· Public charity
United Way of 1000 Lakes
United way's mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of itasca-area communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $120,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $144,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMART NORTH | $20,000 |
| ITASCA COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $15,000 |
| ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $15,000 |
| ITASCA YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $10,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY PEACE | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHLAND | $10,000 |
| SUPPORT WITHIN REACH | $10,000 |
| GRACE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| PROJECT CARE FREE CLINIC | $7,500 |
| PROJECT READ | $7,500 |
| FIRST CALL | $5,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $370k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ICITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $147k · revenue +59%
- BCBOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH7× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +25%
- EELDERCIRCLE5× · 2017–2021 · $96k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- IINITIATIVESone grant, 2017 · $20k
- IAITASCA AREA SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2024 · $15k
- SWSUPPORT WITHIN REACHone grant, 2017 · $11k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, strengthen families and prevent childhood maltreatment, by providing timely crucial support that meets the basic needs of local families and…
To promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities and their families while supporting inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetime.
The Minnesota Children's Alliance leads the development and growth of locally based children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access to services for healing and growth.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.
Minnesota Recovery Connection's mission is to strengthen the recovery community through peer-to-peer support, public education and advocacy.
Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.
The Service Center offers a variety of programs including but not limited to: emergency food shelf and food commodities programs for mothers with small children and seniors; monthly supplemental food programs for seniors and the disabled;…
Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) empowers families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
World Youth Connect builds communities across cultures and beyond borders. By creating and encouraging civic engagement opportunities we help young people gain the skills and experience they need to be successful. World Youth Connect…
Reaching out to young people everywhere to raise up life-long followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the Word of God and prayer, passion for sharing the love of Christ, and commitment to social involvement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Itasca County Family Ymca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Itasca County Habitat for Humanity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH ↗
- Who funds ELDERCIRCLE ↗
- Who funds Advocates for Family Peace ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST NORTH CENTRAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT WITHIN REACH ↗
- Who funds ITASCA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LEECH LAKE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CARE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Itasca County Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds SMART NORTH ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE OF ITASCA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KOOTASCA COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Northland Counseling Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST CALL FOR HELP OF ITASCA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Alliance With Youth ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES KINSHIP MENTORING ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation · Northland Foundation · C K Blandin Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Second Harvest Northland · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Second Harvest North Central Food Bank · Mardag Foundation · Deer River Healthcare Center Inc · United Way of Ne Minnesota · Smdc Medical Center
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 United Way of 1000 Lakes 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.
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.