Minnesota · Nonprofit
Solid Ground
Solid Ground (Minnesota) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,762,108 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($2,595,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $9.8M
- Net assets
- $8.3M
What Solid Ground does
Mission
The mission of Solid Ground is to prevent and end homelessness for families with children in the communities we serve through housing, resources and opportunity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Prevention Assistance for unstably housed families expanded significantly in 2024. Solid Ground's prevention team provides assistance with unpaid rent and utilities to help families avoid eviction, as well as security deposits and first month's rent for families to access more affordable housing. Prevention Assistance served 353 families with children in 2024.
$1,451,702 spentof which $1,261,880 as grants35% of program spendingEast Metro Place I and East Metro Place II provide 34 units of transitional and permanent supportive housing in White Bear Lake for families experiencing homelessness. Permanent units are designated for families with disabilities and/or histories of long-term homelessness. Parents receive a variety of services, including budgeting, tenant training, employment assistance, mental/chemical health support and parenting skills. Children receive assistance with school and early learning enrollment, after-school tutoring, summer camp and recreational activities. East Metro Place housed 204 adults and children in 2024.
$1,463,730 spentof which $14,137 as grants$803,874 earned by the program35% of program spendingHomeAgain and HomeSafe provide scattered-site, time-limited housing for families experiencing homelessness in Washington and Ramsey Counties. Solid Ground partners with landlords in the community to provide housing and helps with security deposits and rental assistance paid directly to landlords to make the housing more affordable. Families receive in-home services and monthly rent assistance for 6-36 months while they stabilize and work to increase their income. The HomeAgain and HomeSafe programs served 111 adults and children in 2024 with housing and housing search services.
$575,280 spentof which $235,380 as grants14% of program spendingHomework Starts with Home (HSWH) provides prevention assistance and rehousing services to help prevent and end homelessness for families with pre-K-12 grade students in suburban Ramsey and Washington County school districts. Families receive financial assistance to make housing more affordable and services to help them achieve stability and work toward independent housing. Children receive academic and other support to help them achieve school success. HSWH provided 195 adults and children with scattered-site rehousing, prevention assistance and housing stabilization services in 2024.HomeFront provides 10 units of permanent supportive housing for military veterans and their families who have experienced long-term homelessness. Residents receive income-based rental assistance and in-home supportive services designed to help them achieve housing stability, improve their health and increase their income. HomeFront housed 38 adults and children in 2024.Welcome Home Washington launched in late 2023 to provide scattered-site, permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless families headed by an adult with a disability. Familes will receive income-based rental assistance and…
$713,043 spentof which $141,878 as grants$22,526 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,203,755.
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 $4.9M to $8.2M (+66%).
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 20% · 2018 26% · 2019 30% · 2020 18% · 2021 21% · 2022 23% · 2023 37% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Solid Ground’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. 0 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
Renae Oswald-Anderson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $167k → $1.3M.
16 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Solid Ground’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
Solid Ground has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
31% 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 Solid Ground.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 21% · 2019 23% · 2020 15% · 2021 13% · 2022 28% · 2023 30% — 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
60% of Solid Ground's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
91% of Solid Ground's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
Solid Ground runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Solid Ground receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.6M
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 Solid Ground
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Solid Ground: 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 Solid Ground?
- Solid Ground (Minnesota) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,762,108 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($2,595,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Solid Ground have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $9,762,108 in grants to Solid Ground, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Solid Ground?
- Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,595,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Solid Ground 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 67 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