As food and housing insecurity continues to rise, Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless ensures that crisis service providers throughout the state have the tools, infrastructure and resources necessary to serve those most in need. We listen closely to the challenges faced by the organizations we serve, supporting programs in communities large and small who rarely receive support from larger metro based or statewide funders.

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Gift Examples

• $3 per pay period helps provide soft bedding and clean towels for a woman escaping domestic violence — offering comfort and dignity during a time of crisis.
• $5 per pay period helps stock food shelves with fresh fruits and vegetables during the toughest summer months, giving hungry families access to nourishing meals.
• $10 per pay period helps equip homeless youth with critical winter survival gear — warmth and protection for those living outside with nowhere else to turn.
• $20 per pay period helps furnish emergency shelter spaces with bed frames, mattresses, and cozy bedding, creating safe havens for families rebuilding after homelessness.

Designation Policy

DOES NOT ACCEPT DESIGNATIONS - Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless does not accept designations to specific agencies. By keeping funds undesignated, Open Your Heart can support agencies most in need throughout the year. This enables us to keep our administrative costs low.

Administration Fee

10%

Primary Region

Northcentral, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest, Metro

Affiliates

• 2024 Grant Partners
• Advocates Against Domestic Abuse (DBA HOPE - Healing Opportunity Provided Equally)
• Agate Housing and Services
• Alexandra House, Inc.
• Align Minneapolis (fiscal agent Central Lutheran Church)
• Anna Marie's Alliance
• Appetite For Change
• At Home Group, Inc. (DBA Small Sums)
• Avenues for Youth
• Bi-County Community Action Programs, Inc.
• Bountiful Basket Food Shelf
• Bridgepointe community church food shelf
• Bridges of Hope
• Bridging
• Community Bridge
• Community Emergency Service (CES)
• Community Pathways of Steele County
• Compassion Ministries (DBA The CHAP Store)
• Connections to Independence
• CROSS Services
• Damiano of Duluth, Inc.
• Elpis Enterprises
• Face to Face Health & Counseling Service, Inc.
• Family Promise Rochester
• Family Values for Life
• Feeding Our Communities Partners
• Grace House of Itasca County
• Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches
• Hamline Midway Coalition
• Heading Home Funders Collaborative
• HOPE 4 Youth
• Hope and Harbor
• HOPE Coalition
• Hospitality House of Owatonna, Inc.
• Intercongregation Communities Association
• Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul
• Intermediate District 287
• Kulture Klub Collaborative
• Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Homeless Services Programs
• Life House, Inc.
• Mankato Youth Place
• Merrick Community Services
• Minneapolis College
• MN Coalition for the Homeless
• Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center
• Mobile Loaves Twin Cities
• My Neighbor to Love Coalition
• Neighbors, Inc.
• New Creation Baptist Church
• Oasis for Youth
• Oasis for Youth
• Open Cupboard
• Open Doors for Youth
• People Incorporated
• Prince of Peace Lutheran Church
• Relationship Safety Alliance
• Rivers of Hope
• Ruth's House of Hope
• Sojourner Project
• South Central Human Relation Center- PATH outreach
• South St. Paul Community Education
• Southern Anoka Community Assistance (SACA)
• Southern Valley Alliance
• St. Andrew's Community Resource Center
• St. Anne's Place - People Service People
• Stepping Stone Emergency Housing
• The Aliveness Project
• The Bridge for Youth
• The Drawer
• The Food Group
• The Landing MN
• The Link
• The Open Door
• The Outreach Program of Brainerd Lakes
• The Real Minneapolis
• The Salvation Army Northern Division
• Tower Area Food Shelf
• Union Gospel Mission Twin Cities
• Walker Area Food Shelf, Inc.
• Wildflyer Coffee
• YouthLink
• Youthway Ministries
• zAmya Theater Project 2025 Grant Partners

Contact

Jessica Mathias
612-338-5577
jmathias@oyh.org