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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AVENUES FOR YOUTH$6,000
SOJOURNER PROJECT$6,000
EMMA NORTON SERVICES$6,000
PEACEMAKER MINNESOTA$6,000
OUR LADY OF PEACE$6,000
WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS$6,000
GOOD IN THE HOOD$5,000
ANGEL FOUNDATION$5,000
BANYAN COMMUNITY$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER$5,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$5,000
KEYSTONE COMMUNITY SERVICES$5,000
LISTENING HOUSE$5,000
REDEYE THEATER$5,000
LITERACY MINNESOTA$5,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its 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%GREAT MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER 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%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $4k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $4k → 11%LISTENING HOUSE OF ST PAUL INC: $5k → 14%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $4k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $5k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $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%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $3k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $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
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+75%

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
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

  • 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 +131%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF CHARITY
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue 0%
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
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.

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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…

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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.

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

49 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. 49 of the 69 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
38/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 INCFAMILYMEANS: $12,000 · Human ServicesFAMILYMEANSOUR LADY OF PEACE: $12,000 · Human ServicesOUR LADY OF PEACECLARE HOUSING: $6,000 · Human ServicesCHANGE INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 5y, 0.1% of 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
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 REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EMMA NORTON SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds GOOD IN THE 'HOOD ↗
  • Who funds Keystone Community Services ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Sojourner Project Inc ↗
  • 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 FAMILYMEANS ↗
  • Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
  • Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC YOUTH CAMPS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds UPSTREAM ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Mobile Hope ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES ↗
  • Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities ↗

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 TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…The Richard M Schulze…Hardenbergh FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…Mightycause Charitabl…The Walser FoundationMardag FoundationFred C and Katherine …The Casey Albert T On…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%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
    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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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