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Ucare Foundation

The UCARE FOUNDATION is a community-directed initiative of ucare minnesota.

$399k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
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.

Health$107MFood & Nutrition$2.2MHuman Services$1.8MCommunity Improvement$764kHousing & Shelter$268kPhilanthropy$172kCrime & Legal$157kEducation$155kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $238k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOUNTIFUL BASKET FOOD SHELF$50,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC$50,000
FAIRVIEW HEALTH SERVICES$50,000
SCOTT-CARVER-DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC$30,000
COPAL MN$30,000
MILLE LACS BAND OF OJIBWE INDIANS$30,000
TIWAHE FOUNDATION$30,000
WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC$30,000
OTTER TAIL COUNTY$25,000
DAKOTA COUNTY$25,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH$15,000
HENNEPIN COUNTY$13,000
SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
BLUE EARTH COUNTY$8,500
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, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SOMALI COMMUNITY RESETTLEMENT SERVICES INC: $50k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA ROCHESTER: $50k → 14%TOGETHER FOR LIFE NORTHLAND INC: $48k → 15%VINE FAITH IN ACTION: $100k → 15%IOWA WOMENS FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $30k → 5%SOMALI COMMUNITY RESETTLEMENT SERVICES INC: $25k → 9%NEW BEGINNINGS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $7k → 11%SCOTT-CARVER-DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC: $30k → 5%SOMALI COMMUNITY RESETTLEMENT SERVICES INC: $25k → 11%HOSPICE OF CENTRAL IOWA FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%SCOTT-CARVER-DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC: $10k → 5%SOMALI COMMUNITY RESETTLEMENT SERVICES INC: $25k → 11%DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $40k → 15%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $50k → 10%SOMALI COMMUNITY RESETTLEMENT SERVICES INC: $25k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES: $50k → 11%STEPS OF STRATEGY: $99k → 14%STEPS OF STRATEGY: $92k → 14%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS: $35k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $130k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $75k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $75k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $75k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $75k → 14%WAY TO GROW: $25k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $15k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $75k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $115k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $90k → 14%PEACE HOUSE COMMUNITY: $30k → 11%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $90k → 14%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $23k → 11%AVIVO: $15k → 11%NEXUS FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY HEALING: $50k → 11%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%PROOF ALLIANCE: $50k → 14%ACCESS PRESS: $75k → 14%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $45k → 11%UNION GOSPEL MISSION TWIN CITIES: $40k → 14%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 11%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $70k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $50k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $35k → 11%FRASER: $29k → 11%CLARE HOUSING: $25k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $35k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
MN
IA
CA
CO
VA
KS
DC
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.

4%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 32 repeat orgs$108M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
133

Total granted

$4.4M
$108M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+4%

Still filing today

56%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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

  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA
    5× · 2017–2022 · $505k · revenue +85%
  • AH
    AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $345k · revenue +70%
  • SO
    STEPS OF STRATEGY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $191k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • UF
    UCARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100M · revenue -98%
  • MH
    MINNESOTA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $714k · revenue +4%
  • AT
    APPLE TREE DENTAL
    one grant, 2024 · $600k · revenue 0%
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
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
2
Neighborhood Healthsource

It is the mission of neighborhood healthsource to improve the health of our communities by providing quality health care services that are affordable and accessible, while advancing health equity for all.

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3
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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4
Lake Superior Community Health Center

To improve access to quality health care for all.

Health
5
Minnesota Community Healthcare Network

Minnesota community healthcare networks (mchn) mission is to transform the lives of people with mental illness by forming regional alliances to create and continuously improve comprehensive treatment and integrated care models that promote…

Health
6
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.

Health
7
Glencoe Regional Health Services

Glencoe regional health services exists to improve every life by offering high-quality, safe, and accessible healthcare. we are dedicated to strengthening healthcare by connecting our communities, enhancing the patient experience,…

Health
8
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
9
Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc

We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.

Health
10
Regional West Health Services

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

Health
11
Northland Health Care Access

Operating an integrated community health system providing access to health care for the uninsured low income residents of three counties in Missouri

Health
12
Care Providers of Minnesota

Trade association whose mission is to empower members to excellence through advocacy, education, expertise, resources and support.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Together for Life Northland. 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

130 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. 130 of the 172 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/130
Grantees still filing
79/130
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCARE FOUNDATION: $100,000,000 · HealthUCARE FOUNDATION+43 more: $3,140,150 · HealthAPPLE TREE DENTAL: $600,000 · OtherWHEAT STATE HEALTHCARE INC: $260,000 · OtherSCOTT COUNTY: $199,428 · OtherMINNESOTA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $180,000 · Other+75 more: $3,444,651 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $505,000 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $345,000 · Human ServicesSTEPS OF STRATEGY: $190,834 · Human ServicesSomali Community Resettlement: $150,000 · Human ServicesVINE FAITH IN ACTION: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Human Services+26 more: $975,966 · Human ServicesFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $644,304 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $132,000 · Food & NutritionBOUNTIFUL BASKET FOOD SHELF OF EASTERN CARVER COUNTY: $70,532 · Food & NutritionCHANNEL ONE INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionWHITE BEAR AREA FOOD SHELF: $40,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $65,550 · Food & NutritionMINNESOTA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $714,000 · Community ImprovementThe Camden Collective: $75,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $25,000 · Community ImprovementSTRATIS HEALTH: $275,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $160,000 · PhilanthropyTHE EASTER SEAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $61,626 · PhilanthropySOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $67,000 · EducationFRANKLIN CENTER: $20,000 · Education
Health$103,140,150Other$4,684,079Human Services$2,366,800Food & Nutrition$1,002,386Community Improvement$814,000Philanthropy$496,626Education$237,000

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 budgetMINNESOTA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $714,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $644,304 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetAPPLE TREE DENTAL: $600,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $505,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $345,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLEAP PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT CARE: $300,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetSTRATIS HEALTH: $275,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetGRACEMED HEALTH CLINIC INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE DBA NORTH MEMORIAL HEALTH: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPS OF STRATEGY: $190,834 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMINNESOTA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $180,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSomali Community Resettlement: $150,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $132,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A: $130,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPORTICO HEALTHNET: $125,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI HEADWATERS AREA DENTAL DBA NORTHERN DENTAL ACCESS CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFairview Health Services: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARK NICOLLET HEALTH SERVICES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVINE FAITH IN ACTION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHealthFinders Collaborative Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAnnex Teen Clinic Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetMEWINZHA ONDAADIZIIKE WIIGAMING: $100,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $95,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS: $80,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetIOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST NORTH CENTRAL FOOD BANK: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetACCESS PRESS LTD: $75,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetThe Camden Collective: $75,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetOPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKeystone Community Services: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOUNTIFUL BASKET FOOD SHELF OF EASTERN CARVER COUNTY: $70,532 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $67,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLETS SMILE: $65,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE EASTER SEAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $61,626 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMY NEIGHBOR TO LOVE COALITION: $60,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $55,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetALLUMA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST LUKE'S FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCAPI USA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

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.

Medica FoundationOtto Bremer TrustUcare MinnesotaSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Allina Health SystemGreater Twin Cities U…Delta Dental of Minne…Mardag FoundationThe Sauer Family Foun…Hunger Solutions Minn…Edina Realty Foundati…
Medica FoundationMN88.1× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Ucare Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ucare Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 172 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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