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Lakes Area United Way

The mission of crow wing county united way inc.

$85k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$7k
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 2022.

Health$94kHuman Services$91kYouth Development$32kCrime & Legal$6k
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $12,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $85,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $72,500 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.
$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$305k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KINSHIP PARTNERS$6,500
BREATH OF LIFE ADULT SERVICE$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 (FY17–22, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $23k → 11%FAMILY SAFETY NETWORK: $6k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $23k → 11%MID-MINNESOTA WOMENS CENTER: $14k → 11%BREATH OF LIFE ADULT SERVICE: $7k → 11%BREATH OF LIFE ADULT SERVICE: $6k → 11%BREATH OF LIFE ADULT SERVICE: $6k → 11%BREATH OF LIFE ADULT SERVICE: $6k → 11%MID-MINNESOTA WOMENS CENTER: $6k → 11%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$217k · 9 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$217k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+0%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22
Human ServicesHealthOther
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

  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $46k · revenue +85%
  • BO
    BRIDGES OF HOPE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +133%
  • BO
    BREATH OF LIFE ADULT DAY SERVICE
    4× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • FS
    FAMILY SAFETY NETWORK OF CASS COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +0%
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
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
2
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
3
S a F E Shelter

We are committed to helping victims of sexual assault and abuse and domestic assault and abuse through advocacy support and education. We provide emergency shelter to domestic assault victims. We Also are committed to educating the public…

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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
Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (innovative care services) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities…

Human Services
6
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
7
Hope Crisis Center

Hope crisis center provides crisis line services and shelter to domestic violence and sexual assault victims

Health
8
Safehouse Crisis Center Inc

To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.

Human Services
9
Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services of Whatcom County

The mission of domestic violence and sexual assault services is to support individuals affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual exploitation, and to lead the community toward ending these abuses of power.

Health
10
Safe Avenues

Safe avenues mission is to provide advocacy, parenting time services, and emergency shelter to victims of domestic and sexual violence.

Human Services
11
Life Crisis Center Inc

To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.

Human Services
12
Center for Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Survivors Inc

The mission of the center for sexual assault and domestic violence survivors is to advocate for non-violence through intervention, education, and prevention in order to create a safe environment for all individuals, families and…

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 Breath of Life Adult Day Service. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $46,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTABREATH OF LIFE ADULT DAY SERVICE: $25,600 · Human ServicesBREATH OF LIFE ADULT DAY SERVICEMID-MINNESOTA WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesMID-MINNESOTA WOMEN'S CENTER INCFAMILY SAFETY NETWORK OF CASS COUNTY INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY SAFETY NETWORK OF CASS COUNTY INCSALVATION ARMY: $27,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYKINSHIP PARTNERS INC: $20,500 · OtherKINSHIP PARTNERS INCCONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER INC: $16,000 · OtherCONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER INCRIVERVIEW CHURCH: $11,000 · OtherRIVERVIEW CHURCHBRIDGES OF HOPE: $30,000 · HealthBRIDGES OF HOPESEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES INC: $21,000 · HealthSEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES IN…
Human Services$96,600Other$74,500Health$51,000

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 budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $46,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES OF HOPE: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBREATH OF LIFE ADULT DAY SERVICE: $25,600 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES INC: $21,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetKINSHIP PARTNERS INC: $20,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetMID-MINNESOTA WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $19,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY SAFETY NETWORK OF CASS COUNTY INC: $5,500 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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.

CommunitygivingInitiative FoundationOtto Bremer TrustEssentia Health Found…Amazonsmile Foundation
CommunitygivingMN15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Initiative Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Essentia Health Foundation · 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 Lakes Area United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lakes Area United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 10 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $40k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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