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Warren Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$102k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 40
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Warren Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationReligionEmploymentHealthOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving20$102k10%
FY202420$91k0%
FY202333$115k12%
FY202235$114k26%
FY202138$126k34%
FY202040$117kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$189kEducation$128kHousing & Shelter$110kHealth$74kArts & Culture$71kYouth Development$54kReligion$30kInternational$17kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 51 grantees
All grantees of Warren Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Emma Norton Services$30,00060%
Good in the 'Hood$25,00060%
Keystone Community Services$25,00060%
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery$24,00050%
Avenues for Youth$23,00050%
Wallin Education Partners$22,00060%
College Possible Inc$22,00060%
The Banyan Foundation$20,00050%
Sojourner Project Inc$20,00050%
Literacy Minnesota$19,00050%
La Oportunidad Inc$19,00061%
Peacemaker Minnesota$19,00051%
Centro Tyrone Guzman$16,00040%
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School$16,0004n/a
Carmen Pampa Fund$15,00042%
The Bridge for Youth$15,00040%
Bridging Hearts Inc$13,00055%
Dakota Woodlands$13,00030%
East Side Learning Center$13,00041%
Familymeans$12,00040%
The Lift Garage$12,00040%
Our Lady of Peace$12,00030%
Catholic Youth Camps Inc$12,00032%
Hope Academy Inc$11,00030%
Opportunity Neighborhood$8,00031%
Children's Law Center of Minnesota$8,00030%
Upstream Arts Inc$8,00040%
Mobile Hope$8,00031%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities$7,00020%
Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies$7,00020%
Breakthrough Twin Cities$6,00020%
Community Partners with Youth$6,00021%
Clare Housing$6,00020%
Change Inc$6,0002n/a
Twin Cities$5,0001n/a
Blindness-Learning in New Dimensions Inc$5,00020%
Listening House of St Paul Inc$5,00010%
Angel Foundation$5,0001n/a
House of Charity$4,00010%
Cross (Christians Reaching Out in Social Services)$4,00010%
Involve Mn$4,00010%
Hope Dental Clinic$4,00020%
The St Paul Conservatory of Music$3,00010%
Neighborhood House$3,00010%
360 Communities$3,00010%
The St Paul and Ramsey County Domestic Abuse Intervention Project$3,00010%
Agate Housing & Services Inc$2,00010%
Neighborhood Network for Seniors$2,0001n/a
Child Aid$2,00010%
Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul$2,0001n/a
Division of Indian Work$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($109k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Warren Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEmma Norton Services: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGood in the 'Hood: $25,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKeystone Community Services: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $24,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAvenues for Youth: $23,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWallin Education Partners: $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCollege Possible Inc: $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation: $20,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSojourner Project Inc: $20,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLiteracy Minnesota: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLa Oportunidad Inc: $19,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetPeacemaker Minnesota: $19,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCentro Tyrone Guzman: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCarmen Pampa Fund: $15,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetThe Bridge for Youth: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBridging Hearts Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetDakota Woodlands: $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEast Side Learning Center: $13,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFamilymeans: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lift Garage: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOur Lady of Peace: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Youth Camps Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHope Academy Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOpportunity Neighborhood: $8,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Law Center of Minnesota: $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUpstream Arts Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMobile Hope: $8,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBreakthrough Twin Cities: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Partners with Youth: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetClare Housing: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBlindness-Learning in New Dimensions Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetListening House of St Paul Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHouse of Charity: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCross (Christians Reaching Out in Social Services): $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInvolve Mn: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHope Dental Clinic: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe St Paul Conservatory of Music: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNeighborhood House: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget360 Communities: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe St Paul and Ramsey County Domestic Abuse Intervention Project: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAgate Housing & Services Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Aid: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDivision of Indian Work: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 45.

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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 TrustMN64.5× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · The Casey Albert T Oneil Fdn

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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How do I get to Warren Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Warren Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Warren Foundation

How much does Warren Foundation give?
Warren Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $102,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Warren Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Education (18%), Housing & Shelter (16%).
Who are Warren Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Emma Norton Services ($30k), Good in the 'Hood ($25k), Keystone Community Services ($25k).
Does Warren Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Warren Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Warren Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is Warren Foundation based?
Warren Foundation is based in MN.

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 69 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-PF 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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