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.

United Way of Bemidji Area

United Way of Bemidji Area at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$370k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$43k

Largest

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 2024.

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

02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 18 grants below total $316,490, the rows itemized in this filing. The $369,570 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $53,080 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $37k
$10k–50k13 grants · $280k

$14,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
ADULT DAY SERVICES	$14,000
SUPPORT WITHIN REACH	$14,000
BEMIDJI COMMUNITY TABLE	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.4M · 25 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+679%

Still filing today

88%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

EY
EVERGREEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $276k · revenue +19%
NC
NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +9%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE BEMIDJI AREA
8× · 2017–2024 · $256k · revenue +135%

Funded once

NC
NAMELESS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESSgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +679%

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.

First Call for Help of Itasca County

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…

Health

Minnesota Acts Now

Crime and communities violence interve

Crime & Legal

Transitional Supported Employ of Mn

To provide services to mentally challenged adults

Employment

Care in Action Minnesota

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…

Human Services

Tailwinds Bemidji

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Oasis Central Minnesota Inc

Our mission is to provide safe, temporary shelter for individuals and families experiencing housing insecurities, and connect them to community resources.

Human Services

Northern Pines Mental Health Center

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.

Health

Arc Northland

To promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities and their families while supporting inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetime.

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Civic Consulting Minnesota

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…

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Family Pathways

Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.

Human Services

Central Mn Re-Entry Project

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…

Crime & Legal

Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bemidji Community Food Shelf Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 28 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/25

Grantees still filing

23/25

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,117,115Health$378,000Housing & Shelter$283,750Youth Development$255,500Human Services$172,720Food & Nutrition$118,770Religion$107,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Bemidji Area funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Bemidji Area. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

17report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home