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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.

$67k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Youth Development$374kHealth$282kCrime & Legal$268kHuman Services$148kFood & Nutrition$131kPhilanthropy$111kEducation$110kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $49,365, the rows itemized in this filing. The $66,569 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,204 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$549k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED: $9k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $8k → 10%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $8k → 10%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $8k → 10%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $7k → 10%CARLTON YOUTH SHELTER: $5k → 10%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 18 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
3

Total granted

$1.5M
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-1%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RE
    RECREATIONAL EXPERIENCES ACHIEVING COMMUNITY HARMONY INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $278k · revenue +10%
  • HD
    HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +23%
  • LA
    LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $104k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • WL
    WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -30%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +10%
  • SH
    SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue -1%
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.

1
Legal Services of North Dakota

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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2
Central Mn Council of Boy Scouts of America

It is the mission of the boy scouts of america to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the scout law and oath.

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3
Volunteer Lawyers Network Ltd

Volunteer lawyers network protects and promotes the basic human needs of people in poverty through the power of legal volunteers.

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4
Children's Law Center of Minnesota

Children's law center of minnesota promotes and protects the legal rights and well-being of children and youth through legal advocacy, educational outreach, and policy reform.

Crime & Legal
5
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
6
Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota

To provide legal assistance in noncriminal proceedings to persons financially unable to afford legal assistance in northwest minnesota.

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7
Arrowhead Library System

Arrowhead library system enhances the value of all types of libraries to their communities by cultivating collaboration, technological innovation, and professional development; and enriches the quality of life by providing direct services…

Education
8
Watertown Lutheran Senior Housing Inc

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.

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9
Lake Superior Community Health Center

To improve access to quality health care for all.

Health
10
Lutheran Social Services Housing Inc

Lss housing will support the continued vitality of north dakota communities by providing housing and housing-related services.

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11
Legal Aid of Manasota Inc

Legal aid of manasota provides legal services at no or low cost to those in need by partnering with local lawyers.

Crime & Legal
12
West Central Minnesota Youth for Christ

Team evangelism and discipleship

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Head of the Lakes United Way; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARLTON COUNTY: $116,844 · OtherCARLTON COUNTYSALVATION ARMY: $80,650 · OtherSALVATION ARMYALANO SOCIETY OF CARLTON COUNTY INC: $72,520 · OtherALANO SOCIETY OF CARLTON COUNTY I…WOMEN IN NEED DEPENDING ON OTHER WO: $55,997 · OtherWOMEN IN NEED DEPENDING ON OTHER …VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL: $52,673 · OtherVOYAGEURS AREA COUNCILVOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM: $36,264 · OtherVOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAMNORTHERN LIGHTS COMMUNITY ACTION: $15,513 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherRECREATIONAL EXPERIENCES ACHIEVING COMMUNITY HARMONY INC: $277,693 · Youth DevelopmentRECREATIONAL EXPERIENCES…GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL: $33,970 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA…+1 more: $9,500 · Youth DevelopmentHUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $148,275 · HealthHUMAN DEVELOPMENT …JUST KIDS DENTAL INC: $88,020 · HealthJUST KIDS DENTAL I…LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA: $103,524 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID SER…FIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $71,758 · Crime & LegalFIRST WITNESS…TRI COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $94,785 · Food & NutritionTRI COMMUN…MOOSE LAKE AREA FOOD SHELF: $36,500 · Food & NutritionMOOSE LAKE…HEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY: $111,290 · PhilanthropyLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $41,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $9,430 · Human ServicesCARLTON CTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13,057 · Arts & Culture
Other$440,461Youth Development$321,163Health$236,295Crime & Legal$175,282Food & Nutrition$131,285Philanthropy$111,290Human Services$50,430Arts & Culture$13,057

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRECREATIONAL EXPERIENCES ACHIEVING COMMUNITY HARMONY INC: $277,693 over 7y, 21% of budgetHUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $148,275 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY: $111,290 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetLEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA: $103,524 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTRI COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $94,785 over 9y, 22% of budgetJUST KIDS DENTAL INC: $88,020 over 9y, 6.1% of budgetFIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $71,758 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED DEPENDING ON OTHER WO: $55,997 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetVOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL: $52,673 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $41,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMOOSE LAKE AREA FOOD SHELF: $36,500 over 4y, 18% of budgetVOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM: $36,264 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL: $33,970 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCARLTON CTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13,057 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetWESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $9,430 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Duluth-Superior Area …Northland FoundationHead of the Lakes Uni…Minnesota Power Found…Otto Bremer TrustOrdean FoundationSmdc Medical CenterMightycause Charitabl…Second Harvest Northl…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Duluth-Superior Area Community FoundationMN26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Carlton and Pine County Area funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Carlton and Pine County Area. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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