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· Public charity
LAKES AREA UNITED WAY
The mission of crow wing county united way inc.
$85k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants
1
Communities
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
0168% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2022.
Human Services$67kHealth$33kOther$47k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
—
2021
advocacy
2022
—
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2022 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$305k
Total assets
Largest grants
- KINSHIP PARTNERS$6,500
- BREATH OF LIFE ADULT SERVICE$6,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$95k · 5 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
5
Total granted
$95k
$53k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+38%
+87%
Still filing today
80%
80%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 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 ServicesHealthOther
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
- BOBRIDGES OF HOPE2× · 2018–2019 · $23k · revenue +133%
- MWMID-MINNESOTA WOMENS CENTER2× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +38%
- BOBREATH OF LIFE ADULT SERVICE3× · 2018–2022 · $19k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $23k · revenue +71%
- SASEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +53%
- CLCONFIDENCE LEARNING CEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +87%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Domestic Abuse Intervention
Domestic abuse intervention programs is a nonprofit agency that works towards the elimination of violence in the lives of women and their children.
Human Services
2
Sexual Assault Center
To provide healing to sexual assault survivors, and training, prevention and outreach to the community to end sexual violence.
Health
3
Living Services Inc
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4
Family Link Treatment Services Inc
A state of texas licensed foster care-adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Health
5
Lincoln Behavioral Services
Lincoln Behavioral Services provides comprehensive outpatient mental health and physical health services to individuals residing in southeastern Michigan.
Health
6
Domestic Violence Safe Options Svcs
Aid victims of domestic violence/assualt
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7
Victory Human Services Inc
Provides specialized services to assist individuals and their families in overcoming the challenges of developmental disabilities, mental illness, and medical conditions.
Health
8
Stillwater Domestic Violence
Stillwater domestic violance dba wings of hope: the wings of hope family crisis services provides comprehensive services to individual experiencing domestic violence, sexual assault, stalkin and child abuse. the agency strives to provide…
Human Services
9
Lifechoices Womens Care Inc
To transform healthcare by providing natural, holistic and life affirming medical care - Family Medicine and Women?s Health medical services, education opportunities and ongoing support.
Health
10
Domestic Abuse Intervention Services
Domestic abuse intervention services offers a wide array of crisis intervention and community education/prevention programs, including a 24-hour help line, programming for children from violent homes, legal advocacy, support groups,…
Human Services
11
Abused Women's Aid in Crisis Inc
Awaic's mission is to provide domestic violence safe shelter, intervention, and prevention. for more details see schedule o.
Human Services
12
Asap Association for Sexual Abuse
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridges of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Confidence Learning Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$67,300Other$47,000Health$33,000
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.
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.
CommunitygivingMN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Otto Bremer Trust · Essentia Health Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation LAKES AREA UNITED WAY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +53% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 411643023 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Lakes Area United Way?
Find your warmest path to Lakes Area United Way through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines