· Public charity
Rice County Area United Way
RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY works to mobilize the resources and caring power of individuals, organizations, and networks to strengthen the community.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHFIELD COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER | $61,000 |
| IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $54,112 |
| HOPE CENTER | $12,000 |
| HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE | $12,000 |
| HEALTHFINDERS | $12,000 |
| FARIBAULT YOUTH INVESTMENT | $11,500 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $10,000 |
| TORCH | $9,000 |
| NORTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $9,000 |
| THREE RIVERS COMMUNITY ACTION | $7,000 |
| NORTHFIELD UNION OF YOUTH | $7,000 |
| RUTH'S HOUSE OF HOPE | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $839k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 0 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $723k · revenue +315%
- NHNORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE8× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +276%
- HCHealthFinders Collaborative Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +225%
Funded once
- SMSERVE MNREADING CORPSone grant, 2023 · $9k
- PFProject Friendship Incone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -24%
- PAPROJECT ABLEone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
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.
To provide pathways to end youth homelessness.
We are dedicated to promoting and enhancing healthy lifestyles by raising awareness about mental health, encouraging healthy eating habits, and promoting an active lifestyle in our communities.
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, strengthen families and prevent childhood maltreatment, by providing timely crucial support that meets the basic needs of local families and…
Helping Other People Experience HOPE through meeting felt needs and building healthy relationships.
Crime and communities violence interve
The homeless prevention center empowers individuals and families using evidence-based practice, to prevent homelessness, or rehouse those experiencing homelessness, by offering hope, one person and one family at a time.
We assist young mothers with housing and wrap around services.
Moc's mission is to empower families to achieve economic security by eliminating barriers and creating opportunities.
We provide low income housing
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds HealthFinders Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD UNION OF YOUTH ↗
- Who funds RUTH'S HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Rice County Neighbors United ↗
- Who funds Project Friendship Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Northfield Shares · Youthprise · Mardag Foundation · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Allina Health System · The American Center for Philanthropy Inc · Medica Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rice County Area United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rice County Area United Way. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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