What share of Minnesota Medicaid, SNAP, and TANF recipients are foreign-born versus native-born, by year?

1. What the question seeks and why the available reporting falls short

The user requests annual percentages of program participants in Minnesota who are foreign‑born versus native‑born for three programs, but the documents provided include program totals, program fact sheets and national demographic reports rather than a Minnesota nativity time series; Minnesota’s Department of Human Services reports program enrollment totals (Medicaid ~1.3 million served) but does not publish the requested breakdown in the linked “by the numbers” summary ^[1], and the federal TANF data portal cited contains many state tables but the snippets do not show a Minnesota nativity series for Medicaid, SNAP or TANF ^[3].

2. SNAP: state totals exist, national nativity patterns are known, state nativity by year is not in these sources

Reliable counts of SNAP participation in Minnesota are available — roughly 440,000–454,000 people were getting SNAP in recent reporting cited here ^{[2] [6]} — and USDA and advocacy summaries show that at the national level most SNAP recipients are U.S.‑born citizens and that racial/ethnic breakdowns are provided nationally ^{[5] [7] [4]}; however, none of the Minnesota fact sheets and reports in the assembled sources publish the share of Minnesota SNAP recipients who are foreign‑born versus native‑born by year, so the precise state nativity percentages by year cannot be reported from these materials ^{[8] [9]}.

3. Medicaid/Medical Assistance: enrollment scale is published, but nativity splits are not in the cited DHS materials

Minnesota’s Medical Assistance (Medicaid) and MinnesotaCare together serve about 1.3 million people and are described as covering roughly one in four Minnesotans in the DHS “by the numbers” overview ^[1], but the DHS summary and linked materials in the provided set do not include an annual foreign‑born versus native‑born breakdown for Medicaid enrollees; therefore the requested year‑by‑year nativity shares for Medicaid cannot be derived from the supplied sources ^{[1] [9]}.

4. TANF: federal TANF tables exist but the provided ACF snippets don’t give Minnesota nativity series

The Administration for Children and Families maintains state TANF data tables and characteristics reports ^[3], and Minnesota participates in federal data projects that could contain demographic details ^[9], but the specific snippets provided do not contain nativity percentages for Minnesota TANF recipients by year; without extracting or locating the detailed ACF state tables or Minnesota‑level research files, the share foreign‑born versus native‑born on TANF by year cannot be stated from these sources ^{[3] [9]}.

5. How researchers can obtain the requested year‑by‑year nativity shares (next steps based on the sources)

To assemble the requested series one would need to combine Minnesota administrative data with federal survey or program quality‑control files: obtain Minnesota DHS or DCYF microdata or dashboards that break down enrollment by nativity (the DHS/DCYF research pages and state SNAP/TANF dashboards are the logical starting point) and/or request the state cross‑tabulations from the ACF TANF data office and USDA SNAP characteristics tables; the sources here point to those repositories but do not themselves contain the year‑by‑year nativity shares needed ^{[9] [3] [8]}.

6. Bottom line

The reporting assembled provides authoritative program totals for Minnesota and strong national evidence that most SNAP recipients are U.S.‑born ^{[1] [2] [6] [4] [5]}, but it does not include the specific, by‑year shares of Minnesota Medicaid, SNAP, and TANF recipients who are foreign‑born versus native‑born; producing that exact time series requires accessing Minnesota DHS/DCYF microdata or detailed federal state tables referenced but not reproduced in the provided sources ^{[9] [3]}.