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Warren Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
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 FY20202025.

Human Services$189kEducation$128kHousing & Shelter$110kHealth$74kArts & Culture$71kYouth Development$54kReligion$30kInternational$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEACEMAKER MINNESOTA$6,000
SOJOURNER PROJECT$6,000
OUR LADY OF PEACE$6,000
AVENUES FOR YOUTH$6,000
WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS$6,000
EMMA NORTON SERVICES$6,000
LISTENING HOUSE$5,000
ANGEL FOUNDATION$5,000
BANYAN COMMUNITY$5,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$5,000
KEYSTONE COMMUNITY SERVICES$5,000
TWIN CITIES$5,000
GOOD IN THE HOOD$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER$5,000
LITERACY MINNESOTA$5,000
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 (FY20–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FAMILYMEANS: $3k → 6%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $6k → 11%FAMILY MEANS: $3k → 6%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $5k → 11%FAMILYMEANS: $3k → 6%SOJOURNER PROJECT INC: $4k → 11%FAMILYMEANS: $3k → 6%SOJOURNER PROJECT INC: $3k → 11%INVOLVE MN: $4k → 6%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $2k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREAT MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $4k → 11%BRIDGING HEARTS: $4k → 11%BRIDGING HEARTS: $3k → 11%BRIDGING HEARTS: $2k → 11%ST PAUL & RAMSEY COUNTY DOMESTIC ABUSE: $3k → 14%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $4k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $4k → 11%LISTENING HOUSE OF ST PAUL INC: $5k → 14%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $4k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $5k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $5k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $4k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $4k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $4k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $4k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $4k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $3k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $3k → 11%CHANGE INC: $3k → 14%CHANGE INC: $3k → 14%BRIDGING HEARTS: $2k → 11%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $6k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $3k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $3k → 14%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $2k → 11%CLARE HOUSING: $3k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $5k → 11%CLARE HOUSING: $3k → 11%BRIDGING HEARTS: $2k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$591k · 45 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
21

Total granted

$591k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+56%

Still filing today

76%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationReligionCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • EN
    EMMA NORTON SERVICES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +93%
  • KC
    Keystone Community Services
    6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +41%
  • GM
    GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAINT PAUL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE--
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • LH
    LISTENING HOUSE OF ST PAUL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +69%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF CHARITY
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue 0%

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
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
2
Minnesota Housing Partnership

Minnesota housing partnership (mhp) expands housing and community development opportunity by leading collaborative work to promote systems change and grow develoopment capacity.

3
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
4
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…

5
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
6
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
7
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.

Community Improvement
8
Community Neighborhood Housing Services

Our mission is "empowering individuals and communities by helping people, buy, fix and keep their homes". to further this work, we provide homeownership education and advising as well as residential community lending programs to families…

Housing & Shelter
9
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
10
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
11
The Dwelling Place

The Dwelling Place is a Christ-centered ministry providing healing and hope to victims of domestic abuse through supportive services and a safe, transitional place to call home.

Human Services
12
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridging Hearts Inc. 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 backsteadyBasic Needs & Food Assistan…Charter SchoolsSenior Residential CareAffordable Housing Developm…East African Muslim Communi…Community Arts CentersEnvironmental Conservation …
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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%45%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%43%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr13%18%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
14%
1,904/13,213

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

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

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 69 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
38/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Keystone Community Services — $25,000 · OtherKeystone Community ServicesLA OPORTUNIDAD INC — $19,000 · OtherLA OPORTUNIDAD INCLISTENING HOUSE — $19,000 · OtherLISTENING HOUSECRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL — $16,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLDAKOTA WOODLANDS — $13,000 · OtherREDEYE THEATER — $12,000 · OtherMIXED BLOOD THEATER — $11,000 · OtherCATHOLIC YOUTH CAMPS INC — $12,000 · OtherCarmen Pampa Fund — $15,000 · OtherCarmen Pampa FundThe Lift Garage — $12,000 · Other+27 more — $126,000 · Other+27 moreGOOD IN THE 'HOOD — $25,000 · Human ServicesGOOD IN THE 'HOODGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $24,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS…Sojourner Project Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesSojourner Project IncCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $16,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO TYRONE GUZMANTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTHBRIDGING HEARTS INC — $13,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGING HEARTS INCOUR LADY OF PEACE — $12,000 · Human ServicesOUR LADY OF PEACEFAMILYMEANS — $12,000 · Human ServicesFAMILYMEANSCHANGE INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesCLARE HOUSING — $6,000 · Human Services+4 more — $14,000 · Human Services+4 moreWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — $22,000 · EducationWALLIN EDUCATION …COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $22,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE …LITERACY MINNESOTA — $19,000 · EducationLITERACY MINNESOT…PEACEMAKER MINNESOTA — $19,000 · EducationPEACEMAKER MINNES…EAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER — $13,000 · EducationEAST SIDE LEARNIN…HOPE ACADEMY INC — $11,000 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INCBreakthrough Twin Cities — $6,000 · EducationBreakthrough Twin…REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $42,000 · HealthBLINDNESS-LEARNING IN NEW DIMENSIONS INC — $5,000 · HealthANGEL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthEMMA NORTON SERVICES — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterOPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD — $8,000 · Housing & ShelterAVENUES FOR YOUTH — $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentCommunity Partners with Youth — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Banyan Foundation — $20,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $3,000 · Community Improvement360 Communities — $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$280,000Human Services$163,000Education$112,000Health$52,000Housing & Shelter$38,000Youth Development$36,000Community Improvement$26,000

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $42,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEMMA NORTON SERVICES — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKeystone Community Services — $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD IN THE 'HOOD — $25,000 over 6y, 0.3% 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 budgetSojourner Project Inc — $20,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation — $20,000 over 5y, 0.4% 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 budgetOUR LADY OF PEACE — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC YOUTH CAMPS INC — $12,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILYMEANS — $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lift Garage — $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA — $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMobile Hope — $8,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD — $8,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUPSTREAM ARTS INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% 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 AND RAMSEY COUNTY DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROJECT — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetCHILD AID — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK — $2,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds EMMA NORTON SERVICES
  • Who funds Keystone Community Services
  • Who funds GOOD IN THE 'HOOD
  • Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY
  • Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH
  • Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC
  • Who funds Sojourner Project Inc
  • Who funds The Banyan Foundation
  • Who funds LITERACY MINNESOTA
  • Who funds LA OPORTUNIDAD INC
  • Who funds PEACEMAKER MINNESOTA
  • Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN
  • Who funds Carmen Pampa Fund
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH
  • Who funds BRIDGING HEARTS INC
  • Who funds DAKOTA WOODLANDS
  • Who funds EAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER
  • Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE
  • Who funds CATHOLIC YOUTH CAMPS INC
  • Who funds FAMILYMEANS
  • Who funds The Lift Garage
  • Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA
  • Who funds Mobile Hope
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD
  • Who funds UPSTREAM ARTS INC
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES
  • Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities
  • Who funds Community Partners with Youth

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 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

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 Warren 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    24report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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 69 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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