11%OPEN HANDS MIDWAY INC: $7k → 14%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE (CES): $8k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $8k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC (CES): $7k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC (CES): $7k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC (CES): $7k → 11%OPEN ARMS NATIVE MISSIONS: $7k → 14%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 11%AL MAA'UUM: $9k → 11%AL MAA'UUM: $7k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $7k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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$724k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

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

53
70

Total granted

$1.9M
$535k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+26%

Still filing today

83%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k 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 & 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

  • MC
    MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +155%
  • TL
    THE LINK
    7× · 2017–2023 · $67k · revenue +124%
  • LA
    LOAVES AND FISHES TOO
    6× · 2017–2022 · $44k · revenue +866%

Funded once

  • NO
    New Oil Christian Center
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -16%
  • CA
    CARE AND SHARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +131%
  • LF
    LOAVES & FISHES HOUSING INC
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -46%

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.

1
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
2
Family Pathways

Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.

Human Services
3
The Humanity Alliance

The Humanity Alliance is a Minnesota-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that aspires to create long-lasting community value. Our initial focus is on providing improved access to nutrition for those who are food insecure... restoring love and…

Community Improvement
4
Heavens Table Food Shelf

Provide food for hungry individuals in martin county, mn

Food & Nutrition
5
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…

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6
Family Promise in Anoka County

Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) empowers families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.

Human Services
7
Minnesota Engagement On Shelter and Housing

Minnesota engagement on shelter and housing's mission is to foster statewide partnerships and strengthen capacity to end homelessness. mesh helps regions, communities, and organizations develop strategic and customized solutions for ending…

Housing & Shelter
8
Fargo Union Mission

A faith-based emergency shelter and crisis response ministry aimed at meeting the basic needs of food, shelter and clothing and transforming lives through the love of Jesus. Our mission is to serve people who are on the journey from…

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9
Lonsdale Area Food Shelf Inc

Provide emergency food relief for the families in the Lonsdale MN region .

Food & Nutrition
10
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
11
Middlebury Transitional Care Coalition

Provide emergency shelter for individuals who have become homeless, and a community meal program 7 days per week and social services case management and referrals as requested.

Housing & Shelter
12
Minnesota Acts Now

Crime and communities violence interve

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loaves and Fishes Too and the most unlike its peers is Du Nord Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%12%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr15%35%35–55yr15%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr15%58%35–55yr15%8%55yr+

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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%4/137
the rest of the field
13%
2,768/21,449

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.

04the grantee network

112 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 112 of the 137 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/112
Grantees still filing
86/112
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA — $665,000 · Food & NutritionHUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTAFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $100,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE+11 more — $95,931 · Food & Nutrition+11 moreLOAVES AND FISHES TOO — $44,152 · OtherLOAVES AND FISHES TOORED LAKE HOMELESS SHELTER INC — $41,171 · OtherRED LAKE HOMELESS SHELTER INCPEOPLE INCORPORATED — $38,916 · OtherPartners for Affordable Housing — $29,636 · OtherSouthern Anoka Community Assistance — $28,745 · Other+56 more — $584,108 · Other+56 moreTHE LINK — $67,000 · Human ServicesTHE LINKTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $33,195 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTHCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC — $28,946 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY S…OPEN HANDS MIDWAY — $20,000 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $20,000 · Human ServicesOASIS CENTRAL MINNESOTA INC — $18,400 · Human ServicesWOMEN OF NATIONS — $17,025 · Human ServicesBI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC — $16,830 · Human ServicesWOMENS RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMS — $16,500 · Human ServicesALEXANDRA HOUSE INC — $16,460 · Human Services+28 more — $236,404 · Human Services+28 moreHOPE COALITION — $31,909 · Housing & ShelterSTEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING — $26,110 · Housing & ShelterSERVANTS OF SHELTER OF KOOCHICHING — $24,225 · Housing & ShelterRUTH'S HOUSE OF HOPE — $21,560 · Housing & ShelterLOAVES & FISHES HOUSING INC — $12,817 · Housing & ShelterEVERGREEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $11,220 · Housing & ShelterMY NEIGHBOR TO LOVE COALITION — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterA PLACE FOR YOU INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF OWATONNA INC — $9,503 · Housing & ShelterHOPE AVENUE TWIN CITIES — $7,600 · Housing & ShelterNAMELESS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $6,601 · Housing & ShelterWOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC — $6,230 · Housing & ShelterMINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $120,000 · EducationCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) — $31,425 · ReligionRIVERS OF HOPE — $21,000 · ReligionNew Oil Christian Center — $20,000 · ReligionCHURCHES UNITED — $15,948 · ReligionAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC — $10,000 · ReligionAVENUES FOR YOUTH — $25,878 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE 4 Youth — $16,711 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTHWAY MINISTRIES — $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIFE HOUSE INC — $12,850 · Youth DevelopmentAKELEY REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCE — $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentLaunch Ministry — $5,000 · Youth Development
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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA — $665,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LINK — $67,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES TOO — $44,152 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED — $38,916 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $33,195 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE COALITION — $31,909 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) — $31,425 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPartners for Affordable Housing — $29,636 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC — $28,946 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Anoka Community Assistance — $28,745 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSTEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING — $26,110 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAVENUES FOR YOUTH — $25,878 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR — $25,778 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetADVOCATES AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE — $25,233 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetSERVANTS OF SHELTER OF KOOCHICHING — $24,225 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetAT HOME GROUP — $23,560 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetRUTH'S HOUSE OF HOPE — $21,560 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetRIVERS OF HOPE — $21,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetOUR SAVIOUR'S COMMUNITY SERVICES — $20,625 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNew Oil Christian Center — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOPEN HANDS MIDWAY — $20,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $20,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE CHARITIES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWildflyer Coffee — $17,920 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHASTINGS FAMILY SERVICE — $17,660 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN OF NATIONS — $17,025 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC — $16,830 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE 4 Youth — $16,711 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOMENS RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMS — $16,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetALEXANDRA HOUSE INC — $16,460 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES — $16,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED — $15,948 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAl-Maa'uun — $15,830 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS INC — $14,360 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHWAY MINISTRIES — $14,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCARE AND SHARE INC — $13,768 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetEMERGENCY COMMUNITY HELP ORGANIZATION INC — $13,745 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFace to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc — $13,694 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY INCORPORATED — $13,570 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE HOUSE INC — $12,850 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES HOUSING INC — $12,817 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES — $12,492 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $11,509 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEVERGREEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $11,220 over 1y, 0.5% of budget360 Communities — $11,210 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Otto Bremer TrustHunger Solutions Minn…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Edina Realty Foundati…The Minneapolis Found…Mardag FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…Allina Health SystemGreater Twin Cities U…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Medica Foundation
Otto Bremer TrustMN116.5× affinity79 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 organization Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your 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
    51report 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

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 137 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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