Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION
THE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,490,437 to it, the largest being MG MEZZANOTTE FOUNDATION ($600,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $16M
What The Sheltering Arms Foundation does
Mission
"The Sheltering Arms Foundation invests in the lives of minnesotas children to help them reach their full potential. The foundation funds not-for-profit organizations and supports policies that benefit children and their families who have the least access to resources."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Sheltering Arms Foundation (saf) provided grants and supporting services to 73 organizations, which provided services to and/or promoted the welfare of disadvantaged children in the state of minnesota. In addition, the foundation takes leadership in organizing other not-for- profit organizations with similar goals. The purpose of collaboration is to educate each other, legislators and the public on the need for early childhood education and the importance of high quality and culturally appropriate out-of-school time activities.
$749,342 spentof which $599,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $749,342.
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.
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 $18M to $14M (−20%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $93k → $111k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 62% · 2019 61% · 2020 47% · 2021 51% · 2022 46% · 2023 45% — 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
50% of THE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION'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
THE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like THE SHELTERING ARMS 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Episcopal Church of Minnesota · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SHELTERING ARMS 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 THE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION?
- THE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,490,437 to it, the largest being MG MEZZANOTTE FOUNDATION ($600,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,490,437 in grants to THE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION?
- MG MEZZANOTTE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SHELTERING ARMS 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 13 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