· Public charity
United Way of Carlton and Pine County Area
United way fights for the health, education, financial security, and basic needs of every person in every community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $49,365 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $66,569 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,204 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 · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY | $17,411 |
| CARLTON COUNTY COLLABORATIVE | $10,454 |
| JUST KIDS DENTAL | $7,500 |
| FIRST WITNESS | $7,500 |
| TRI-COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF | $6,500 |
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, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +21% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 13 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
- RERECREATIONAL EXPERIENCES ACHIEVING COMMUNITY HARMONY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $278k · revenue +10%
- HDHUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +23%
- LALEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA5× · 2020–2024 · $104k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- WLWESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -30%
- YLYOUNG LIFEone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +10%
- SHSAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMENone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue -1%
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 team compassionately and respectfully addresses the legal needs of vulnerable populations to provide timely access to justice empowering our community with education and knowledge.
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To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
To improve access to quality health care for all.
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Team evangelism and discipleship
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Head of the Lakes United Way and the most unlike its peers is Just Kids Dental Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 21 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 RECREATIONAL EXPERIENCES ACHIEVING COMMUNITY HARMONY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds TRI COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds JUST KIDS DENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED DEPENDING ON OTHER WO ↗
- Who funds VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds MOOSE LAKE AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CARLTON CTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN ↗
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: Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Northland Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way · Minnesota Power Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Ordean Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Second Harvest Northland · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Carlton and Pine County 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.