Minnesota · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,231,859 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($585,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Children's Home Society of Minnesota does
Mission
To help children thrive and to build, strengthen and sustain individual, family and community life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization distributed over $450k to 15 countries over the past five years through special projects and financial support for various efforts to children and caregivers. Icw programs are making a difference in the lives of thousands of children today and for generations to come.
$81,692 spentof which $68,888 as grants2% of program spendingThe organization's adoption program includes: foster care, foster care adoption, infant, intercountry (in eleven countries) and post adoption services. Most children adopted internationally are considered to be waiting international children or identified relative children. The organization maintains offices in the st. Paul (mn), prescott (wi), rockville (md) and fairfax (va) to serve families in minnesota, wisconsin, maryland and virginia. Using a network of partner agencies, the organization serves families throughout the u.s. And in other countries. The organization's post-adoption services was the first of its kind in the u.s., and provides domestic and international intermediary/search and background services; a birthland tour; support, counseling and educational services to all members of the adoption circle.
$4,200,173 spentof which $560,444 as grants$3,295,725 earned by the program98% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,281,865.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $17M to $19M (+16%).
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.
39% of CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Andrew Baese
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $197k → $629k.
15 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 funders by total. 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
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 41% · 2019 31% · 2020 25% · 2021 20% · 2022 17% · 2023 29% — 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
55% of CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
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
69% of CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota · exempt
- Children's Home Society Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA?
- CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,231,859 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($585,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $3,231,859 in grants to CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $585,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA 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 58 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing