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Sherburne County Area United Way

SHERBURNE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY strives to drive lasting change in the sherburne county area by uniting changemakers to advocate for the common good of the community and to develop innovative solutions to local complex challenges that cannot be solved alone.

$74k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$32k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$8,864
Largest grant, FY2024
$9,436
Organizations funded a year
2 to 2
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$139k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Sherburne County Area United Way funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$32k75%
FY20232$14k100%
FY20202$11kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$20kYouth Development$15kHealth$9kFood & Nutrition$9kCrime & Legal$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Open Doors For Youth$14,64732%
Magnus Veterans Foundation$8,86421%
Thumbs Up High 5k$8,55822%
Community Aid of Elk River$8,51110%
Catholic Charities USA$6,1901n/a
Rivers of Hope$5,51921%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North$5,00010%

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.

The Graco FoundationMN15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Graco Foundation · Connexus Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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.

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About Sherburne County Area United Way

How much does Sherburne County Area United Way give?
Sherburne County Area United Way reported 4 itemized grants totaling $32,377, out of $73,853 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 2 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Sherburne County Area United Way fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Youth Development (26%), Health (15%).
Who are Sherburne County Area United Way's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Open Doors For Youth ($15k), Magnus Veterans Foundation ($9k), Thumbs Up High 5k ($9k).
Does Sherburne County Area United Way fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sherburne County Area United Way?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Graco Foundation, Connexus Energy Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
Where is Sherburne County Area United Way based?
Sherburne County Area United Way is based in MN.

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 7 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $10k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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