· Public charity
Mitchell United Way
Fund raising and support for local not-for-profit organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $269,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $316,476 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $47,476 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $189k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $40,000 |
| MITCHELL AREA SAFE HOUSE | $30,000 |
| LIFE QUEST | $30,000 |
| ABBOTT HOUSE | $30,000 |
| DAKOTA COUNCILING INSTITUTE | $28,000 |
| FIRST CITCUIT CASA PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CAREER LEARNING | $11,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS | $9,000 |
| WEEKEND SNACK PACK | $9,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $8,500 |
| LOVE FEAST | $7,000 |
| JAMES VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $7,000 |
| MITCHELL RECRATIONAL PROGRAMS | $7,000 |
| BIG FREIND LITTLE FRIEND | $6,500 |
| INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $893k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LILIFEQUEST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +74%
- AHABBOTT HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $293k · revenue +133%
- MAMITCHELL AREA SAFEHOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $251k · revenue +563%
Funded once
- YYWCAone grant, 2017 · $32k
- FCFIRST CIRCUIT CASAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +171%
- BFBIG FRIEND LITTLE FRIEND OF THE MITCHELL AREAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +137%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
To provide a broad spectrum of mental health services to residents of south dakota
St. Luke's Home and its assisted living facility, Park Avenue Villa, exist to provide a continuum of quality care to God's people, creating a compassionate, comfortable, and family oriented atmosphere, striving to enhance the dignity and…
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
Strengthening lives, families, and communities through our cornerstone values.
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
To be a recognized leader in community mental health, respected for our clinical quality, innovation, and adaptation to a rapidly changing health care and social services environment.
A Childs Place CASA Ltd. recruits screens trains & supervises CASA Volunteers to advocate on behalf of abused and neglected children.
To provide services and supports to people with developmental disabilities.
To provide trauma-focused quality services that encourage people to achieve their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota and the most unlike its peers is First Circuit Casa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds LIFEQUEST INC ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL AREA SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA COUNSELING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Cornerstones Career Learning Center ↗
- Who funds Avera St Luke's ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FIRST CIRCUIT CASA ↗
- Who funds BIG FRIEND LITTLE FRIEND OF THE MITCHELL AREA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: South Dakota Community 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 organization Mitchell 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.
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.