Minnesota · Nonprofit
VITA NOVA
VITA NOVA (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,000 to it, the largest being NORTHLAND FOUNDATION ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $82k
- Net assets
- $365k
What Vita Nova does
Mission
Our mission is to provide dignified housing and supportive services to formerly incarcerated individuals. Vita Nova (formerly HFI) owns a triplex in Observation Hill where we provide transitional housing to men with felony backgrounds. Individuals with felony backgrounds struggle to find stable housing, which leads to difficult returning to community, becoming employed, and many other challenges. We also provide Health Realization programming, which supports individuals to reunify with their families, helps them recover from substance use disorders, and provides them with a weekly support group that helps them overcome barriers in their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Transitional housing is provided to men with felony backgrounds who are recently released from incarceration. Residents are provided with a structured environment with rules that generally align with the conditions of their probation or parole, including no drug or alcohol use, curfew, and employment requirements. Residents are provided with case management, support to attain employment, and other services through other nonprofits with which Vita Nova partners. In fiscal year 2024-25 we provided transitional housing to seven residents at our triplex. All of them were employed soon after release, and one moved on to his own apartment in spring 2025.
$33,081 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $33,081.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $346k to $369k (+7%).
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: 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of VITA NOVA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 VITA NOVA’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
VITA NOVA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 VITA NOVA.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of VITA NOVA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
VITA NOVA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like VITA NOVA
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.
Public support
94%
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 VITA NOVA: 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 VITA NOVA?
- VITA NOVA (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,000 to it, the largest being NORTHLAND FOUNDATION ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VITA NOVA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $82,000 in grants to VITA NOVA.
- Who is the largest funder of VITA NOVA?
- NORTHLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VITA NOVA 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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