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Ucare Minnesota

Ucare will improve the health of our members through innovative services and partnerships across communities.

$84M
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$80M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Health$162MEducation$6.0MCommunity Improvement$3.2MHuman Services$861kFood & Nutrition$788kHousing & Shelter$392kPhilanthropy$145kEmployment$95kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$80,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCARE FOUNDATION$80,000,000
UCARE KANSAS$3,505,992
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $796k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LEE CARLSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING: $70k → 7%Somali Community Resettlement Program: $40k → 11%LEE CARLSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING: $25k → 7%LEADINGAGE MN FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%CENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: $50k → 11%YWCA ST PAUL: $35k → 14%DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $50k → 15%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS: $25k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $25k → 11%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $81k → 14%ACCESS PRESS: $50k → 14%STAIRSTEP FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%FRASER: $15k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of Ucare Minnesota’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Ucare Minnesotalessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$158M · 37 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 36 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
75

Total granted

$158M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+8%

Still filing today

76%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • UF
    UCARE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $113M · revenue +37% · 99% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $13M · revenue +137%
  • AH
    ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM
    4× · 2017–2022 · $2.6M · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • UI
    UCARE IOWA
    one grant, 2022 · $5.5M · revenue -96% · 100% of their budget
  • PN
    PARK NICOLLET CLINIC HSM
    one grant, 2020 · $722k
  • EI
    ESSENTIA INSTITUTE OF RURAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $350k · revenue +2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Healtheast Woodwinds Hospital

Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.

Health
2
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
3
Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital

Provide quality, accessible, and valuable health care services via a hospital, home health agency, and clinic to the surrounding rural community.

Health
4
Centracare Health System - Long Prairie

We're here for your whole life to listen, then serve, to guide and heal because health means everything.

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
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
7
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
8
Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc

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

Health
9
Healtheast St John's Hospital

Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.

Health
10
Centracare Health System - Melrose

We're here for your whole life to listen, then serve, to guide and heal because health means everything.

Health
11
United Hospital District

At United Hospital District, we exist to provide and promote appropriate health care services to the communities we serve, doing so in a safe and healing environment which supports our patient-centered care philosophy.

Health
12
Regional West Health Services

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

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Family Practice Health Center and the most unlike its peers is Cass Lake Area Food Shelf. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth and Family Support Se…Disability Services & Emplo…Regional Business AdvocacyAccessible Housing for Seni…Education Scholarship Found…Community Foundations and P…Christian Faith DevelopmentSenior Housing & Care Servi…Pediatric and Community Hea…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr15%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%78%10–20yr18%2%20–35yr14%4%35–55yr15%12%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/115
the rest of the field
13%
2,772/21,455

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 115 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/84
Grantees still filing
59/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UCARE FOUNDATION — $112,912,597 · HealthUCARE FOUNDATIONUCARE IOWA — $5,500,000 · Health+40 more — $13,309,403 · Health+40 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $17,345,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MIN…UCARE KANSAS INC — $3,505,992 · OtherUCARE KANSAS INCCHILDREN'S HEALTH NETWORK — $950,000 · Other+48 more — $5,202,681 · Other+48 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $13,362,000 · Education+1 more — $100,000 · EducationLEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $181,000 · Human ServicesLEE CARLSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELL-BEING — $95,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ORGANIZATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesACCESS PRESS LTD — $50,000 · Human ServicesDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesSomali Community Resettlement — $40,000 · Human ServicesYoung Women's Christian Association of St Paul — $35,000 · Human ServicesSTAIRSTEP FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Human Services+3 more — $65,000 · Human ServicesSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $305,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $100,000 · Food & NutritionCASS LAKE AREA FOOD SHELF — $50,151 · Food & NutritionHMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Food & NutritionSTRATIS HEALTH — $195,000 · PhilanthropyVENN FOUNDATION — $155,000 · Philanthropy911 DAY — $20,000 · PhilanthropyNEXUS FAMILY HEALING — $200,000 · Crime & Legal
Health$131,722,000Other$27,004,173Education$13,462,000Human Services$796,000Food & Nutrition$480,151Philanthropy$370,000Crime & Legal$200,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUCARE FOUNDATION — $112,912,597 over 7y, 99% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $13,362,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetUCARE IOWA — $5,500,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM — $2,565,364 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFairview Health Services — $2,275,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE DBA NORTH MEMORIAL HEALTH — $1,900,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $1,075,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $825,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetOLMSTED MEDICAL CENTER — $400,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM — $399,946 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetESSENTIA INSTITUTE OF RURAL HEALTH — $350,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $305,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE — $290,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE NETWORK INC DBA FEDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTER UN — $275,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCEDAR RIVERSIDE PEOPLE'S CENTER — $275,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetRIDGEVIEW MEDICAL CENTER — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF DULUTH — $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC — $250,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHSOURCE — $220,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNEXUS FAMILY HEALING — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFairview Physician Associates Network — $200,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSTRATIS HEALTH — $195,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $181,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMental Health Minnesota — $163,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetKENTE CIRCLE TRAINING INSTITUTE — $160,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetVENN FOUNDATION — $155,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAPPLE TREE DENTAL — $155,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMINNESOTA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION — $150,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc — $125,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER — $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST DAVID'S CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMinnesota Association of Community Mental Health Programs — $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNUWAY RECOVERY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWashburn Center for Children — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLEE CARLSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELL-BEING — $95,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHEARTH CONNECTION — $90,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNU-WAY HOUSE INC — $81,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHONORING CHOICES — $75,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetMINNESOTA COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER ALLIANCE — $75,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ORGANIZATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCAPI USA — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

Ucare FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…Medica FoundationOtto Bremer TrustGreater Twin Cities U…The Minneapolis Found…Allina Health SystemDelta Dental of Minne…Group Health IncMinnesota Historical …Fr Bigelow FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…
Ucare FoundationVA73.2× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ucare Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Medica Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Minneapolis Foundation · Allina Health System · Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundation · Group Health Inc · Minnesota Historical Society · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Pohlad Family 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 Ucare Minnesota 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    23report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 115 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $765 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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