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HOME LINE

HOME LINE (Minnesota) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,643,141 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.6M
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$3.6M
Net assets
$532k
14/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 50%
01What it does

What Home Line does

Mission

To improve public and private policies relating to rental housing by involving affected tenants in the process.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided legal, organizing, education, and advocacy services so that tenants throughout minnesota can solve their own rental housing problems.

    $1,511,488 spent$9,318 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,511,488.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($699k) Expenses 100 ($699k) Net assets 100 ($528k)2018 Revenue 134 ($936k) Expenses 110 ($772k) Net assets 131 ($692k)2019 Revenue 119 ($829k) Expenses 126 ($882k) Net assets 121 ($640k)2020 Revenue 191 ($1.3M) Expenses 139 ($970k) Net assets 190 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 165 ($1.2M) Expenses 172 ($1.2M) Net assets 181 ($954k)2022 Revenue 172 ($1.2M) Expenses 222 ($1.6M) Net assets 109 ($577k)2023 Revenue 239 ($1.7M) Expenses 236 ($1.7M) Net assets 129 ($680k)2024 Revenue 224 ($1.6M) Expenses 245 ($1.7M) Net assets 101 ($532k)
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Revenue (224)Expenses (245)Net assets (101)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $719k to $1.1M (+50%).

$583k
$768k
$719k
$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.1M
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 59% · 2018 46% · 2019 52% · 2020 45% · 2021 49% · 2022 51% · 2023 41% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of HOME LINE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

−$139
’17
$164k
’18
−$53k
’19
$364k
’20
−$49k
’21
−$355k
’22
$16k
’23
−$147k
’24
2.3
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.

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Listed798101010106
Joined·+5+0+2+0+0+2+0
No longer listed·3100024
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $52k → $830k.

6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 HOME LINE’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

HOME LINE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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

35% 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 HOME LINE.

27%
largest funder
52%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 62% · 2019 39% · 2020 32% · 2021 44% · 2022 26% · 2023 24% — 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

47% of HOME LINE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

100% of HOME LINE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

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

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’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $359k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Against its field

HOME LINE has grown faster than half of the 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding HOME LINE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $249k on record.

Federal$249k
grants $249kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$249k

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 HOME LINE

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

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOME LINE: 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 HOME LINE?
HOME LINE (Minnesota) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,643,141 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOME LINE have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,643,141 in grants to HOME LINE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOME LINE?
The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOME LINE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing