Minnesota · Nonprofit
OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION
OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,462,182 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($544,350). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $664k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $563k
What Open Hands Foundation does
Mission
We offer love, dignity and hope by meeting critical needs of people in our community. Currently our only program is hope house, a youth crisis and counseling shelter.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
We continued an expansion project for hope house through the construction of a new building to better serve youth experiencing homelessness. Construction will take place in the next fiscal year.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
See sch o.hope house is a youth crisis and counseling shelter provided by the organization through a partnership with 180 degrees (program service provider) and westwood community church. The shelter provides safe, stable and supportive emergency housing and counseling. Specifically, it provides: 6 beds for youth in crisis ages 14-19; 24hr/ 7days a week crisis shelter; counseling for youth, parents and family; dedicated professional staff; no cost for services; and a first call for law enforcement, schools, community organizations, healthcare providers, and families in crisis. Youth/family impact: since opening in 2015, 4,606 impacted youth: with 870 youth making overnight stays, and 3,736 inquiries have been handled through calls or texts for help. Housing stability (our goal is to have kids back in a safe/stable environment): in august 2024 - july 2025, 92% of the youth achieved this goal at exit after an average of 22 days in the shelter. In aug'24 - jul'25, 731 youth were impacted, with 83 making overnight stays. Hope house benefits teens and their families, as well as the broader community, including schools, hospitals, and law enforcement, by providing emergency shelter…
$1,214,944 spentof which $1,037,178 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,214,944.
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 2023 to 2024, from $428k to $1.4M (+230%).
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.
94% of OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Rodney Provart
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Moore
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $48k → $146k.
9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
71% 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 OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 27% · 2019 22% · 2020 36% · 2021 22% · 2022 19% · 2023 20% — 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
65% of OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION'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
65% of OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $519k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $943k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Westwood Community Chruch · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION: 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 OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION?
- OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,462,182 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($544,350). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,462,182 in grants to OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $544,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION 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 31 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing