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Greater Mankato Area United Way Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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Greater Mankato Area United Way Inc

To unite the community to secure and invest resources to improve people's lives.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$239k
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 2024.

Human Services$7.2MHealth$998kHousing & Shelter$933kYouth Development$778kRecreation & Sports$774kPublic Safety & Disaster$478kEducation$396kCommunity Improvement$310kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $457k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
$22,236
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNG MENS CITIZENS CHRISTIAN ASSN$239,093
MANKATO COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND REC$209,491
VINE FAITH IN ACTION$174,749
YOUNG WOMEN CITIZENS CHRISTAIN ASSN$144,654
PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING$128,824
SALVATION ARMY$93,290
MINNESOTA COUNCIL OF CHURCHES$89,098
BOY SCOUTS TWIN VALLEY COUNCIL$84,572
OPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER$73,754
SERVEMINNESOTA$69,821
LEISURE EDUCATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL$68,837
LUTHERAN SOCAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA$68,188
BLUE EARTH COUNTY$57,415
COMMITTEE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE$53,103
AMERICAN RED CROSS$39,336
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, $4.2M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AGING SERVICES FOR COMMUNITIES: $20k → 6%AGING SERVICES FOR COMMUNITIES: $13k → 6%YMCA: $221k → 15%YMCA: $221k → 15%YMCA: $221k → 15%YMCA: $220k → 15%YMCA: $219k → 15%VINE FAITH IN ACTION: $175k → 15%VINE FAITH IN ACTION: $167k → 15%VINE FAITH IN ACTION: $162k → 15%VINE FAITH IN ACTION: $159k → 15%VINE: $158k → 15%VINE: $154k → 15%VINE: $154k → 15%VINE Faith In Action: $153k → 15%VINE: $148k → 15%YOUNG WOMEN CITIZENS CHRISTAIN ASSN: $147k → 15%YOUNG WOMEN CITIZENS CHRISTAIN ASSN: $145k → 15%YOUNG WOMEN CITIZENS CHRISTAIN ASSN: $115k → 15%YOUNG WOMEN CITIZENS CHRISTAIN ASSN: $94k → 15%YWCA: $93k → 15%YWCA: $93k → 15%YWCA: $81k → 15%YWCA: $78k → 15%YWCA: $76k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $69k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $68k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $61k → 15%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $51k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $40k → 15%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $32k → 15%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $32k → 15%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $30k → 15%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $28k → 15%BEYOND BRINK: $23k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MN: $23k → 15%BEYOND BRINK: $20k → 15%Beyond Brink: $15k → 15%SMILES: $13k → 15%SMILES (Southern MN Independent Living Enterprises & Services): $13k → 15%SMILES: $13k → 15%SMILES: $12k → 15%Beyond Brink: $12k → 15%SMILES: $12k → 15%SMILES: $12k → 15%SMILES: $12k → 15%SMILES: $12k → 15%BEYOND BRINK: $11k → 15%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.
$15M · 45 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
3

Total granted

$15M
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+25%

Still filing today

71%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationCrime & LegalEmploymentOther
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

  • VF
    VINE FAITH IN ACTION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +87%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF MANKATO INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +24%
  • PF
    Partners for Affordable Housing
    9× · 2017–2025 · $986k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • CV
    CEDAR VALLEY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +25%
  • AD
    ACHIEVING DREAMS FOR DISABILITIES OF WASECA COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • LS
    LE SUEUR COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL SER INC
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -89%
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
Arc Northland

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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2
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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3
Lake County Developmental Achievement Center Inc

Lake county developmental achievement center, inc. (dac) is a licensed non-profit provider of employment and day support services for adults over 18 years of age and who are diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities. our…

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4
Living Well Disability Services

Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.

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5
Mount Olivet Day Services

To provide high quality care for children and seniors while promoting respect and understanding through intentional intergenerational interaction.

Housing & Shelter
6
Mankato Rehabilitation Center Inc

Creating innovative and genuine opportunities for people with disabilites or disadvantages to support their community participation.

Employment
7
Hiawatha Valley Mental Health Center Inc

Mission the community leader in delivering exceptional, responsive and consumer focused behavioral health services. vision to provide exceptional mental and behavioral support and services to enhance the well-being of our communities…

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8
Family and Children's Center Inc

To serve children, families, and individuals with a continuum of services designed to strengthen families and promote individual well-being.

Human Services
9
Sunrise Village

Serving others together in faith, community and life.

Housing & Shelter
10
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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11
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
12
Walker Adult Day Services

Walker Adult Day Services supports healthy aging with a focus on boosting overall wellness. Offering a range of helpful services all in one place, the program makes it easy for people facing isolation from physical or emotional challenges…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota; 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.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 53 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MANKATO COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND REC: $1,818,858 · OtherMANKATO COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND RECPartners for Affordable Housing: $986,102 · OtherPartners for Affordable HousingYOUNG MENS CITIZENS CHRISTIAN ASSN: $932,041 · OtherYOUNG MENS CITIZENS CHRISTIAN ASSNTWIN VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $762,401 · OtherTWIN VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICASALVATION ARMY: $758,014 · OtherSALVATION ARMYBLUE EARTH COUNTY: $702,749 · OtherBLUE EARTH COUNTYMINNESOTA COUNCIL OF CHURCHES: $576,456 · OtherMINNESOTA COUNCIL OF CHURCHESLEISURE EDUCATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE INC: $552,751 · OtherLEISURE EDUCATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE INCAmerican Red Cross: $517,522 · OtherAmerican Red Cross+26 more: $1,249,410 · Other+26 moreVINE FAITH IN ACTION: $1,428,989 · Human ServicesVINE FAITH IN ACTIONTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF MANKATO INC: $1,102,476 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC …YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MANKATO: $922,517 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIAT…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $409,895 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNE…+6 more: $343,274 · Human Services+6 moreOPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER: $636,534 · HealthLETS SMILE: $35,580 · HealthCOMMITTEE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $222,554 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC: $172,399 · Crime & LegalST PETER AREA FOODSHELF INC: $154,943 · Food & NutritionFeeding Our Communities Partners: $117,803 · Food & NutritionLIFE WORK PLANNING CENTER BOARD INC: $249,516 · EmploymentSERVEMINNESOTA: $173,698 · Community Improvement
Other$8,856,304Human Services$4,207,151Health$672,114Crime & Legal$394,953Food & Nutrition$272,746Employment$249,516Community Improvement$173,698

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 budgetVINE FAITH IN ACTION: $1,428,989 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF MANKATO INC: $1,102,476 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetPartners for Affordable Housing: $986,102 over 9y, 14% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MANKATO: $922,517 over 9y, 20% of budgetTWIN VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $762,401 over 9y, 9.7% of budgetOPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER: $636,534 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetLEISURE EDUCATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE INC: $552,751 over 9y, 27% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $409,895 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE WORK PLANNING CENTER BOARD INC: $249,516 over 9y, 9.5% of budgetCOMMITTEE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $222,554 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetArea Neighborhood Service Center Inc: $202,784 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetSERVEMINNESOTA: $173,698 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC: $172,399 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER MANKATO DIVERSITY COUNCIL: $167,667 over 9y, 14% of budgetST PETER AREA FOODSHELF INC: $154,943 over 9y, 16% of budgetFeeding Our Communities Partners: $117,803 over 2y, 13% of budgetLAKE CRYSTAL AREA RECREATION CENTER ASSOC INC: $113,444 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INDEPENDENT LIVING ENTERPRISES & SERVICES INC: $111,003 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetBEYOND BRINK: $100,986 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER: $70,555 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARC OF MINNESOTA SOUTHWEST: $65,324 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetST PETER'S SCHOOL: $50,457 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $49,421 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBETHLEHEM INN OF WASECA: $42,037 over 4y, 14% of budgetGOOD COUNSEL LEARNING CENTER INC: $40,545 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetWELLSHARE INTERNATIONAL: $38,626 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLETS SMILE: $35,580 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetAGING SERVICES FOR COMMUNITIES: $32,443 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $24,633 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL MINNESOTA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $23,596 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWASECA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $21,964 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetMANKATO AREA YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $19,854 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMANKATO AREA GIRLS FASTPITCH ASSOCIATION: $14,856 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetSEMCAC: $6,323 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY SERVICES INC: $2,998 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLE SUEUR COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL SER INC: $2,498 over 1y, 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 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 SERVEMINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MANKATO DIVERSITY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ST PETER AREA FOODSHELF INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding Our Communities Partners ↗
  • Who funds LAKE CRYSTAL AREA RECREATION CENTER ASSOC INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INDEPENDENT LIVING ENTERPRISES & SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND BRINK ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF MINNESOTA SOUTHWEST ↗
  • 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 WELLSHARE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds LETS SMILE ↗
  • Who funds AGING SERVICES FOR COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗

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.

Mankato Area Foundati…Otto Bremer TrustMayo Clinic Group Ret…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Glen a Taylor Foundat…Southern Minnesota In…Valley News FoundationUcare FoundationMedica FoundationJones Page Jacobson F…L & N Andreas Foundat…Mankato Clinic Founda…
Mankato Area FoundationMN49× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Greater Mankato Area United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Mankato Area United Way Inc. 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
    12report 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 53 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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