Virginia · Public charity
Ucare Foundation
The UCARE FOUNDATION is a community-directed initiative of ucare minnesota. The focus is grant-making to programs and initiatives that improve the health of underserved populations in the twin cities and throughout minnesota and western wisconsin.
- $399k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 71
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 71
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Ucare Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $347k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 71 | $3.7M | 83% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $103M | 86% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $1.1M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $1.2M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $909k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $1.3M | 88% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $390k | 80% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ucare Foundation | $100,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Minnesota Hospital Association | $714,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Food Group Minnesota Inc The | $644,304 | 4 | 1% |
| Apple Tree Dental | $600,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota | $505,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Amherst H Wilder Foundation | $345,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Leap Pediatric and Adolescent Care | $300,000 | 1 | 57% |
| Stratis Health | $275,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Wheat State Healthcare Inc | $260,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gracemed Health Clinic Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 169 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Ucare Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 124 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Medica Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Ucare Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Allina Health System · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundation · Mardag Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Edina Realty Foundation
How this is measured
About Ucare Foundation
- How much does Ucare Foundation give?
- Ucare Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $398,775 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 71 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ucare Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (95%), Food & Nutrition (2%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are Ucare Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ucare Foundation ($100M), Minnesota Hospital Association ($714k), Food Group Minnesota Inc The ($644k).
- Does Ucare Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ucare Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Medica Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Ucare Minnesota.
- Where is Ucare Foundation based?
- Ucare Foundation is based in VA.
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