How much did Missouri Slope Areawide United Way grant in FY2025?

Human Services$3.4MHealth$1.9MYouth Development$694kFood & Nutrition$666kEducation$346kHousing & Shelter$212kReligion$125kPublic Safety & Disaster$49kOther$0

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k10 grants · $249k
$50k–250k2 grants · $153k

$28,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MISSOURI VALLEY FAMILY YMCA	$100,250
YOUTHWORKS	$53,000
NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL	$40,000
MORTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING	$34,000
GIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS	$30,000
BISMARCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS	$30,000
BURLEIGH COUNTY SENIOR ADULTS PROGRAM	$28,000
DACOTAH FOUNDATION	$27,000
GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK	$25,000
WELCOME HOUSE	$15,000
FAMILY WELLNESS BISMARCK MANDAN LLC	$10,400
TR 4 HEART AND SOUL	$10,000
COMMUNITY CUPBOARD OF UNDERWOOD	$8,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. 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 linein 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 — 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.3M · 32 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.3M

$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+52%

Still filing today

75%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 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 ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementReligionOther

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

MV
Missouri Valley Family YMCA
9× · 2017–2025 · $922k · revenue +26%
MP
MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS
9× · 2017–2025 · $806k · revenue +88%
AA
ABUSED ADULT RESOURCE CENTER
7× · 2017–2023 · $695k · revenue +68%

Funded once

VF
Village Family Service Center
one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +4%
TN
THE NORTH DAKOTA COALITION FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE INC
one grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue -98%
BT
BIS-MAN TRANSIT BOARDgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +58%

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.

Catholic Charities North Dakota

Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.

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Credit Union Association of the Dakotas

The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.

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Nd Association of Counties

NDACo provides leadership and services to foster effective and efficient government for the good of all counties.

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Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health

Easter Seals Goodwill Nd Inc

Easter Seals Goodwill ND, Inc. is a leading organization in supporting children, adults, and families to have equal opportunities to live, learn, work, and play in their communities.

Health

Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center Inc

Founded in Christian faith, we enrich lives with love and compassion.

Health

Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…

Human Services

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy

Keystone Community Services

To strengthen the capacity of individuals and families to improve their quality of life.

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North Dakota Long Term Care Association

We are a professional association of long term care and community service providers who enhance the lives of people we serve through collaboration, education and advocacy.

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Community Resource Connections Inc

Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.

Community Improvement

Western South Dakota Senior Services Inc

To assist seniors in maintaining optimal health, independence, and socialization, deferring admission to long term care facilities and improving their quality of life.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mandan Golden Age Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/41

the rest of the field

156/1,902

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/33

Grantees still filing

23/33

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,840,016Human Services$2,717,339Food & Nutrition$289,548Youth Development$275,972Housing & Shelter$130,000Religion$124,700Community Improvement$50,000

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.

Midcontinent FoundationMN41.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Midcontinent Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Great Plains Food Bank · Sanford Group Return · United Way of Cass-Clay · John a Kozel Charitable Trust · Impact Foundation · Souris Valley United Way · Myra 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 organization Missouri Slope Areawide 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.

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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

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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