Minnesota · Nonprofit
Hammer Residences Inc
Hammer Residences Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,814,369 to it, the largest being MITHUN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($877,500). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $46M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Hammer Residences Inc does
Mission
To provide people with intellectual and other disabilities the opportunity to experience life to its fullest.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential Services: Hammer provides a holistic and person-centered approach to residential and support services for people with intellectual and other disabilities. Each individual living at Hammer is encouraged to uncover what living life to its fullest means to them. Hammer programs are designed to meet the physical well-being, psychological, social, spiritual, educational, and recreational needs of each person we support. Our full-time nurses provide oversight to each person's health care needs. Hammer partners with each individual and his/her family to create a life experience that is fulfilling and meaningful.
$36,020,475 spent$38,149,520 earned by the program90% of program spendingCase Management/Care Coordination:Hammer provides case management services through a contract with Hennepin County, Hammer provides case management services to people throughout the state. Hammer case managers provide support in accessing and coordinating services for individuals. Hammer also has managed care contracts under which we provide care coordination of the individual's health services.
$3,172,157 spent$3,317,350 earned by the program8% of program spendingTravel Program:Hammer has developed an expansion in its mission which provides travel experiences for people with disabilities. This service helps with the planning and coordination of travel arrangements for the disabled individual. These experiences help develop the individual's living skills. The offerings teach independence, travel abilities, management of circumstances and life experiences for both the disabled individual as well as the care giver. This helps develop life skills. The service is provided by Hammer Travel, LLC which is a single member LLC in whichHammer Residences is the sole member.
$815,997 spent$850,860 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,008,629.
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 $27M to $36M (+32%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of Hammer Residences Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
John Estrem
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $147k → $613k.
16 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Hammer Residences Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
Hammer Residences Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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 Hammer Residences Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 16% · 2019 21% · 2020 25% · 2021 45% · 2022 41% · 2023 20% — broadly stable.
“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
59% of Hammer Residences Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
83% of Hammer Residences Inc's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
Hammer Residences Inc has grown faster than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Hammer Residences Inc
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hammer Travel LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hammer Residences Inc: 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 Hammer Residences Inc?
- Hammer Residences Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,814,369 to it, the largest being MITHUN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($877,500). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hammer Residences Inc have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $4,814,369 in grants to Hammer Residences Inc, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hammer Residences Inc?
- MITHUN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $877,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hammer Residences Inc 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 59 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