· Public charity
United Way of Mower County Inc
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $577k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $695k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUSTIN ASPIRES INC | $130,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES | $90,408 |
| COMPREHENSIVE HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| NEXUS GERARD FAMILY HEALING | $65,000 |
| COMPREHENSIVE HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| PACELLI CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INC | $60,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES | $50,000 |
| SEMCAC | $50,000 |
| HORMEL HISTORIC HOME | $49,018 |
| MOWER COUNTY SENIORS INC | $49,000 |
| CEDAR VALLEY SERVICES INC | $40,000 |
| HORMEL HISTORIC HOME | $40,000 |
| LIFE MOWER COUNTY | $40,000 |
| CHANNEL ONE FOOD BANK | $36,601 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PRPARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +26%
- CDCHILDRENS DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +118%
- NFNEXUS FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY HEALING4× · 2021–2025 · $770k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CHCOMPREHENSIVE HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $80k
- MCMOWER COUNTY HFAone grant, 2017 · $62k
- CVCRIME VICTIM'S RESOURCE CENTERone grant, 2017 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Provide training and habilitation services for developmentally disabled adults.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Service enterprises, inc. of minnesota through effective partnerships, provides quality vocational training, job opportunities, habilitative and other services to individuals with disabilities to promote their independence and active…
Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.
Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.
Training and day services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
To promote healthy individuals, families and communities by providing high quality, accessible behavioral healthcare.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cedar Valley Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is WagonWheels Hub. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 39 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEXUS FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY HEALING ↗
- Who funds WELCOME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN ASPIRES INC ↗
- Who funds MOWER COUNCIL FOR THE HANDICAPPED ↗
- Who funds HORMEL HISTORIC HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SEMCAC ↗
- Who funds LIFE MOWER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MOWER COUNTY SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR BRANCH DEVELOPMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FREEBORNMOWER ↗
- Who funds APPLE LANE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TWIN VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SERVEMINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY IS HAPPENING ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL ONE INC ↗
- Who funds NEXUS FAMILY HEALING ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MINNESOTA WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WagonWheels Hub ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust · Otto Bremer Trust · Rochester Area Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mayo Clinic · Geo A Hormel Testamentary Trust · Astrup Family Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · United Way of Southeast Minnesota · Hardenbergh Foundation
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 Mower County Inc 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.
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.