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United Way of Douglas & Pope Counties

Mobilizing douglas and pope county resources to create sustained changes in community conditions to improve lives.

$412k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$39k
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.

Human Services$591kCrime & Legal$442kCommunity Improvement$394kFood & Nutrition$299kEducation$268kHealth$75kYouth Development$43kRecreation & Sports$25k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $184,796, the rows itemized in this filing. The $411,739 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $226,943 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.
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$746k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST CENTRAL MN COMMUNITIES ACTION$38,500
NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK$32,796
SOMEPLACE SAFE$31,000
VILLAGE FAMILY SERVICES$25,000
LEGAL SERVICES$20,000
BRANDON EVANSVILLE SCHOOLS$15,000
ALEXANDRIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS$12,500
MINNEWASKA ECFE$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, $385k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ELDER NETWORK: $12k → 9%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $13k → 14%ELDER NETWORK: $11k → 9%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $13k → 14%ELDER NETWORK: $10k → 9%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 14%ELDER NETWORK: $10k → 9%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $36k → 9%ELDER NETWORK: $10k → 9%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $35k → 9%ELDER NETWORK: $9k → 9%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $34k → 9%ELDER NETWORK: $9k → 9%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $33k → 9%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $33k → 9%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $28k → 9%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $26k → 9%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $26k → 9%ALEXANDRIA AREA YMCA: $7k → 9%ALEXANDRIA YMCA: $6k → 9%ALEXANDRIA YMCA: $6k → 9%ALEXANDRIA YMCA: $6k → 9%ALEXANDRIA AREA YMCA: $5k → 9%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 17 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
1

Total granted

$2.1M
$5k

Still filing today

53%
0%

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
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WC
    WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA COMMUNITIES ACTION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $394k · revenue +49%
  • NC
    NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $299k · revenue +9%
  • SS
    SOMEPLACE SAFE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $283k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • AA
    ALEXANDRIA AREA UNCOMPENSATED CARE PLAN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…

Human Services
2
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
3
Minnesota Chapter of the National Childrens Alliance

The Minnesota Children's Alliance leads the development and growth of locally based children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access to services for healing and growth.

Crime & Legal
4
FamilyWise Services

Strengthening families by promoting the safety, stability and wellbeing of children.

Health
5
Keystone Community Services

To strengthen the capacity of individuals and families to improve their quality of life.

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6
Association of Minnesota Counties

The association of minnesota counties is a voluntary non-partisan statewide organization that assists the state's 87 counties in providing effective county governance to the people of minnesota.

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7
Minnesota Leadership Council On Aging

The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.

Education
8
Minnesota Alliance On Crime

The minnesota alliance on crime connects systems, service providers, and victims to advance the response for victims of all crime.

Human Services
9
Northwest Community Action Inc

Our mission is to stimulate a focusing of all available resources upon the goal of enabling area low-income families and individuals of all ages to attain skills, knowledge, and motivations, and secure the opportunities needed for them to…

Human Services
10
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

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11
Family Safety Network of Cass County Inc

To provide domestic abuse advocacy to parents and children of cass, hubbard and clearwater counties.

Human Services
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota; the most unlike its peers is West Central Minnesota Communities Action 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

9 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. 9 of the 18 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)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $299,476 · OtherNORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INCSOMEPLACE SAFE: $283,029 · OtherSOMEPLACE SAFEIND SCHOOL DIST 206: $245,952 · OtherIND SCHOOL DIST 206Village Family Service Center: $165,353 · OtherVillage Family Service CenterLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST MINNESOTA: $159,300 · OtherLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST MINNESOTAMINNEWASKA AREA SCHOOLS: $50,000 · Other+7 more: $155,100 · Other+7 moreWEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA COMMUNITIES ACTION INC: $393,800 · Community ImprovementWEST CENTRAL MINNESO…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $250,776 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERV…CENTRAL MINNESOTA ELDER NETWORK: $70,300 · Human ServicesCENTRAL MINNESOTA EL…SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $34,870 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMILIES FOR CH…Alexandria Area Young Men's Christian Association: $29,000 · Human ServicesAlexandria Area Youn…
Other$1,358,210Community Improvement$393,800Human Services$384,946

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA COMMUNITIES ACTION INC: $393,800 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $299,476 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSOMEPLACE SAFE: $283,029 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $250,776 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVillage Family Service Center: $165,353 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST MINNESOTA: $159,300 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCENTRAL MINNESOTA ELDER NETWORK: $70,300 over 7y, 22% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $34,870 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAlexandria Area Young Men's Christian Association: $29,000 over 5y, 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 WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA COMMUNITIES ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds SOMEPLACE SAFE ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds Village Family Service Center ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL MINNESOTA ELDER NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Alexandria Area Young Men's Christian Association ↗

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.

CommunitygivingWest Central Initiati…Otto Bremer TrustMidcontinent Foundati…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Amazonsmile Foundation
CommunitygivingMN19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communitygiving · West Central Initiative · Otto Bremer Trust · Midcontinent Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Douglas & Pope Counties funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Douglas & Pope Counties. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 18 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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