ReStore by the Numbers: Your Impact in 2025

Amazing supporters like you make ReStore possible. Our community provides donations, volunteers time, and makes purchases. Take a look back at all ReStore – and YOU – accomplished in 2025. Make sure to scroll to the bottom for details about the Grand Opening for our third store in Brooklyn Park!

Donations

In total, 21,400 donations were dropped off at ReStore or picked up by our drivers last year. Donations from you are what keep ReStore special! Shoppers, volunteers, and staff alike enjoy seeing what comes through, and shoppers visit again and again because there’s always a great treasure to discover. The more donations we get, the more robust our inventory.

If you’re considering donating to ReStore, take a look at our Donation Guidelines before donating. When you’re ready, stop by any ReStore location to drop off your items or schedule a pickup! Don't forget the unique items you can donate: cabinets, doors, flooring, appliances, and paint (we recycle with PaintCare).

Shoppers

In 2025, 86,275 ReStore shoppers made purchases. People shop at ReStore for a variety of reasons. Some are enthusiastic DIYers or home renovators. Some love the great prices and deals. And others shop at ReStore because they want to support Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity’s mission of creating and preserving affordable housing. Whatever reason brings you into one of our locations, we’re grateful!

Environment

Whether you donate to ReStore or you make a purchase, you’re helping divert 6.4 million pounds of materials from landfills. That’s a huge win for the environment! Landfills are big contributors to soil pollution and greenhouse gases, which negatively affect plant and animal life, and the world around us. ReStore accepts a lot of items, but we can't take everything. Check out other Twin Cities donation resources to learn where you can donate items ReStore doesn't accept, such as medical equipment, electronics, and even cars.

Volunteers

More than 12,500 volunteer hours went into running our metro ReStore locations this past year. Some volunteers are regulars who have been helping for years; others are new or sign up for a shift or two a year. No amount of volunteer time is too small, and no volunteer task is too small, either. Volunteers do everything from unloading and sorting a wide assortment of donations to stocking shelves and changing out displays, keeping the stores clean and tidy, ringing at the register, assisting customers, and more. It takes all of us working together to make ReStore a great place to shop and donate.

If you’re interested in volunteering, sign up for a four-hour shift to see if it’s a good fit for you—no experience needed. ReStore shifts are especially nice during the winter months when home construction sites are paused. Oh, and volunteers get a bonus: a 20% discount on their purchase!

Brooklyn Park

Our third location in Brooklyn Park opened in September, with the Grand Opening weekend in October. Since then, we've...

• welcomed 5,285 shoppers

• kept 323,485 pounds of materials from going to the landfill

• received 1,015 donations

• benefitted from 1,760 volunteer hours to get the store ready to open

Thank you to everyone who made this new store happen and all who contributed to a fun, successful Grand Opening!

Mission

Revenue from ReStore directly supports the programs and services of Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, specifically the building of FIVE new homes each year! That’s five quality homes for five households looking to buy their first home. At Habitat and ReStore, we believe the importance of homeownership cannot be overstated. Safe and stable housing has been shown to improve a person’s health and wellbeing, improve education and test scores for children, build home equity and establish generational wealth, and create more robust communities. Thank you for all you do to support ReStore!