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The Sheltering Arms Foundation

"THE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION invests in the lives of minnesotas children to help them reach their full potential.

$599k
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Youth Development$1.2MEducation$1.0MHuman Services$925kHousing & Shelter$327kHealth$316kArts & Culture$200kCommunity Improvement$128kCivil Rights$98kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 56 grants below total $575,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $599,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,000 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $472k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$25,000
ST DAVID'S CENTER FOR CHILD & FAMI$22,000
IGNITE AFTERSCHOOL$12,500
HISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY$12,000
INTERFAITH ACTION OF GREATER SAINT$12,000
WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN$12,000
LIBERTY COMMUNITY CHURCH$12,000
PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC$12,000
NORTHLAND FOUNDATION$12,000
THINK SMALL$10,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$10,000
826 MSP$10,000
WILDER FOUNDATION$10,000
NORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIA$10,000
EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE INC$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LEE CARLSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELL-BEING: $15k → 7%YWCA of Mankato: $15k → 15%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $18k → 21%Urban Strategies Inc: $15k → 21%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $15k → 21%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $10k → 21%Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $10k → 11%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $12k → 21%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $10k → 21%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $10k → 21%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER I: $13k → 14%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 14%FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $10k → 11%YWCA OF DULUTH: $15k → 15%FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $10k → 11%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 14%FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $10k → 11%FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $10k → 11%FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $10k → 11%LINCOLN PARK CHILDREN & FAMILIES COLLABORATIVE: $15k → 15%Child Care Aware of Minnesota: $15k → 14%CHILD CARE AWARE OF MINNESOTA: $15k → 14%CHILD CARE AWARE OF MINNESOTA: $15k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $15k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $15k → 14%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $13k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $13k → 11%THINK SMALL: $15k → 14%THINK SMALL: $15k → 14%THINK SMALL: $15k → 14%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $15k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $15k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $15k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $15k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $15k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $15k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $15k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $15k → 11%BABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $15k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $15k → 11%BABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $13k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $12k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $12k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $12k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $12k → 11%PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 11%Way to Grow: $13k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $12k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 94 repeat orgs$287k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

94 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
27

Total granted

$4.3M
$287k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+31%

Still filing today

93%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • SD
    ST DAVID'S CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +35%
  • NF
    NORTHLAND FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $119k · revenue +162%
  • URBAN STRATEGIES INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +203%

Funded once

  • LC
    LEE CARLSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELL-BEING
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -69%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MANKATO
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +17%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +55%

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
Breakthrough Twin Cities

Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.

Education
2
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
3
Youthprise

Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.

Education
4
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

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5
Minnesota Chapter of the National Childrens Alliance

The Minnesota Children's Alliance leads the development and growth of locally based children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access to services for healing and growth.

Crime & Legal
6
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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7
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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8
Parents in Community Action Inc

Pica provides comprehensive early childhood and family development services that empower children and families to reach their full potential.(expanded mission on schedule o)pica supports parents and their communities in defining their…

Human Services
9
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
10
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal
11
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
12
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kwanzaa Community Church Pcusa Liberty Community Church Pcusa. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCharter Schools K-8Veterans Fraternal Organiza…Youth Sports ProgramsDisability Employment Servi…Arts & Cultural Organizatio…Social Justice Advocacy Org…Professional Trade Associat…Ethnic Community Cultural O…Affordable Housing Developm…Education Scholarship FundsCommunity Foundations and G…
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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%8%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr15%32%35–55yr14%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr15%33%35–55yr14%25%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/121
the rest of the field
14%
2,016/14,606

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

113 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. 113 of the 121 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/113
Grantees still filing
80/113
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

URBAN STRATEGIES INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesURBAN STRATEGIES INCCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $86,500 · Human ServicesCENTRO TYRONE GUZMANYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $85,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIAT…MINNESOTA CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK — $85,000 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA CHILD CARE RESOURCE…Think Small — $85,000 · Human ServicesThink SmallYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $80,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF MINNEAPOLISPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $76,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING I…WAY TO GROW — $74,500 · Human ServicesWAY TO GROWBABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW — $57,500 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $50,000 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesFIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE — $50,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Partnership — $40,000 · Human Services+17 more — $271,500 · Human Services+17 moreKwanzaa Community Church PCUSA Liberty Community Church PCUSA — $78,500 · OtherINTERFAITH ACTION OF GREATER SAINT PAUL — $69,000 · OtherHISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY — $74,000 · OtherWashburn Center for Children — $76,000 · OtherNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE — $64,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $67,500 · Other+51 more — $1,402,500 · Other+51 moreST DAVID'S CENTER — $136,500 · Youth DevelopmentST DAVID'…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $57,500 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTH…HOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOSPITALI…CREATEMPLS — $41,000 · Youth DevelopmentCREATEMPL…MENTOR NORTH — $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentMENTOR NO…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROCHESTER — $31,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …Something Cool Inc — $22,000 · Youth DevelopmentSomething…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $15,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $10,000 · Youth Development826 MSP — $83,000 · EducationIGNITE AFTERSCHOOL — $72,500 · EducationDULUTH COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE — $37,500 · EducationMorning Glory Montessori — $30,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERS — $27,500 · EducationFRIENDSHIP ACADEMY OF THE ARTS — $27,000 · EducationATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS — $20,000 · Education+2 more — $20,000 · EducationGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $175,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHLAND FOUNDATION — $119,000 · PhilanthropySERVEMINNESOTA — $81,500 · Community ImprovementPROJECT FINE — $60,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $52,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE — $45,000 · Community ImprovementThe Banyan Foundation — $30,000 · Community ImprovementEMMA NORTON SERVICES — $62,500 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC — $55,000 · Housing & ShelterAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION — $55,000 · Housing & ShelterST CROIX FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPE COMMUNITY INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterOPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $7,500 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$1,181,000Other$1,831,500Youth Development$391,000Education$317,500Philanthropy$294,000Community Improvement$268,500Housing & Shelter$260,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST DAVID'S CENTER — $136,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHLAND FOUNDATION — $119,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN STRATEGIES INC — $90,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $86,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $85,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK — $85,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetThink Small — $85,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budget826 MSP — $83,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetSERVEMINNESOTA — $81,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $80,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKwanzaa Community Church PCUSA Liberty Community Church PCUSA — $78,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $76,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWashburn Center for Children — $76,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWAY TO GROW — $74,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY — $74,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetIGNITE AFTERSCHOOL — $72,500 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $67,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE — $64,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEMMA NORTON SERVICES — $62,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT FINE — $60,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $57,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW — $57,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPLYMOUTH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER — $57,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC — $55,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION — $55,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKeystone Community Services — $52,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $52,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES — $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER — $49,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetFRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC — $48,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJOYCE PRESCHOOL — $48,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetProject Friendship Inc — $45,500 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetNORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE — $45,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT — $45,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY — $45,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES — $44,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School — $43,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCREATEMPLS — $41,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetThe Family Partnership — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPERSPECTIVES INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDULUTH COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE — $37,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCENTER CITY HOUSING CORP — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY — $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetIllusion Theater and School Inc — $35,000 over 3y, 1.7% 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.

  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds ST DAVID'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds URBAN STRATEGIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Think Small ↗
  • Who funds 826 MSP ↗
  • Who funds SERVEMINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
  • Who funds Kwanzaa Community Church PCUSA Liberty Community Church PCUSA ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
  • Who funds WAY TO GROW ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds IGNITE AFTERSCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
  • Who funds EMMA NORTON SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FINE ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES ↗
  • Who funds BABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW ↗
  • Who funds PLYMOUTH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds Keystone Community Services ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JOYCE PRESCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Project Friendship Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗

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 TrustGreater Twin Cities U…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…YouthpriseMardag FoundationThe Sauer Family Foun…The Richard M Schulze…Medica FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationThe Walser FoundationTarget Foundation
Otto Bremer TrustMN113× affinity71 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Youthprise · Mardag Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Medica Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Target 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 The Sheltering Arms Foundation 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%5%11%20%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
    57report 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 121 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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