Minneapolis, MN

Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

EIN 36-3488089

Housing, Food & Basic Needs Shelter & Homelessness Services People experiencing homelessness Low-income

Mission

Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless partners with frontline agencies across Minnesota to ensure Minnesotans have access to food, shelter, and basic necessities—working to ensure every Minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

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About Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless is a Minnesota-based grantmaking organization (EIN 36-3488089) that funds and strengthens food shelves, emergency shelters, outreach programs, and related frontline services across the state. The foundation operates targeted grant programs—including Community Impact Grants, the Summer Challenge, Special Projects, and student scholarships—to address urgent infrastructure and basic-needs gaps for people experiencing food and housing insecurity.

The organization is donor-facing and actively publishes annual reports, Form 990s, and financial statements. In recent years OYH has emphasized rapid-response emergency funding (including during the COVID-19 pandemic), statewide matching campaigns for food shelves during summer months, and ongoing small-to-midsize grants designed to produce quick, tangible improvements in shelter and food-shelf capacity. It maintains a small staff supported by a working board of directors and distributes grants statewide, prioritizing organizations with limited fundraising capacity.

Notable achievements

40th Anniversary & $21M+ Distributed

Celebrating four decades in 2026, Open Your Heart has provided more than $21 million in grant funding since its founding in 1986, supporting food shelves and emergency shelters across Minnesota.

2023 Impact — Broad Reach and Scholarships

In 2023 OYH reported supporting 73 front-line grantee partners, awarding scholarships to students with lived experience of homelessness, and supporting more than 100 food shelves through its Summer Challenge which helped leverage over $2 million in additional local donations.

Rapid Emergency Response & Consistent Grantmaking

OYH activated emergency funding during the COVID-19 crisis to preserve shelter and food-shelf capacity and continues frequent, targeted grant cycles (Community Impact Grants, Summer Challenge, Special Projects) with an average Community Impact Grant size of roughly $7,000 to meet immediate, practical needs.

At a glance

Total assets: $559K
Annual revenue: $663K
Tax status: 501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN: 36-3488089
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Website: oyh.org
On Mahalo since: May 2026

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

Recognition

Rated on Charity Navigator (Three-Star profile, overall score reported at 89%) with positive accountability and finance indicators.

Publishes Form 990s, annual reports, and financial statements on its website; financial statements are available as compiled/reviewed documents, demonstrating transparency of financial reporting.

Included in statewide and nonprofit directories and workplace giving lists (Minnesota combined-charities and GiveMN listings), and profiled in nonprofit data services (ProPublica/CauseIQ), reflecting established presence and recognition in the Minnesota nonprofit sector.

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