Minnesota · Nonprofit
SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN
SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN (Minnesota) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,789,502 to it, the largest being ORDEAN FOUNDATION ($430,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women does
Mission
Provide safety, space to heal, advocacy, and empowerment for women, children and all survivors of domestic violence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Safe haven's shelter program supported 559 unduplicated survivors of domestic violence in meeting their basic needs for safety, food, shelter, and clothing, as well as provided assistance and advocacy for all shelter guests seeking employment, housing, higher education and emotional support. Advocates provided care and one-on-one emotional support to 210 unduplicated children of survivors in addition to meeting their basic needs for food, shelter and clothing.
$1,605,165 spentof which $20,354 as grants73% of program spendingSafe haven's resource center offers wrap-around, collaborative support services for victims of domestic violence. In the most recent fiscal year this program served 1,260 individuals. The legal advocacy department housed at the resource center served 872 victims of domestic violence by providing assistance with orders for protection, harassment orders, safety planning, resources and advocacy as they asserted their rights in civil and criminal court.
$512,864 spent23% of program spendingSafe haven's youth program is designed to improve the lives of children who have experienced domestic violence either as a primary or secondary victim. It consists of three main parts: youth support group, mentoring, and summer camp. Healing activities include art therapy, yoga, along with trust- building team exercises, stress relief, and learning about mindfulness. 466 youth participated in this program in the most recently completed fiscal year.
$88,100 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,206,129.
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 $4.2M to $5.5M (+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: 2017 83% · 2018 82% · 2019 83% · 2021 83% · 2022 73% · 2023 72% · 2024 74% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Deb Mitchell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $49k → $241k.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 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
SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
28% 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 SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 97% · 2019 60% · 2020 37% · 2021 76% · 2022 46% · 2023 33% — 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
29% of SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k 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
SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN
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
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: 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 SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN?
- SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN (Minnesota) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,789,502 to it, the largest being ORDEAN FOUNDATION ($430,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,789,502 in grants to SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN?
- ORDEAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN 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 30 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