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United Way of Cass County Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

United Way of Cass County Inc

The mission of the organization is to increase the ability of the people of cass county to care for one another, to promote human services, and to maximize resources.

$275k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$970kFood & Nutrition$232kEducation$195kPhilanthropy$139kYouth Development$126kEmployment$56kPublic Safety & Disaster$51kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $265,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $275,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 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

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$34,620
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMY$59,633
FELIX'S PANTRY$55,000
CASS COUNTY YMCA$44,000
CASS COUNTY READING RAILROAD$34,620
CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC$29,380
FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK$22,000
OTHER 501C3'S LESS THAN 5000$10,367
BOY SCOUTS$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $644k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%American Red Cross: $15k → 16%American Red Cross: $13k → 16%American Red Cross: $13k → 16%American Red Cross: $11k → 16%Cass County YMCA: $47k → 13%CASS COUNTY YMCA: $44k → 13%Cass County YMCA: $44k → 13%Cass County YMCA: $44k → 13%CASS COUNTY YMCA: $44k → 13%Cass County YMCA: $44k → 13%CASS COUNTY YMCA: $44k → 13%Cass County Council Aging: $38k → 13%Cass County Council Aging: $35k → 13%Cass County Council Aging: $35k → 13%Cass County Council Aging: $34k → 13%CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $29k → 13%CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $29k → 13%CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $26k → 13%Peak Community Service: $25k → 13%Peak Community Service: $18k → 13%Peak Community Service: $13k → 13%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 9 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$1.7M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
0%

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyFood & 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

  • FF
    FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $137k · revenue +65%
  • PC
    PEAK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $56k · revenue +46%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2017–2021 · $51k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CASS COUNTY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · 46% of their budget
  • O
    OTHER
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • PM
    Project Matters
    one grant, 2019 · $11k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $432,325 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYBOY SCOUTS: $96,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTSLOGANSPORT COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORA: $79,583 · OtherLOGANSPORT COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORABIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CASS COUNTY INC: $30,000 · Other+3 more: $34,704 · OtherYoung Men's Christian Association of Cass County Inc: $311,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Cas…CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $226,348 · Human ServicesCASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INCPEAK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $55,500 · Human ServicesPEAK COMMUNITY SERVICES INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $51,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Consti…UNITED WAY OF CASS COUNTY INC: $338,570 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CASS CO…FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC: $137,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$672,612Human Services$643,848Philanthropy$338,570Food & Nutrition$137,000

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF CASS COUNTY INC: $338,570 over 8y, 9.6% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Cass County Inc: $311,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetCASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $226,348 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC: $137,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPEAK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $55,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $51,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CASS COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 46% 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 UNITED WAY OF CASS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Cass County Inc ↗
  • Who funds CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds PEAK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CASS COUNTY INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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 13 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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