· Public charity
United Way of Bemidji Area
UNITED WAY OF BEMIDJI AREA's mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $316,490 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $369,570 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,080 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK | $43,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE BEMIDJI AR | $38,000 |
| EVERGREEN HOUSE | $35,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE | $28,500 |
| NORTHWOODS BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER | $20,000 |
| VILLAGE OF HOPE | $18,500 |
| CHURCHES UNITED | $16,000 |
| BEMIDJI EARLY CHILDHOOD COLLABRATIV | $15,000 |
| BEMIDJI COMMUNITY TABLE | $14,000 |
| SUPPORT WITHIN REACH | $14,000 |
| ADULT DAY SERVICES | $14,000 |
| BEMIDJI COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF | $13,770 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE CONNECTIONS | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS | $8,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- EYEVERGREEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $276k · revenue +19%
- NCNORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +9%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE BEMIDJI AREA8× · 2017–2024 · $256k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- NCNAMELESS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +679%
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.
First call for Help of Itasca County is a private, nonprofit community organization whose mission is to provide free, confidential and nonjudgement crisis intervention, active listening, and information and referral services 24 hours a…
Crime and communities violence interve
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 provide services to mentally challenged adults
Our mission is to provide safe, temporary shelter for individuals and families experiencing housing insecurities, and connect them to community resources.
Providing direct and indirect services in the areas of mental health, developmental disabilites, and substance use to residents of aitkin, cass, crow wing, morrison, todd, and wadena counties.
To promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities and their families while supporting inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetime.
Cmnrp supports individuals as they transition back into the community after incarceration with housing, referrals to social service agencies and with encouragement. cmnrp has 4 transitional housing facilities and offers a regularly…
Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.
Ccm helps local governments achieve significant and measurable improvements by giving them the tools to be more efficient. we do this by providing private sector pro bono expertise to solve specific, tangible problems for governmental…
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bemidji Community Food Shelf Inc and the most unlike its peers is Society of St Vincent De Paul Crookston District Council. 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.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 28 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 EVERGREEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE BEMIDJI AREA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds OURS TO SERVE HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT WITHIN REACH ↗
- Who funds BEMIDJI COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT DAY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BEMIDJI SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEACEMAKER RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES IN SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds FACE IT TOGETHER BEMIDJI ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SERVEMINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Bemidji Early Childhood Collaborative ↗
- Who funds Society of St Vincent De Paul Crookston District Council ↗
- Who funds NAMELESS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds BI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC ↗
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: 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
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 Bemidji Area 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.