How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in Minnesota?

Start with the funders already giving to human services in Minnesota, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Greater Twin Cities United Way, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Minnesota from out of state.

Who is the largest human services funder in Minnesota?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to human services organizations in Minnesota, $79M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to human services in Minnesota?

$1.6B reached 1,447 human services organizations in Minnesota, from 2,700 funders. 72% came from funders also based in Minnesota.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Minnesota · Human services

Who funds human services in Minnesota

Human services funding in Minnesota is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota leads, and the money reaches 1,447 groups.

$1.6B

granted

1,447

organizations

72%

from in-state

The short version

2,700 funders gave $1.6B to 1,447 human services organizations in Minnesota across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
72% of that came from funders also based in Minnesota; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of human services in Minnesota is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $79M.
The human services organization drawing the most is Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, at $67M.

Largest funders of human services in Minnesota

The funders giving the most to human services organizations in Minnesota, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$79M 2Greater Twin Cities United Way$68M 3Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation$53M 4Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc$51M 5Otto Bremer Trust$50M 6Presbyterian Homes Housing & Assisted Living Inc$49M 7Presbyterian Homes Foundation$38M 8The Minneapolis Foundation$37M 9National Philanthropic Trust$35M 10Margaret a Cargill Foundation$32M

Human services organizations in Minnesota that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,437 other human services organizations$1.2B

How to find human services funders in Minnesota

1
Start with the funders already active in Minnesota
The funders giving the most to human services in Minnesota are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Greater Twin Cities United Way, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation. A funder already writing human services checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
28% of human services money in Minnesota comes from funders elsewhere, so national human services funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Minnesota.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in Minnesota?: Start with the funders already giving to human services in Minnesota, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Greater Twin Cities United Way, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Minnesota from out of state.
Who is the largest human services funder in Minnesota?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to human services organizations in Minnesota, $79M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to human services in Minnesota?: $1.6B reached 1,447 human services organizations in Minnesota, from 2,700 funders. 72% came from funders also based in Minnesota.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.