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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 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 2023.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Ucare Minnesota’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 92%.

Ucare Minnesotalessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Family Practice Health Center; 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.
05the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 115 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ORGANIZATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesACCESS PRESS LTD: $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 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 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 budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF DULUTH: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIDGEVIEW MEDICAL CENTER: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHSOURCE: $220,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEXUS FAMILY HEALING: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFairview Physician Associates Network: $200,000 over 1y, 4.9% 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 budgetNorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER: $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNUWAY RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMinnesota Association of Community Mental Health Programs: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetST DAVID'S CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetMINNESOTA COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER ALLIANCE: $75,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetHONORING CHOICES: $75,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetINDIAN HEALTH BOARD OF MINNEAPOLIS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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

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 Minnesota funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ucare Minnesota. 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
    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
    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 115 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $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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