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Missouri Slope Areawide United Way

We unite people and resources to build a better community.

$416k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
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 2025.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $249k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $153k
$28,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSOURI VALLEY FAMILY YMCA$100,250
YOUTHWORKS$53,000
NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL$40,000
MORTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING$34,000
BISMARCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS$30,000
GIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS$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
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 14%YOUTHWORKS: $164k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 14%YOUTHWORKS: $156k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%MORTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $34k → 10%YOUTHWORKS: $99k → 10%YOUTHWORKS: $99k → 10%MORTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $34k → 10%DAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $82k → 10%YOUTHWORKS: $78k → 10%YOUTHWORKS: $78k → 10%MORTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $17k → 10%DAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $60k → 10%FAMILY WELLNESS BISMARCK MANDAN LLC: $14k → 10%DAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $60k → 10%DAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $60k → 10%FAMILY WELLNESS BISMARCK MANDAN LLC: $11k → 10%YOUTHWORKS: $53k → 10%FAMILY WELLNESS BISMARCK MANDAN LLC: $11k → 10%YOUTHWORKS: $53k → 10%FAMILY WELLNESS BISMARCK MANDAN LLC: $10k → 10%FAMILY WELLNESS BISMARCK MANDAN LLC: $10k → 10%FAMILY WELLNESS BISMARCK MANDAN LLC: $10k → 10%FIRST LINK: $5k → 12%FAMILY WELLNESS BISMARCK MANDAN LLC: $5k → 10%FIRST LINK: $5k → 12%YOUTHWORKS: $27k → 10%ND COALITION FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE: $32k → 10%FACE IT TOGETHER: $18k → 10%FACE IT TOGETHER: $14k → 10%FACE IT TOGETHER: $7k → 10%FACE IT TOGETHER: $7k → 10%DACOTAH FOUNDATION: $27k → 10%DACOTAH FOUNDATION: $27k → 10%DACOTAH FOUNDATION: $27k → 10%DACOTAH FOUNDATION: $27k → 10%DACOTAH FOUNDATIONBISMARCK MANDAN MENTOR SQUAD: $27k → 10%BISMARCK - MANDAN TRANSIT BOARD: $15k → 10%DACOTAH FOUNDATION: $14k → 10%TR 4 HEART AND SOUL: $10k → 10%TR 4 HEART AND SOUL: $10k → 10%TR 4 HEART AND SOUL: $10k → 10%TR 4 HEART AND SOUL: $10k → 10%TR 4 HEART AND SOUL: $10k → 10%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.
$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

32
9

Total granted

$7.3M
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+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.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
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

  • 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%
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
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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2
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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3
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
4
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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5
Regional West Health Services

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

Health
6
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
7
Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center Inc

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

Health
8
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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9
Keystone Community Services

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

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10
Good Shepherd Lutheran Home of Sauk Rapids Minnesota

Good shepherd lutheran home and its affliliates provide personalized housing & health care services for the young & older adults in central minnesota through a continuum of care.

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11
Odd Fellows and Rebekah Home of North Dakota Inc

It is the mission of the Odd Fellows Home to be a "Place Where Somebody Cares." This has been the motto off Odd Fellows Home since the 1925 dedication. The Odd Fellows Home's mission is to provide a comfortable and pleasant atmosphere as…

Housing & Shelter
12
North Dakota News Cooperative
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Missouri River Educational Cooperative: $1,207,426 · OtherMissouri River Educational CooperativeABUSED ADULT RESOURCE CENTER: $695,480 · OtherABUSED ADULT RESOURCE CENTERLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND: $429,926 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NDNORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $348,122 · OtherNORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INCBURLEIGH COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $227,250 · OtherBURLEIGH COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGINGMANDAN GOLDEN AGE CLUB: $216,150 · OtherMANDAN GOLDEN AGE CLUBTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $162,836 · Other+15 more: $552,826 · Other+15 moreMissouri Valley Family YMCA: $922,325 · Human ServicesMissouri Valley Family YMCAMOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS: $805,983 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKSDAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $262,000 · Human ServicesDAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERCHARLES HALL YOUTH SERVICES: $207,464 · Human ServicesCHARLES HALL YOUTH SERVICESTHE DACOTAH FOUNDATION: $148,313 · Human ServicesTHE DACOTAH FOUNDATION+9 more: $371,254 · Human Services+9 moreGreat Plains Food Bank: $289,548 · Food & NutritionGIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS: $275,972 · Youth DevelopmentWELCOME HOUSE INC: $130,000 · Housing & ShelterMinistry on the Margins: $124,700 · ReligionREBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER BISMARCK-MANDAN AREA: $50,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,840,016Human Services$2,717,339Food & Nutrition$289,548Youth Development$275,972Housing & Shelter$130,000Religion$124,700Community Improvement$50,000

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 budgetMissouri Valley Family YMCA: $922,325 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetMOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS: $805,983 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetABUSED ADULT RESOURCE CENTER: $695,480 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND: $429,926 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $348,122 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetGreat Plains Food Bank: $289,548 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS: $275,972 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetDAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $262,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetBURLEIGH COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $227,250 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetMANDAN GOLDEN AGE CLUB: $216,150 over 6y, 32% of budgetCHARLES HALL YOUTH SERVICES: $207,464 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetTHE DACOTAH FOUNDATION: $148,313 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWELCOME HOUSE INC: $130,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetMinistry on the Margins: $124,700 over 4y, 12% of budgetCHILDS HOPE LEARNING CENTER: $115,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetMORTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $85,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFamily Wellness Bismarck-Mandan LLC: $76,300 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTR 4 Heart & Soul Inc: $54,915 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetGUARDIAN AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES INC: $52,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCCO INC: $51,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER BISMARCK-MANDAN AREA: $50,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $49,097 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFace It TOGETHER - Bismarck-Mandan: $44,250 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetVillage Family Service Center: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NORTH DAKOTA COALITION FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE INC: $31,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetCENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $21,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIS-MAN TRANSIT BOARD: $15,192 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIRSTLINK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFURRY FRIENDS ROCKIN' RESCUE INC: $6,778 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWilliston Lodge No 239 Loyal Order of Moose: $5,380 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetSACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% 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 Missouri Valley Family YMCA ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS ↗
  • Who funds ABUSED ADULT RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS ↗
  • Who funds DAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BURLEIGH COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds MANDAN GOLDEN AGE CLUB ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES HALL YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE DACOTAH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WELCOME HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Ministry on the Margins ↗
  • Who funds CHILDS HOPE LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MORTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds Family Wellness Bismarck-Mandan LLC ↗
  • Who funds TR 4 Heart & Soul Inc ↗
  • Who funds GUARDIAN AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CCO INC ↗
  • Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER BISMARCK-MANDAN AREA ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Face It TOGETHER - Bismarck-Mandan ↗
  • Who funds Village Family Service Center ↗
  • Who funds THE NORTH DAKOTA COALITION FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds AID INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BIS-MAN TRANSIT BOARD ↗
  • Who funds FIRSTLINK ↗
  • Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds FURRY FRIENDS ROCKIN' RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Williston Lodge No 239 Loyal Order of Moose ↗
  • Who funds SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER ↗

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.

Midcontinent Foundati…North Dakota Communit…Blue Cross Blue Shiel…The Tom and Frances L…Otto Bremer TrustGreat Plains Food BankSanford Group ReturnUnited Way of Cass-Cl…John a Kozel Charitab…Impact FoundationSouris Valley United …Myra Foundation
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

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 Missouri Slope Areawide United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Missouri Slope Areawide United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    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
    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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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