Minnesota · Nonprofit
CORNERHOUSE
CORNERHOUSE (Minnesota) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,543,428 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($405,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $358k
What Cornerhouse does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Forensics- the Cornerhouse forensic services team offers a safe and confidential place for children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults, who are suspected victims or witnesses of abuse, to talk about their experiences. In the year 2025, 566 individuals participated in a forensic interview within the context of a coordinated, multidisciplinary investigation. A forensic interview is a neutral, fact-finding inquiry conducted with consideration for the developmental and emotional needs of each individual. Cornerhouse abides by a "person centered" approach which ensures that the needs of the individual are given first priority during the forensic interview process. The forensic interview is person-centered and is aligned with the cognitive, behavioral, and social abilities of each individual. Cornerhouse staff members are constantly engaged in assessing and increasing the comfort level of each individual, preventing additional trauma, and eliciting accurate information. Our interviewers are highly trained, objective, and compassionate professionals who know how to put people at ease. The interviewers use the Cornerhouse forensic interview protocol, an interviewing protocol developed by…
$964,993 spent$702,444 earned by the program44% of program spendingMental health- Cornerhouse's mental health programming is designed to offer children, adolescents, and their caregivers therapeutic support needed to heal after incidents of abuse. Clinicians provide specialized therapy for survivors and witnesses of child abuse in both individual and support group settings. In 2025, our mental health program served 119 clients.
$524,313 spent$97,909 earned by the program24% of program spendingTraining- since 1989, Cornerhouse has been a leader in forensic interviewing, helping shape the field through the development of the Cornerhouse forensic interview protocol (previously known as ratac). With decades of experience and expertise, we provide practicum-based training that equips professionals around the world with evidence-informed best practices for responding to children, youth, and vulnerable adults who disclose abuse or maltreatment. In 2025 Cornerhouse conducted 96 training sessions with 6,627 people trained from minnesota plus 14 other states, and several countries. To date, Cornerhouse has trained more than 50,000 professionals across all 50 u.s. States and more than 20 countries, empowering multidisciplinary professionals to conduct interviews that are person-centered, developmentally appropriate, and grounded in trauma-informed practice.to date, Cornerhouse has trained more than 50,000 professionals across all 50 u.s. States and more than 20 countries, empowering multidisciplinary professionals to conduct interviews that are person-centered, developmentally appropriate, and grounded in trauma-informed practice. As research and best practices continue to…
$338,137 spent$307,181 earned by the program15% of program spendingAdvocacy- the Cornerhouse family services are designed to offer children, adolescents and their caregivers support services they need to stabilize, heal and reconnect after incidents of abuse or trauma. Caregivers are offered ongoing support with short-term case management, legal systems navigation, planning for the safety of the child, and therapeutic service referrals to ensure families have the resources, information and support they need to heal and thrive. Advocates offer referrals for onsite and offsite trauma informed therapy and support groups. In 2025, we served 757 caregivers through our advocacy programming. Services for these families include 1,801 post-forensic interview follow-up contacts, 108 housing/shelter referrals, 244 trauma screenings, 54 columbia trauma screenings, and 517 therapeutic service referrals administered.
$376,642 spent$5,694 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,204,085.
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 2021 to 2022, from $850k to $1.1M (+34%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 15% · 2019 21% · 2020 31% · 2021 27% · 2022 21% · 2023 26% · 2024 33% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of CORNERHOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Christine Shannon
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $70k → $429k.
11 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 CORNERHOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
CORNERHOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
48% 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 CORNERHOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 34% · 2019 34% · 2020 20% · 2021 23% · 2022 29% · 2023 19% — 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
45% of CORNERHOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
76% of CORNERHOUSE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $619k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CORNERHOUSE's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CORNERHOUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record — $19k federal, $1k state.
- Department of Defense$19k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CORNERHOUSE
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CORNERHOUSE: 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 CORNERHOUSE?
- CORNERHOUSE (Minnesota) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,543,428 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($405,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CORNERHOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $2,543,428 in grants to CORNERHOUSE, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORNERHOUSE?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $405,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORNERHOUSE 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.
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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 49 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