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Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc

MNRAAA helps older adults thrive in Southwest MN by enabling older adults to maintain the lifestyle of their choice.

$5.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$15MFood & Nutrition$12MHealth$2.0MCrime & Legal$809kCommunity Improvement$762kPhilanthropy$243kEducation$59kPublic Benefit$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $4,927,360, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,506,856 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $579,496 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $347k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.2M
$64,832
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota$2,515,408
Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc$658,660
Essential Senior Services LLC$201,878
Southern MN Regional Legal Services Inc$181,203
VINE Faith in Action$113,666
United Community Action Partnership$109,402
VINE Faith in Action$105,973
Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc$93,816
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota$92,378
Waseca Area Caregiver Services$89,698
Central Community Transit$88,540
Waseca Area Caregiver Services$81,926
VINE Faith in Action$64,832
ACE of Southwest Minnesota$63,481
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota$56,641
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 (FY17–24, $21.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Granite Falls LAHBNP: $34k → 11%Interfaith Caregivers-Faith in Action in Faribault Co: $97k → 11%Caregiver Response Effort & Service Team: $33k → 11%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $2.9M → 11%Ecumen: $42k → 14%VINE Faith in Action: $184k → 15%Wellspring Faith in Action: $34k → 16%Granite Falls LAHBNP: $28k → 11%Interfaith Caregivers-Faith in Action in Faribault Co: $88k → 11%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $2.7M → 11%VINE Faith in Action: $183k → 15%Wellspring Faith in Action: $34k → 16%Interfaith Caregivers-Faith in Action in Faribault Co: $81k → 11%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $2.5M → 11%VINE Faith in Action: $119k → 15%Wellspring Faith in Action: $31k → 16%Interfaith Caregivers-Faith in Action in Faribault Co: $72k → 11%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $2.5M → 11%VINE Faith in Action: $114k → 15%Wellspring Faith in Action: $30k → 16%Interfaith Caregivers-Faith in Action in Faribault Co: $60k → 11%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $2.3M → 11%VINE Faith in Action: $106k → 15%Wellspring Faith in Action: $30k → 16%Interfaith Caregivers-Faith in Action in Faribault Co: $56k → 11%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $1.6M → 11%VINE Faith in Action: $101k → 15%Interfaith Caregivers-Faith in Action in Faribault Co: $56k → 11%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $1.6M → 11%VINE Faith in Action: $98k → 15%Interfaith Caregivers-Faith in Action in Faribault County: $44k → 11%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $1.5M → 11%VINE Faith in Action: $94k → 15%Interfaith Caregivers-Faith in Action in Faribault County: $44k → 11%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $154k → 11%VINE Faith in Action: $94k → 15%Interfaith Caregivers-Faith in Action in Faribault Co: $43k → 11%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $154k → 11%VINE Faith in Action: $89k → 15%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $111k → 11%VINE Faith in Action: $86k → 15%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $92k → 11%VINE Faith in Action: $79k → 15%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $57k → 11%VINE Faith in Action: $71k → 15%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $32k → 11%VINE Faith in Action: $65k → 15%Interfaith Caregivers-Faith in Action in Faribault Co: $42k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 22 repeat orgs$345k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
14

Total granted

$30M
$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+5%

Still filing today

59%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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
    8× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +85%
  • PF
    Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +53%
  • IC
    INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS - FAITH IN ACTION IN FARIBAULT COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • CC
    Central Community Transit
    one grant, 2019 · $94k
  • ES
    ECUMEN SBC INC
    one grant, 2019 · $42k
  • BM
    Brent Moseng Construction LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $27k
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
Oak Crest Senior Housing

To provide quality, life enhancing housing with services and activities for seniors of northwest minnesota

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2
Sauer Health Care

To provide nursing care and related services to the aged and handicapped in winona, mn and the surrounding area.

—
3
Sunrise Village

Serving others together in faith, community and life.

Housing & Shelter
4
Cedar Crest Inc

Cedar crest is a life plan retirement community serving adults 55 years of age or older. its mission is to offer residents a faith-based culture that embraces a distinct wellness lifestyle, compassionate supportive living and excellent…

Health
5
Walker Adult Day Services

Walker Adult Day Services promotes healthy aging with the focus to improve and enhance overall wellness. Through a system of supportive services in one location the program conveniently assists people experiencing isolation due to physical…

Human Services
6
Senior Community Services

Our mission is empowering people as they age.

Human Services
7
Midland Area Agency On Aging

The mission of midland area agency on aging is to provide caring and quality services to older adults and their families that enable independent living with dignity in their homes and communities.

Human Services
8
Living Center Inc

Enhancing the quality of life through integrated healthcare.

—
9
St Luke Lutheran Community

Provide long-term nursing care for the aging and faith-based services to enrich the lives of older adults.

—
10
Minnewaska Lutheran Home

A community of services, grounded in faith, providing person centered care that encourages all people to reach their highest potential.

—
11
Pine Haven Inc

Pine haven community provides a continuum of care through the belief that every person is unique.

Health
12
Frontine Senior Careinc
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethesda; the most unlike its peers is Madison Art Gallery. 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

18 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. 18 of the 36 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
17/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $18,307,938 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTAINTERFAITH CAREGIVERS - FAITH IN ACTION IN FARIBAULT COUNTY: $1,967,469 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH CAREGIVERS - FAITH IN ACTION IN FARIBAULT COUNTY+6 more: $683,361 · Human ServicesPrairie Five Community Action Council Inc: $5,177,811 · OtherPrairie Five Community Act…Essential Senior Services LLC: $559,324 · OtherEssential Senior Services …Central Community Transit: $457,300 · OtherCentral Community TransitCity of Worthington - Ctr for Active Living: $295,962 · Other+15 more: $770,104 · Other+15 moreSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC: $809,292 · Crime & LegalWASECA AREA CAREGIVER SERVICES: $447,981 · HealthBETHESDA: $117,046 · HealthOPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER: $25,000 · Health+2 more: $40,496 · HealthA C E OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA: $568,260 · PhilanthropyUNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $477,951 · Community ImprovementBROOKSIDE SENIOR LIVING: $6,508 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$20,958,768Other$7,260,501Crime & Legal$809,292Health$630,523Philanthropy$568,260Community Improvement$477,951Housing & Shelter$6,508

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $18,307,938 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetPrairie Five Community Action Council Inc: $5,177,811 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC: $809,292 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetA C E OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA: $568,260 over 8y, 17% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $477,951 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWASECA AREA CAREGIVER SERVICES: $447,981 over 5y, 94% of budgetWELLSPRING FAITH IN ACTION: $238,239 over 8y, 47% of budgetVINE FAITH IN ACTION: $198,410 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetBETHESDA: $117,046 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAREGIVERS RESPONSE EFFORT & SERVIC: $110,456 over 4y, 23% of budgetGRANITE FALLS LIVING AT HOME BLOCK NURSE PROGRAM: $88,972 over 3y, 17% of budgetMADISON ART GALLERY: $60,722 over 3y, 30% of budgetOPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOODLAND CENTERS: $20,455 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRENVILLE HEALTH SERVICES: $20,041 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKSIDE SENIOR LIVING: $6,508 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIG STONE AREA MEMORY LOSS CONNECTION: $5,559 over 1y, 40% 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 LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS - FAITH IN ACTION IN FARIBAULT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds A C E OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds WASECA AREA CAREGIVER SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING FAITH IN ACTION ↗
  • Who funds VINE FAITH IN ACTION ↗
  • Who funds BETHESDA ↗
  • Who funds CAREGIVERS RESPONSE EFFORT & SERVIC ↗
  • Who funds GRANITE FALLS LIVING AT HOME BLOCK NURSE PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds MADISON ART GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAND CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds RENVILLE HEALTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds BROOKSIDE SENIOR LIVING ↗
  • Who funds BIG STONE AREA MEMORY LOSS CONNECTION ↗

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.

Southwest Initiative …Otto Bremer TrustMetropolitan Area Age…Medica FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Southwest Initiative FoundationMN32.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southwest Initiative Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc · Medica 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 Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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