Minnesota

State programs

31

Local offices

2,934

Nonprofits

33

Food sites

46

Services by kind of help

• Housing958
• Education884
• Legal help534
• Money263
• Care254
• Food209
• Work186
• Health182
• Safety119
• Other88

• We read official pages and trusted lists: county and city websites, state agencies, Feeding America, the Legal Services Corporation and community action networks.
• A research file counts only when it passes the same checks it must pass to reach Front Door. A file with a problem waits until it is fixed.
• Every service and organization names the page it came from and the day we read it.
• We rebuild the files with every release of Front Door. The API reads only these files, never our live database.

Each HSDS table, how many rows it has, and the fields we fill in. The free sample has the same fields.

• organizations3,006 rows, 362 in the sample

  id, name, alternate_name, description, website

• services3,677 rows, 368 in the sample

  id, organization_id, name, alternate_name, description, url, status, application_process, eligibility_description, assured_date

• locations2,693 rows, 317 in the sample

  id, location_type, organization_id, name, description, latitude, longitude

• service_at_locations3,301 rows, 323 in the sample

  id, service_id, location_id

• phones6,261 rows, 688 in the sample

  id, number, extension, service_id, location_id, organization_id

• schedules152 rows, 5 in the sample

  id, service_id, location_id, freq, byday, opens_at, closes_at, description, notes

• addresses2,659 rows, 315 in the sample

  id, location_id, address_1, city, state_province, postal_code, country, address_type

• service_areas4,160 rows, 438 in the sample

  id, service_id, name, description

• languages0 rows, 0 in the sample

  id, service_id, name

• taxonomies3 rows, 3 in the sample

  id, name, description, uri, version

• taxonomy_terms35 rows, 35 in the sample

  id, code, name, description, taxonomy, taxonomy_id

• attributes26,390 rows, 2,826 in the sample

  id, link_id, link_type, link_entity, taxonomy_term_id, value

• Changes made by organizations that claimed their listing, and links we fixed after a check, reach these files later.
• Hours are listed for food sites. For offices and programs, call or check the source page.
• The API has no full-text search, ZIP code or distance filters yet. The files cover bulk use.

Please credit Front Door and say which release you used.

Front Door (localcarehub.org). Human services in Minnesota, HSDS 3.3.1, release 2026-10-10. CC BY 4.0. https://localcarehub.org/open-data/minnesota

@misc{frontdoor_hsds_mn_20261010,
  author = {{Front Door}},
  title = {Human services in Minnesota, HSDS 3.3.1, release 2026-10-10},
  year = {2026},
  note = {HSDS 3.3.1. CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://localcarehub.org/open-data/minnesota}
}

Our own research is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: the offices, the state programs, the descriptions we write and how we match records to kinds of help. Records from public sources keep their source's terms, and each one names its source. Check the source before you rely on a record.