How much does United Way of Central Minnesota give?

United Way of Central Minnesota reported 36 itemized grants totaling $1,003,725, out of $1,091,935 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Central Minnesota fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (52%), Youth Development (21%), Education (6%).

Who are United Way of Central Minnesota's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud ($3.4M), Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota ($1.7M), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mn ($861k).

Does United Way of Central Minnesota fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Central Minnesota?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communitygiving, Morgan Family Foundation, Initiative Foundation.

Where is United Way of Central Minnesota based?

United Way of Central Minnesota is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

United Way of Central Minnesota

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of central minnesota. Because change doesn't happen alone.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 36
Itemized grants FY2025: 40
Organizations funded FY2024: 10%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.0M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,900
Largest grant, FY2025: $183,500
Organizations funded a year: 30 to 43; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $3.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations United Way of Central Minnesota funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	36	$1.0M	14%
FY2024	40	$1.5M	10%
FY2023	41	$1.9M	24%
FY2022	35	$1.5M	14%
FY2021	30	$1.2M	23%
FY2020	43	$1.9M	21%
FY2019	37	$1.8M	3%
FY2018	39	$1.9M	10%

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud	$3,379,670	9	3%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota	$1,676,115	9	4%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mn	$861,200	9	15%
Anna Marie's Alliance	$685,848	9	4%
Salvation Army	$614,705	9	n/a
Tri-County Action Program Inc	$526,683	9	1%
Independent Lifestyles Inc a Center for Independent Living	$419,426	9	1%
Place of Hope	$405,118	8	n/a
Child Care Choices Inc	$404,321	9	0%
Central Minnesota Council on Aging Inc	$368,071	9	1%

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All grantees of United Way of Central Minnesota by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud	$3,379,670	9	3%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota	$1,676,115	9	4%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mn	$861,200	9	15%
Anna Marie's Alliance	$685,848	9	4%
Salvation Army	$614,705	9	n/a
Tri-County Action Program Inc	$526,683	9	1%
Independent Lifestyles Inc a Center for Independent Living	$419,426	9	1%
Place of Hope	$405,118	8	n/a
Child Care Choices Inc	$404,321	9	0%
Central Minnesota Council on Aging Inc	$368,071	9	1%
Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance	$349,160	9	0%
Serveminnesota	$348,712	7	0%
Reach Up Inc	$289,848	9	n/a
The Dollywood Foundation	$251,298	2	0%
Sauk Rapids-Rice School District	$250,219	4	n/a
City of St Cloud	$240,634	7	n/a
Central Minnesota Sexual Assault Center	$216,859	9	4%
Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin Lakes and Pines Council	$213,779	6	2%
Central Minnesota Mental Health Center	$184,603	5	0%
District 742 Schools	$171,583	7	n/a
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	$169,309	9	n/a
Promise Neighborhood of Central Minnesota	$167,369	8	17%
The Yes Network	$162,982	9	4%
St Cloud Area Family YMCA	$153,513	7	1%
Youth for Christ Inc Central Minnesota	$134,781	9	2%
Village Family Service Center	$131,063	8	0%
Central Mn Council of Boy Scouts of America	$129,319	6	3%
Stearns-Benton Employment and Training	$126,655	8	n/a
Cross Center of Benton County	$101,229	9	14%
District 742 Local Education Activities Foundation	$92,250	4	16%
Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College	$82,500	4	n/a
Great River Educational Arts Theatre	$81,575	4	2%
Ellison Center	$81,527	4	4%
The Center for Victims of Torture	$76,400	5	0%
Islamic Center of St Cloud	$68,250	3	n/a
Align Learning Center	$65,925	2	56%
Habitat for Humanity International Inc	$60,917	3	0%
Community Grassroots Solutions	$56,010	4	n/a
Greater Twin Cities United Way	$54,191	4	0%
Great River Childrens Museum	$49,140	2	2%
To Much Talent	$49,041	3	5%
Avivo	$47,917	3	0%
Hands Across the World	$46,690	4	31%
Higher Works Collaborative	$46,141	3	3%
Rocori Area Schools	$39,305	3	n/a
Central Minnesota Dementia Community Action Network	$39,000	1	10%
Outreach Inc	$35,127	1	1%
Feeding Area Children Together	$33,250	4	10%
Hearts in Action	$31,962	2	n/a
United Way of Cass-Clay	$29,501	3	0%
Arc Midstate	$26,822	2	n/a
Cathedral High School	$26,576	3	n/a
Central Mn Re-Entry Project	$26,156	3	n/a
Conflict Resolution Center	$24,057	2	n/a
Center for African Immigrants and Refugees Organization	$23,935	1	0%
Friends of Career Solutions	$23,475	1	4%
Head of the Lakes United Way	$21,500	1	1%
The Arc Minnesota Inc	$21,136	2	0%
D Blake Center	$20,738	1	n/a
Brothers & Sisters United International	$20,560	1	n/a
Central Minnesota Islamic Center	$20,000	1	n/a
Greater Minnesota Family Services	$19,500	2	0%
Connectability of Mn Inc	$19,500	2	0%
Greater St Cloud Development Corporation	$17,500	2	1%
The Sanneh Foundation	$17,500	1	0%
City of Grace Education Support Center	$16,000	1	n/a
Eradicating Achievement Gap & Learning Empowerment Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Central Minnesota Community Empowerment Organization	$15,000	1	n/a
Center City Housing Corp	$15,000	1	0%
American Reading Company	$14,730	1	n/a
Central Minnesota Sustainability Project	$14,000	2	n/a
United Way of Southeast Minnesota	$12,978	2	0%
Sioux Empire United Way Inc	$11,040	2	0%
St Cloud Hospital	$10,200	1	0%
The Beautiful Mind Project	$10,000	1	n/a
Youth Leadership Initiative	$9,599	1	3%
Minnesota Housing Partnership	$7,803	1	0%
SOLUTIONS Behavioral Healthcare Professionals PC	$6,175	1	0%
Minnesota Computers for Schools	$6,140	1	0%
Fahan Organization	$6,100	1	n/a
Centracare Clinic	$6,020	1	0%
Veterans on the Lake Resort	$5,726	1	n/a
Waite Park Somali Community Association	$5,600	1	n/a
Goodwill Industries Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Homeless Helping Homeless	$5,000	1	1%

United Way of Central Minnesota supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 56.

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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.

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

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.

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About United Way of Central Minnesota

How much does United Way of Central Minnesota give?: United Way of Central Minnesota reported 36 itemized grants totaling $1,003,725, out of $1,091,935 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Central Minnesota fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (52%), Youth Development (21%), Education (6%).
Who are United Way of Central Minnesota's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud ($3.4M), Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota ($1.7M), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mn ($861k).
Does United Way of Central Minnesota fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Central Minnesota?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communitygiving, Morgan Family Foundation, Initiative Foundation.
Where is United Way of Central Minnesota based?: United Way of Central Minnesota is based in MN.