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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 56 grants below total $575,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $599,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
LIBERTY COMMUNITY CHURCH$12,000
NORTHLAND FOUNDATION$12,000
INTERFAITH ACTION OF GREATER SAINT$12,000
PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC$12,000
WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN$12,000
HISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY$12,000
NORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIA$10,000
WAY TO GROW$10,000
WILDER FOUNDATION$10,000
URBAN STRATEGIES INC$10,000
PROJECT FINE$10,000
CHILD CARE AWARE OF MINNESOTA$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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%YWCA OF DULUTH: $15k → 15%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%FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $10k → 11%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 14%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%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $15k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $15k → 11%BABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $15k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $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%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $12k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

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%
+39%

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
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.

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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Change Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

113 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/113
Grantees still filing
81/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetJOYCE PRESCHOOL: $48,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC: $48,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetProject Friendship Inc: $45,500 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY: $45,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $45,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: $45,000 over 4y, 0.8% 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 budgetPERSPECTIVES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Family Partnership: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDULUTH COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE: $37,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetIllusion Theater and School Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY: $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER CITY HOUSING CORP: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 JOYCE PRESCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Project Friendship Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds NORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE ↗

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Sheltering Arms Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sheltering Arms Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 121 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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