Minnesota · Nonprofit
The Dwelling Place
The Dwelling Place (Minnesota) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,153,515 to it, the largest being BRANCHES FOUNDATION ($1,058,267). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What The Dwelling Place does
Mission
The Dwelling Place is a Christ-centered ministry providing healing and hope to victims of domestic abuse through supportive services and a safe, transitional place to call home.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transitional Housing - The Organization operates ten single-family homes that provide transitional housing for women and children fleeing domestic abuse. Residents typically remain in the program for two years while they recover from trauma and develop the skills necessary to achieve independent housing, sustainable income, and lives free from abuse. The homes are located in residential neighborhoods, and their locations are kept confidential to protect the safety of the women and children served. The properties include 40 bedrooms and can accommodate up to 80 individuals. The homes are furnished, well maintained, and equipped with security systems. In 2025, the Organization housed and served 24 women and 34 children, ranging in age from 8 months to 17 years. A total of 58 women and children received 12,645 nights of safe housing. The Organization also received 660 calls for assistance involving 589 children affected by domestic abuse. Women who completed the program successfully separated from abusive relationships.
$435,483 spent31% of program spendingCommunity Education - The Organization provides trauma-informed care focused on two primary principles: safety and empowerment. With more than 27 years of experience serving victims of domestic abuse, the Organization integrates best practices in trauma-informed care within a Christ-centered environment. The Organization provides a comprehensive program of support services for residents, including intensive case management, support groups, education on domestic abuse, financial literacy and budgeting classes, parenting education, music, art and talk therapy, and instruction on meal planning and nutrition on a limited budget. Bible study and Christian spiritual support are also available. The Organization collaborates with community partners to provide additional resources, including employment counseling, therapy services, and assistance with securing affordable housing.
$141,179 spent10% of program spendingResidential Program- Because all of the residents are single mothers, the Organization also provides programming and support services for their children. Children residing in the homes receive case management, access to mental and behavioral health services, individual trauma therapy, and age-appropriate educational support. Mothers in the program receive individualized parenting support and education designed to help them meet the developmental and emotional needs of their children and access appropriate community services. The Children's Program focuses on promoting healing from trauma and supporting development in social, emotional, and cognitive skills, while strengthening the relationship between mothers and their children. The children are also offered one-on-one tutoring, and specialized kid's support group after school.
$762,433 spentof which $1,525 as grants$18,491 earned by the program53% of program spendingAlumni Program - The Organization maintains an Alumni Program to support residents who have transitioned out of the residential program and to monitor long-term outcomes. The program provides continued support through mentorship, monthly case management, support groups, and periodic community-building activities.
$88,484 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,427,579.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.3M to $4.1M (+79%).
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: 2018 2% · 2020 21% · 2021 4% · 2022 4% · 2023 16% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of The Dwelling Place’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Jenna Perez
Executive Director
Board chair
Alexandra Bartolic
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $230k → $361k.
15 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 The Dwelling Place’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
The Dwelling Place has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
33% 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 The Dwelling Place.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 44% · 2019 28% · 2020 31% · 2021 24% · 2022 28% · 2023 28% — 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
54% of The Dwelling Place's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
The Dwelling Place draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $992k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
The Dwelling Place runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Dwelling Place
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Northmetro Housing LLC · disregarded
- Moundsview Professional Properties LLC · disregarded
- Willow Child Development Center LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Dwelling Place: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Dwelling Place?
- The Dwelling Place (Minnesota) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,153,515 to it, the largest being BRANCHES FOUNDATION ($1,058,267). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Dwelling Place have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $3,153,515 in grants to The Dwelling Place, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Dwelling Place?
- BRANCHES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,058,267 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Dwelling Place 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.
Play a game about who funds Dwelling Place →
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 55 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