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United Way of Central Minnesota

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of central minnesota.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$184k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$7.8MYouth Development$3.1MEducation$879kHealth$710kCommunity Improvement$520kReligion$493kCrime & Legal$399kArts & Culture$397kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 36 grants below total $1,003,725 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,091,935 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $88,210 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 $10k6 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $562k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
$15,900
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD$183,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA$109,050
ANNAMARIE'S ALLIANCE$55,800
SALVATION ARMY$51,400
CHILD CARE CHOICES INC DBA MILESTONES$49,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA$46,500
ST CLOUD AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT 742$43,000
ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY$40,000
CITY OF ST CLOUD RSVP & WHITNEY SENIOR CENTER$31,200
TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM$26,000
MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL AID-ST CLOUD$25,000
FRIENDS OF CAREER SOLUTIONS$23,475
INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES$20,000
SERVE MINNESOTA$20,000
ROCORI EARLY CHILDHOOD$18,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CENTRAL MN COUNCIL ON AGING: $59k → 11%CENTRAL MN COUNCIL ON AGING: $59k → 11%CENTRAL MN COUNCIL ON AGING: $53k → 11%INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES: $54k → 9%CENTRAL MN COUNCIL ON AGING: $37k → 11%INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES: $53k → 9%CENTRAL MN COUNCIL ON AGING: $37k → 11%INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES: $53k → 9%CENTRAL MN COUNCIL ON AGING: $37k → 11%INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES: $52k → 9%CENTRAL MN COUNCIL ON AGING: $37k → 11%INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES: $50k → 9%INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES: $50k → 9%AVIVO: $20k → 11%CENTRAL MN COUNCIL ON AGING: $34k → 11%INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES: $45k → 9%AVIVO: $20k → 11%INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES: $43k → 9%AVIVO: $8k → 11%INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES: $20k → 9%CENTRAL MN COUNCIL ON AGING: $15k → 11%PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD OF CENTRAL MN: $26k → 6%TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $108k → 11%PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD OF CENTRAL MN: $23k → 6%TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $74k → 11%TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $69k → 11%TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $67k → 11%TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $65k → 11%PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD OF CENTRAL MN: $15k → 6%TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $40k → 11%TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $40k → 11%TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $38k → 11%TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $26k → 11%ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE: $96k → 11%ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE: $82k → 11%CENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS: $24k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $324k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $317k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $316k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $283k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $184k → 11%ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE: $60k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 59 repeat orgs$381k to everyone else

59 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
21

Total granted

$14M
$324k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+24%

Still filing today

69%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +59%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +44%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $861k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • CM
    CENTRAL MINNESOTA DEMENTIA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK
    one grant, 2023 · $39k · revenue -20%
  • OI
    OUTREACH INC
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -18%
  • CENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ORGANIZATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $24k · revenue +61%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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2
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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3
Community Resource Connections Inc

Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.

Community Improvement
4
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
5
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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6
Cornerstone Advocacy Service

Cornerstone disrupts violence through advocacy, support, and prevention. We partner with individuals, families, and organizations to build communities free of harm.

Human Services
7
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
8
Central Minnesota Legal Services

The mission of central minnesota legal services is to advocate for access to the civil justice system for low income people by providing high quality legal services and to improve the lives of people living in poverty by empowering…

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9
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
10
Leadership Matters Mn

Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

Education
11
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
12
Senior Community Services

Our mission is empowering people as they age.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southeast Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Central Minnesota Islamic Center. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersYouth & Family Support Serv…Youth Education & Developme…Member-Owned Recreation Clu…Neighborhood Revitalization…Food Assistance & Hunger Re…Youth Sports LeaguesCharter SchoolsImmigrant & Refugee Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%6%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr14%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr18%9%20–35yr14%41%35–55yr14%46%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/87
the rest of the field
15%
1,570/10,689

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 87 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/63
Grantees still filing
39/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN — $861,200 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MNSALVATION ARMY — $614,705 · OtherSALVATION ARMYPLACE OF HOPE — $405,118 · OtherPLACE OF HOPECHILD CARE CHOICES INC — $404,321 · OtherCHILD CARE CHOICES INCMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE — $349,160 · OtherMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCEREACH UP INC — $289,848 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $251,298 · OtherSAUK RAPIDS-RICE SCHOOL DISTRICT — $250,219 · OtherCITY OF ST CLOUD — $240,634 · OtherCENTRAL MINNESOTA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER — $216,859 · Other+47 more — $2,312,095 · Other+47 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD — $3,379,670 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CL…ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE — $685,848 · Human ServicesANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCETRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $526,683 · Human ServicesTRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INCINDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES INC A CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $419,426 · Human ServicesINDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES INC A CENTER FOR IN…CENTRAL MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $368,071 · Human ServicesCENTRAL MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON AGING INC+4 more — $244,221 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA — $1,676,115 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS C…GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL — $213,779 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF…+2 more — $27,099 · Youth DevelopmentSERVEMINNESOTA — $348,712 · Community ImprovementDISTRICT 742 LOCAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES FOUNDATION — $92,250 · Community ImprovementGREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $17,500 · Community ImprovementCENTRAL MINNESOTA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER — $184,603 · HealthCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $99,542 · HealthELLISON CENTER — $81,527 · HealthCENTRAL MINNESOTA DEMENTIA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK — $39,000 · HealthGREATER MINNESOTA FAMILY SERVICES — $19,500 · Health+3 more — $22,395 · HealthTHE YES NETWORK — $162,982 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AREA CHILDREN TOGETHER — $33,250 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITYGIVING — $89,241 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $54,191 · PhilanthropyHEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY — $21,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA — $12,978 · Philanthropy
Other$6,195,457Human Services$5,623,919Youth Development$1,916,993Community Improvement$458,462Health$446,567Food & Nutrition$196,232Philanthropy$177,910

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD — $3,379,670 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA — $1,676,115 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN — $861,200 over 9y, 15% of budgetANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE — $685,848 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetTRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $526,683 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES INC A CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $419,426 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetCHILD CARE CHOICES INC — $404,321 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $368,071 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE — $349,160 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSERVEMINNESOTA — $348,712 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $251,298 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL MINNESOTA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER — $216,859 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL — $213,779 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCENTRAL MINNESOTA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER — $184,603 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA — $167,369 over 8y, 17% of budgetTHE YES NETWORK — $162,982 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetSt Cloud Area Family YMCA — $153,513 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST INC CENTRAL MINNESOTA — $134,781 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetVillage Family Service Center — $131,063 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $129,319 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetCROSS CENTER OF BENTON COUNTY — $101,229 over 9y, 14% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $99,542 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDISTRICT 742 LOCAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES FOUNDATION — $92,250 over 4y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITYGIVING — $89,241 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE — $81,575 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetELLISON CENTER — $81,527 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE — $76,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAlign Learning Center — $65,925 over 2y, 56% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $60,917 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $54,191 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $49,140 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTO MUCH TALENT — $49,041 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetAVIVO — $47,917 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS ACROSS THE WORLD — $46,690 over 4y, 31% of budgetHIGHER WORKS COLLABORATIVE — $46,141 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCENTRAL MINNESOTA DEMENTIA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK — $39,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetOUTREACH INC — $35,127 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFEEDING AREA CHILDREN TOGETHER — $33,250 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetUnited Way of Cass-Clay — $29,501 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ORGANIZATION — $23,935 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAREER SOLUTIONS — $23,475 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY — $21,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ARC MINNESOTA INC — $21,136 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTABILITY OF MN INC — $19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER MINNESOTA FAMILY SERVICES — $19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER CITY HOUSING CORP — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN ↗
  • Who funds ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES INC A CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
  • Who funds CHILD CARE CHOICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE ↗
  • Who funds SERVEMINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL MINNESOTA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL MINNESOTA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds THE YES NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds St Cloud Area Family YMCA ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC CENTRAL MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds Village Family Service Center ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds CROSS CENTER OF BENTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DISTRICT 742 LOCAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITYGIVING ↗
  • Who funds GREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds ELLISON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
  • Who funds Align Learning Center ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL 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.

CommunitygivingMorgan Family Foundat…Initiative FoundationOtto Bremer TrustGranite Partners Foun…Rick and Helga Bauerl…Central Minnesota Art…Xcel Energy FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…Central Mn Noon Optim…The Affinity Plus Fed…The Optimist Club of …
CommunitygivingMN84.9× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Morgan Family Foundation · Initiative Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation · Central Minnesota Arts Board · Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc · The Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union Foundation · The Optimist Club of St Cloud

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 Central Minnesota 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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