Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE OPEN DOOR
THE OPEN DOOR (Minnesota) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,330,486 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($698,727). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What The Open Door does
Mission
The Open Door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. The Open Door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious food to over 17,000 people each month, including working families, seniors, and children.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Open Door is a hunger-relief organization which benefits low-income, food-insecure individuals and families who live in dakota county and surrounding areas. Through 2025 we accomplished: 1. Providing safe and reliable access to healthy, nutritionally dense food to more than 23,000 individuals each month.2. Facilitating weekly large-scale produce distributions serving as many as 4,400 people at a single distribution. 3. Delivering over 27,000 lunches to children throughout the summer.4. Helping food-shelf clients plant, grow, harvest and prepare their own fresh produce. Churches, schools and businesses provided more than 300 adoptable plots at 13 local garden sites.
$12,790,079 spentof which $11,009,920 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,790,079.
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 $2.5M to $5.2M (+109%).
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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of THE OPEN DOOR’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Jason Viana
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $32k → $800k.
15 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 OPEN DOOR’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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 OPEN DOOR has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
75% 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 OPEN DOOR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 54% · 2019 32% · 2020 25% · 2021 21% · 2022 16% · 2023 18% — 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
44% of THE OPEN DOOR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
54% of THE OPEN DOOR'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 $2.0M that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M 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
THE OPEN DOOR has grown faster than three-quarters of the 268 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 268 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like THE OPEN DOOR
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE OPEN DOOR: 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 THE OPEN DOOR?
- THE OPEN DOOR (Minnesota) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,330,486 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($698,727). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE OPEN DOOR have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $4,330,486 in grants to THE OPEN DOOR, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE OPEN DOOR?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $698,727 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE OPEN DOOR 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 66 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