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· Public charity

Capital Area United Way

Receiving and distributing charitable donations to local agencies

$364k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.2MHuman Services$683kYouth Development$525kFood & Nutrition$484kEmployment$284kEducation$96kPublic Safety & Disaster$90kArts & Culture$78k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $339,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $364,125 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,625 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $263k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$28,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$957k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICES$50,000
COMMUNITY YOU & INVOLVED CENTER$44,000
PIERRE AREA REFERRAL SERVICE$39,000
MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER$38,000
CENTRAL SD CHILD ASSESSMENT CENTER$36,000
OAHE YMCA$34,000
THE RIGHT TURN$28,000
GROWING UP TOGETHER$18,000
SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER$15,000
OAHE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$11,000
SD DISCOVERY CENTER$8,000
GOVERNOR GROCERY$6,500
OAHE CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS$6,000
FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $791k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $45k → 10%OAHE YMCA: $45k → 10%OAHE YMCA: $43k → 10%OAHE YMCA: $43k → 10%OAHE YMCA: $43k → 10%OAHE YMCA: $41k → 10%OAHE YMCA: $39k → 10%OAHE YMCA: $39k → 10%MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $39k → 10%MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE C: $39k → 10%MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $38k → 10%MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $38k → 10%MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $38k → 10%MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $38k → 10%MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE C: $36k → 10%OAHE YMCA: $34k → 10%MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $33k → 10%OAHE YMCA: $31k → 10%OAHE CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 10%OAHE CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 10%OAHE CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 10%OAHE CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 10%OAHE CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 10%OAHE CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 10%OAHE CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 10%OAHE CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 10%OAHE CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 17 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
1

Total granted

$3.4M
$7k

Still filing today

76%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEmploymentFood & NutritionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $634k · revenue +39%
  • OY
    OAHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $358k · revenue +116%
  • MS
    MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $343k · revenue +597%

Funded once

  • GG
    GOVERNOR GROCERY
    one grant, 2025 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Health Connect of South Dakota Inc

Independent source of free health information for indivduals, familes and communities.

Education
2
Compass Pointe

Provide counseling and education for the prevention of alcohol and drug related problems to the residents of northwest iowa.

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3
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
4
Sioux Empire Triage Center

Empowering individuals to seek care and providing a link to services that will help them thrive as they address the challenges of living with mental health and/or substance use disorder issues.

Health
5
Peoples Family Health Services Inc

Provide family health information to eighteen counties in west central nebraska and wic services to fifteen counties in west central nebraska

Health
6
Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…

Human Services
7
Corporate Care of the Sioux Empire

Corporate Care strategizes with workplace leadership to foster an environment of mutual care and service both inside and outside the workplace. Corporate Care provides short-term, on-site pastoral counseling to employees who wish to use…

Religion
8
Children's Home Society of South Dakota

Children's home society of south dakota is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing trauma-informed services to children and families impacted by abuse, neglect, domestic violence, and mental health challenges. our mission is to…

Human Services
9
Greater Sioux Community Health Center Inc

The mission of promise community health center is to provide accessible, holistic health care that adapts to the needs of the community to improve the wellbeing of all persons.

Health
10
North Dakota Federation of Families for Childrens Mental Health

Children's mental health

Health
11
Ywca of Fort Dodge Ia

We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.

—
12
South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services Inc

The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oahe Child Development Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Right Turn Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC: $634,000 · HealthCAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINCAvera St Mary's: $298,500 · HealthAvera St Mary'sGROWING UP TOGETHER: $195,500 · HealthGROWING UP TOGETHERCOMMUNITY & YOUTH INVOLVED INC: $380,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY & YOUTH INVOLVED INCSIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $167,100 · OtherSIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERI…CITIZENS INVOLVEMENT COUNCIL: $167,000 · OtherCITIZENS INVOLVEMENT COUNCILSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER: $90,500 · OtherSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTERSD DISCOVERY CENTER: $77,650 · OtherSD DISCOVERY CENTERAVERA ST MARY'S FOUNDATION: $66,500 · OtherAVERA ST MARY'S FOUNDATION+3 more: $50,830 · OtherOAHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $357,500 · Human ServicesOAHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN…MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $343,000 · Human ServicesMISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC V…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $90,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cros…The Right Turn Inc: $283,900 · EmploymentThe Right…FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $97,200 · Food & NutritionOAHE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $96,065 · Education
Health$1,128,000Other$999,580Human Services$790,500Employment$283,900Food & Nutrition$97,200Education$96,065

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC: $634,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY & YOUTH INVOLVED INC: $380,000 over 9y, 25% of budgetOAHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $357,500 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetMISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $343,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetAvera St Mary's: $298,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Right Turn Inc: $283,900 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetGROWING UP TOGETHER: $195,500 over 9y, 29% of budgetSIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $167,100 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetCITIZENS INVOLVEMENT COUNCIL: $167,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $97,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOAHE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $96,065 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA URBAN INDIAN HEALTH INC: $28,580 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOAHE INC: $15,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY & YOUTH INVOLVED INC ↗
  • Who funds OAHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Avera St Mary's ↗
  • Who funds The Right Turn Inc ↗
  • Who funds GROWING UP TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS INVOLVEMENT COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds OAHE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA URBAN INDIAN HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds OAHE INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Oahe FoundationSouth Dakota Communit…Avera HealthDelta Dental of South…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Oahe FoundationSD24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oahe Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Avera Health · Delta Dental of South Dakota · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Capital Area United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Capital Area United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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