· Public charity
Greater Mankato Area United Way Inc
To unite the community to secure and invest resources to improve people's lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $451k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $259k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANKATO COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND REC | $258,972 |
| YOUNG MENS CITIZENS CHRISTIAN ASSN | $237,873 |
| VINE FAITH IN ACTION | $161,891 |
| YOUNG WOMEN CITIZENS CHRISTAIN ASSN | $147,442 |
| PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING | $132,698 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $96,329 |
| BOY SCOUTS TWIN VALLEY COUNCIL | $88,465 |
| MINNESOTA COUNCIL OF CHURCHES | $88,465 |
| OPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER | $73,721 |
| LEISURE EDUCATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL | $68,806 |
| LUTHERAN SOCAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA | $68,806 |
| BLUE EARTH COUNTY | $57,389 |
| COMMITTEE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE | $56,225 |
| MANKATO AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $49,147 |
| SERVEMINNESOTA | $45,216 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- VFVINE FAITH IN ACTION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +87%
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF MANKATO INC5× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +24%
- PFPartners for Affordable Housing8× · 2017–2024 · $857k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- CVCEDAR VALLEY SERVICES INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +25%
- ADACHIEVING DREAMS FOR DISABILITIES OF WASECA COUNTY INCone grant, 2019 · $3k
- LSLE SUEUR COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL SER INCone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -89%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities and their families while supporting inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetime.
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Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
Our mission is empowering people as they age.
A b l e , inc (a brighter living experience, inc) is organized to provide residential care for developmentally disabled minnesota residents at its residential and intermediate care facilities located in houston county, minnesota. the…
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Provide training and habilitation services for developmentally disabled adults.
Serving others together in faith, community and life.
Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Minnesota Independent Living Enterprises & Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Peter Area Foodshelf Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VINE FAITH IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF MANKATO INC ↗
- Who funds Partners for Affordable Housing ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MANKATO ↗
- Who funds TWIN VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEISURE EDUCATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds LIFE WORK PLANNING CENTER BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Area Neighborhood Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER MANKATO DIVERSITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ST PETER AREA FOODSHELF INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding Our Communities Partners ↗
- Who funds SERVEMINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INDEPENDENT LIVING ENTERPRISES & SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CRYSTAL AREA RECREATION CENTER ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BRINK ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF MINNESOTA SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds ST PETER'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM INN OF WASECA ↗
- Who funds GOOD COUNSEL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LETS SMILE ↗
- Who funds WASECA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MANKATO AREA YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AGING SERVICES FOR COMMUNITIES ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Mankato Area Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Glen a Taylor Foundation · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · Valley News Foundation · Ucare Foundation · Medica Foundation · Jones Page Jacobson Family Foundation · L & N Andreas Foundation · Mankato Clinic Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Greater Mankato Area United Way Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.