How much does Head of the Lakes United Way give?

Head of the Lakes United Way reported 33 grants totaling $604,163 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Head of the Lakes United Way fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (30%), Human Services (25%), Health (13%).

Who are Head of the Lakes United Way's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Life House Inc ($599k), Welch Center Inc Dba Valley Youth Center ($495k), Mentor North ($435k).

Does Head of the Lakes United Way fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Head of the Lakes United Way?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, Northland Foundation, Smdc Medical Center.

Where is Head of the Lakes United Way based?

Head of the Lakes United Way is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

Head of the Lakes United Way

HEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY's (hluw) mission is to unite caring people and mobilize resources to empower individuals and strenghten communities.

$604k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 33
Grants FY2025: 32
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,687
Largest grant, FY2025: $47,928
Organizations funded a year: 32 to 44; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $8.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Head of the Lakes United Way funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	32	$604k	3%
FY2024	32	$566k	0%
FY2023	33	$804k	18%
FY2022	39	$914k	0%
FY2021	39	$948k	0%
FY2020	40	$1.1M	3%
FY2019	39	$1.2M	0%
FY2018	44	$1.3M	11%

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What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$2.6MHuman Services$2.2MHealth$1.1MCrime & Legal$680kHousing & Shelter$562kEmployment$405kFood & Nutrition$281kEducation$275kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Life House Inc	$598,685	9	4%
Welch Center Inc Dba Valley Youth Center	$494,714	9	n/a
Mentor North	$434,529	8	29%
Boys' Club of Duluth	$432,466	9	5%
Human Development Center Inc	$400,759	9	0%
Legal Aid Service of Northeastern Minnesota	$386,800	9	2%
Salvation Army	$365,793	9	n/a
Damiano of Duluth Inc	$356,162	9	6%
Lake Superior Community Health Center	$347,698	9	1%
Churches United in Ministry	$310,977	9	2%

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All grantees of Head of the Lakes United Way by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Life House Inc	$598,685	9	4%
Welch Center Inc Dba Valley Youth Center	$494,714	9	n/a
Mentor North	$434,529	8	29%
Boys' Club of Duluth	$432,466	9	5%
Human Development Center Inc	$400,759	9	0%
Legal Aid Service of Northeastern Minnesota	$386,800	9	2%
Salvation Army	$365,793	9	n/a
Damiano of Duluth Inc	$356,162	9	6%
Lake Superior Community Health Center	$347,698	9	1%
Churches United in Ministry	$310,977	9	2%
Young Women's Christian Association of Duluth	$291,297	8	4%
Soar Career Solutions	$285,579	9	5%
Duluth Area Family YMCA	$267,601	9	2%
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota	$262,938	9	0%
Duluth Community School Collaborative	$254,687	9	7%
Community Action Duluth Inc	$236,289	8	2%
The Hills Youth and Family Services	$229,802	5	1%
Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women	$224,653	9	2%
Men as Peacemakers	$192,450	9	3%
Center Against Sexual and Domestic Abuse	$184,486	9	2%
Center City Housing Corp	$179,400	9	0%
Faith United Methodist Church	$178,378	9	n/a
Second Harvest Northland	$166,916	9	0%
Family Freedom Center	$127,521	3	7%
School District of Superior	$119,648	6	n/a
Rise Together Inc	$119,076	3	44%
Just Kids Dental Inc	$117,082	9	6%
The Brick Ministries Inc	$94,423	8	2%
Girl Scouts of Mn and Wi Lakes and Pines	$92,247	6	n/a
American Red Cross-Northern Minnesota Chapter	$84,279	8	n/a
Arc Northland	$81,920	9	0%
Superior Vocations Center Inc	$75,369	6	2%
Community Partners-Two Harbors Living at Home Block Nurse Program	$63,536	7	7%
Positive Energy for Youth	$56,661	6	4%
First Witness Child Advocacy Center	$55,332	3	1%
American Indian Community Housing Organization	$48,213	5	0%
Lincoln Park Children and Families Collaborative	$47,649	3	3%
North Shore Area Partners	$46,124	7	1%
Courage Kenny Foundation	$45,254	6	0%
True North Goodwill Northern Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin	$44,271	6	0%
Children's Dental Services Inc	$43,658	6	0%
Northwoods Women Inc	$42,570	5	2%
Two Harbors Area Food Shelf	$40,512	6	4%
Superior-Douglas County Family YMCA	$34,929	5	1%
Western Lake Superior Habitat for Humanity	$26,493	3	4%
Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television Corporation	$18,000	1	0%
Volunteer Attorney Program	$16,829	2	2%
Catholic Charities Bureau Inc	$13,097	2	0%
Divine Konnections Inc	$12,982	1	n/a
Care Partners of Cook County	$11,034	2	3%
Challenge Center Inc	$10,825	1	0%
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System	$10,804	2	n/a
The Salvation Army	$5,652	1	n/a
Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs	$5,310	1	0%

Head of the Lakes United Way supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 45.

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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.

Duluth-Superior Area Community FoundationMN83.1× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Northland Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Ordean Foundation · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Minnesota Power Foundation · Second Harvest Northland · Mardag Foundation · Medica Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Pachel 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.

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About Head of the Lakes United Way

How much does Head of the Lakes United Way give?: Head of the Lakes United Way reported 33 grants totaling $604,163 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Head of the Lakes United Way fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (30%), Human Services (25%), Health (13%).
Who are Head of the Lakes United Way's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Life House Inc ($599k), Welch Center Inc Dba Valley Youth Center ($495k), Mentor North ($435k).
Does Head of the Lakes United Way fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Head of the Lakes United Way?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, Northland Foundation, Smdc Medical Center.
Where is Head of the Lakes United Way based?: Head of the Lakes United Way is based in MN.