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United Way of Bemidji Area

UNITED WAY OF BEMIDJI AREA's mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community. Our focus on advancing the common good creates a meaningful difference in the lives of area children, youth, aging adults and their caregivers, people in crisis and people with mental and physical disabilities by focusing on the…

$370k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Itemized grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$316k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$14,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$43,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations United Way of Bemidji Area funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Community ImprovementHealthHuman ServicesHousing & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$316k11%
FY202320$346k20%
FY202220$322k5%
FY202119$306k5%
FY202017$285k0%
FY201919$294k5%
FY201818$294k11%
FY201717$271kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$570kFood & Nutrition$488kHealth$378kYouth Development$351kHuman Services$313kPublic Safety & Disaster$107kCommunity Improvement$84kCrime & Legal$83kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United Way of Bemidji Area supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEvergreen Youth & Family Services Inc: $276,250 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetNorth Country Food Bank Inc: $275,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of the Bemidji Area: $255,500 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetCommunity Support Systems Inc: $210,500 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetOurs to Serve House of Hospitality: $186,500 over 8y, 10% of budgetNorthwoods Battered Women's Shelter Inc: $161,500 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetSupport Within Reach: $127,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetBemidji Community Food Shelf Inc: $118,770 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetChurches United Inc: $107,000 over 8y, 21% of budgetAdult Day Services Inc: $95,500 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetNorthwoods Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Program: $78,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetCommunity Resource Connections Inc: $61,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetBemidji Senior Center: $56,365 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetYouth Investment Foundation: $56,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPeacemaker Resources: $48,500 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetOpportunities in Science Inc: $35,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLegal Services of Northwest Minnesota: $34,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFace It Together Bemidji: $25,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetSpecial Olympics Minnesota Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetServeminnesota: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVoyageurs Area Council: $16,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBemidji Early Childhood Collaborative: $15,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetSociety of St Vincent De Paul Crookston District Council: $14,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetNameless Coalition for the Homeless: $7,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBi-County Community Action Programs Inc: $7,220 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Northwest Minnesota FoundationMN47.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwest Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · C K Blandin Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · George W Neilson Foundation · North Country Food Bank Inc · The Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Initiative Foundation · Communitygiving · Midcontinent Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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.

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About United Way of Bemidji Area

How much does United Way of Bemidji Area give?
United Way of Bemidji Area reported 18 itemized grants totaling $316,490, out of $369,570 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does United Way of Bemidji Area fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (23%), Food & Nutrition (20%), Health (16%).
Who are United Way of Bemidji Area's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Evergreen Youth & Family Services Inc ($276k), North Country Food Bank Inc ($275k), Boys & Girls Club of the Bemidji Area ($256k).
Does United Way of Bemidji Area fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Bemidji Area?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwest Minnesota Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, C K Blandin Foundation.
Where is United Way of Bemidji Area based?
United Way of Bemidji Area is based in MN.

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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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