Minnesota · Nonprofit
HEARTH CONNECTION
HEARTH CONNECTION (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $825,186 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HEARTH CONNECTION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 817 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The James M Stanton Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Target Foundationshared funders
- Tchfh Lending Incportfolio match
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.
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 87% · 2018 86% · 2019 87% · 2020 87% · 2021 87% · 2022 89% · 2023 85% · 2024 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of HEARTH CONNECTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (12% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $86k → $290k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 HEARTH CONNECTION’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
HEARTH CONNECTION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 HEARTH CONNECTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 58% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
70% of HEARTH CONNECTION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The James M Stanton Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMN · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Target Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 92 organizations that share your funders
- Tchfh Lending Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Midwest Minnesota Community Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Front Porch Investmentsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Avocet Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wright-Hennepin Electric Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shavlik Family Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ordean Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sheltering Arms Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Allina Health Systemshared fundersMN · backs 66 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding HEARTH CONNECTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $43.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$43.6M
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 HEARTH CONNECTION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 HEARTH CONNECTION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HEARTH CONNECTION?
- HEARTH CONNECTION (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $825,186 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEARTH CONNECTION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $825,186 in grants to HEARTH CONNECTION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEARTH CONNECTION?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEARTH CONNECTION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing