How much does The Sheltering Arms Foundation give?

The Sheltering Arms Foundation reported 56 itemized grants totaling $575,000, out of $599,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Sheltering Arms Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (26%), Education (23%), Human Services (20%).

Who are The Sheltering Arms Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Twin Cities United Way ($175k), St David's Center ($137k), Northland Foundation ($119k).

Does The Sheltering Arms Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Sheltering Arms Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Greater Twin Cities United Way, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.

Where is The Sheltering Arms Foundation based?

The Sheltering Arms Foundation is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

The Sheltering Arms Foundation

"THE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION invests in the lives of minnesotas children to help them reach their full potential. The foundation funds not-for-profit organizations and supports policies that benefit children and their families who have the least access to resources."

$599k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 56
Itemized grants FY2025: 56
Organizations funded FY2024: 20%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $575k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $25,000
Organizations funded a year: 39 to 56; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $17M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Sheltering Arms Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	56	$575k	0%
FY2024	56	$573k	20%
FY2023	50	$570k	20%
FY2022	41	$445k	10%
FY2021	43	$490k	14%
FY2020	39	$465k	28%
FY2019	39	$458k	41%
FY2018	39	$482k	51%

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Greater Twin Cities United Way	$175,000	7	0%
St David's Center	$136,500	8	0%
Northland Foundation	$119,000	8	0%
Urban Strategies Inc	$90,000	7	0%
Centro Tyrone Guzman	$86,500	7	1%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North	$85,000	8	0%
Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network	$85,000	7	0%
Think Small	$85,000	7	0%
826 Msp	$83,000	7	3%
Serveminnesota	$81,500	7	0%

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All grantees of The Sheltering Arms Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Greater Twin Cities United Way	$175,000	7	0%
St David's Center	$136,500	8	0%
Northland Foundation	$119,000	8	0%
Urban Strategies Inc	$90,000	7	0%
Centro Tyrone Guzman	$86,500	7	1%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North	$85,000	8	0%
Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network	$85,000	7	0%
Think Small	$85,000	7	0%
826 Msp	$83,000	7	3%
Serveminnesota	$81,500	7	0%
YWCA of Minneapolis	$80,000	7	0%
Kwanzaa Community Church PCUSA Liberty Community Church PCUSA	$78,500	6	1%
Project for Pride in Living Inc	$76,000	6	0%
Washburn Center for Children	$76,000	7	0%
Way to Grow	$74,500	7	0%
Hispanic Outreach of Goodhue County	$74,000	6	7%
Ignite Afterschool	$72,500	7	3%
Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul	$69,000	5	n/a
Children's Defense Fund	$67,500	5	0%
Northside Achievement Zone	$64,000	6	0%
Emma Norton Services	$62,500	6	1%
Project Fine	$60,000	5	3%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities	$57,500	6	0%
Baby's Space a Place to Grow	$57,500	5	1%
Plymouth Christian Youth Center	$57,000	5	0%
People Serving People Inc	$55,000	5	0%
American Indian Community Housing Organization	$55,000	4	1%
Keystone Community Services	$52,000	5	0%
Neighborhood House	$52,000	5	0%
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota	$50,000	4	0%
Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies	$50,000	5	1%
Amherst H Wilder Foundation	$50,000	5	0%
First Children's Finance	$50,000	5	0%
Southside Family Nurturing Center	$49,000	5	1%
Joyce Preschool	$48,000	5	1%
Fred Wells Tennis and Education Center Inc	$48,000	5	1%
Project Friendship Inc	$45,500	6	9%
Churches United in Ministry	$45,000	4	1%
Hospitality House Youth Development	$45,000	5	1%
Northfield Healthy Community Initiative	$45,000	4	1%
Commonbond Communities	$44,500	4	0%
Children's Theatre Company and School	$43,000	4	0%
Creatempls	$41,000	5	5%
Perspectives Inc	$40,000	3	0%
The Family Partnership	$40,000	4	0%
Duluth Community School Collaborative	$37,500	3	3%
Illusion Theater and School Inc	$35,000	3	2%
Walker West Music Academy	$35,000	4	1%
Center City Housing Corp	$35,000	2	0%
Minnesota Council of Churches	$35,000	4	n/a
Young Women's Christian Association of Duluth	$34,000	4	1%
Hallie Q Brown Community Center Inc	$32,500	3	0%
Mentor North	$32,500	3	4%
Pillsbury United Communities	$32,000	3	0%
Boys and Girls Club of Rochester	$31,500	4	0%
Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation	$30,000	3	0%
Homegrown Lacrosse	$30,000	3	0%
Lifetrack Resources Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Morning Glory Montessori	$30,000	3	9%
Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches	$30,000	3	0%
Simpson Housing Services Inc	$30,000	2	0%
The Banyan Foundation	$30,000	3	1%
St Croix Family Resource Center	$30,000	3	3%
Urban Arts Academy	$30,000	3	2%
FamilyWise Services	$30,000	3	0%
Wayside House Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Reading Partners	$27,500	3	0%
Friendship Academy of the Arts	$27,000	3	0%
Compas Inc	$26,000	3	1%
Nurse-Family Partnership	$25,000	3	0%
Haven Housing	$25,000	2	1%
Domestic Abuse Project Inc	$24,500	2	1%
Youth Farm and Market Project	$22,500	3	4%
Emerge Community Development	$22,000	2	0%
Something Cool Inc	$22,000	2	6%
Youable Emotional Health Services	$22,000	2	0%
East Side Neighborhood Services Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Communidades Latinas Unidas En Servico Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Commusication	$20,000	2	7%
Ain Dah Yung (Our Home) Center	$20,000	2	0%
Athletes Committed to Educating Students	$20,000	2	1%
Holy Rosary Church	$20,000	2	n/a
Hmong American Partnership	$20,000	2	0%
A Chance to Grow	$20,000	2	0%
We Impacti	$20,000	2	15%
Rise Early Learning Center	$20,000	2	1%
Hope Community Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Itasca Area Schools Collaborative	$20,000	2	n/a
Mental Health Collective	$20,000	2	1%
Relentless Academy	$20,000	2	3%
Familymeans	$17,000	2	0%
Change Inc	$15,000	2	0%
Friends of the Children Fargo- Moorhead	$15,000	2	1%
Lee Carlson Center for Mental Health & Well-Being	$15,000	1	0%
Young Women's Christian Association of Mankato	$15,000	1	2%
The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library	$15,000	1	1%
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities	$15,000	2	0%
Division of Indian Work	$15,000	1	0%
Lincoln Park Children and Families Collaborative	$15,000	1	6%
Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc	$13,000	1	n/a
Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board	$12,000	1	n/a
Jeremiah Program	$10,000	1	0%
East Side Neighborhood Development Company Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Amazeworks	$10,000	1	3%
Partnership Academy Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Lower Sioux Indian Community	$10,000	1	n/a
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery	$10,000	1	0%
Kinship Partners Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Agate Housing & Services Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners	$10,000	1	0%
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis	$10,000	1	0%
Camp Fire Minnesota	$10,000	1	0%
Relate Inc	$10,000	1	0%
A Minnesota Without Poverty	$10,000	1	n/a
Opportunity Neighborhood	$10,000	1	3%
Hibbing Kinship Mentoring Program	$10,000	1	n/a
Solid Ground	$10,000	1	0%
Twin Cities Housing Development Corporation	$7,500	1	0%
Honor the Earth	$7,500	1	0%
Learning Disabilities Association Inc	$7,000	1	1%
Bloom Early Learning	$5,000	1	n/a

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sheltering Arms Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 109.

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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.

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

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.

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About The Sheltering Arms Foundation

How much does The Sheltering Arms Foundation give?: The Sheltering Arms Foundation reported 56 itemized grants totaling $575,000, out of $599,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Sheltering Arms Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (26%), Education (23%), Human Services (20%).
Who are The Sheltering Arms Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Twin Cities United Way ($175k), St David's Center ($137k), Northland Foundation ($119k).
Does The Sheltering Arms Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sheltering Arms Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Greater Twin Cities United Way, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is The Sheltering Arms Foundation based?: The Sheltering Arms Foundation is based in MN.