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Anselm House

Anselm House (Minnesota) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,154,431 to it, the largest being The Jennings Family Foundation ($4,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$1.9M
17/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%
01What it does

What Anselm House does

Mission

Anselm House exists to connect faith and knowledge with all of life, equipping students, faculty, and staff at the University of Minnesota and individuals in the Twin Cities area to lead integrated lives in Jesus Christ.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Study Center - At Melrose Station, located in the University of Minnesota's "Stadium Village," students gather to study, socialize, and participate in Anselm House programs. Melrose Station has a small library and gallery and hosts regular weekly rhythms, including noontime prayer, afternoon tea, and weekly lunches with discussions. Partnering campus ministries are able to reserve rooms.Community Discussions - Through semester-long reading groups and weekly community meals that gather people from across denominations, the Organization fosters ongoing conversations and longterm relationships where faith and knowledge can be integrated with life.

    $818,204 spentof which $1,331 as grants$256,262 earned by the program
    50% of program spending
  2. Public Events - Through events large and small, the Organization annually convenes thousands of university and community members for lectures and forums on a wide spectrum of topics in the areas of health and medicine, science and engineering, education, law and public affairs, agriculture and animal science, and liberal arts and business.

    $490,923 spent
    30% of program spending
  3. Fellows Programs - Within the student Fellows program, tutors lead small cohorts of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students through a curriculum designed to help students integrate their work at the university with their Christian faith. Through shared meals, facilitated conversations, retreats, and communal prayer and worship, students learn to order knowledge to the love of God and neighbor as well as grow in both moral and intellectual character. We offer similar programs for University of Minnesota faculty members and staff. Two communities of student fellows live together in one of two residential community houses.

    $327,282 spent
    20% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,636,409.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($478k) Expenses 100 ($539k) Net assets 100 ($376k)2018 Revenue 146 ($696k) Expenses 104 ($560k) Net assets 136 ($512k)2019 Revenue 978 ($4.7M) Expenses 154 ($828k) Net assets 1158 ($4.4M)2021 Revenue 1666 ($8.0M) Expenses 163 ($877k) Net assets 2983 ($11M)2022 Revenue 1231 ($5.9M) Expenses 2471 ($13M) Net assets 1006 ($3.8M)2023 Revenue 445 ($2.1M) Expenses 637 ($3.4M) Net assets 653 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 358 ($1.7M) Expenses 372 ($2.0M) Net assets 573 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 336 ($1.6M) Expenses 370 ($2.0M) Net assets 499 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (336)Expenses (370)Net assets (499)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $3.8M (−66%).

$479k
$604k
$4.4M
$11M
$3.8M
$2.5M
$2.6M
$2.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$62k
’17
$136k
’18
$3.8M
’19
$7.1M
’21
−$7.4M
’22
−$1.3M
’23
−$296k
’24
−$391k
’25
1.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Bryan Bademan

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1011131111131214
Joined·+3+2·+5+3+0+4
No longer listed·20·5112
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $131k → $1.5M.

8 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Anselm House’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Anselm House leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Anselm House.

33%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 35% · 2019 66% · 2020 37% · 2021 75% · 2022 54% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of Anselm House's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

96% of Anselm House's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

ME
MN
WI
IN
AR
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Anselm House

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 8%Fundraising 10%

Governance

12
board members
92%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

54%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Friends of Anselm House · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Anselm House?
Anselm House (Minnesota) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,154,431 to it, the largest being The Jennings Family Foundation ($4,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Anselm House have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $12,154,431 in grants to Anselm House, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Anselm House?
The Jennings Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Anselm House find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing