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· Public charity

United Way of Mower County Inc

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$130k
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.

Health$4.2MHuman Services$3.4MEducation$1.2MHousing & Shelter$738kEmployment$649kYouth Development$634kCrime & Legal$534kArts & Culture$239kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $577k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $695k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HORMEL HISTORIC HOME$40,000
CEDAR VALLEY SERVICES INC$40,000
LIFE MOWER COUNTY$40,000
CHANNEL ONE FOOD BANK$36,601
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SEMCAC: $152k → 8%CEDAR BRANCH: $52k → 10%SEMCAC: $50k → 8%CEDAR BRANCH DEVELOPMENTAL ACHIEVEM: $52k → 10%SEMCAC: $40k → 8%CEDAR BRANCH DEVELOPMENT ACHIEVMENT: $45k → 10%SEMCAC: $40k → 8%CEDAR BRANCH DEVELOPMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $43k → 10%SEMCAC: $40k → 8%SEMCAC: $35k → 8%SEMCAC: $35k → 8%SEMCAC: $33k → 8%NEXUS FOUNDATION - GERARD FAMILY HEALING: $262k → 11%NEXUS FOUNDATION - GERARD FAMILY HEALING: $70k → 11%NEXUS FOUNDATION - GERARD ACADEMY FUND: $65k → 11%NEXUS GERARD FAMILY HEALING: $65k → 11%NEXUS FOUNDATION - GERARD ACADEMY FUND: $238k → 10%PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $207k → 10%PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $189k → 10%PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER: $147k → 10%PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $119k → 10%PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $119k → 10%PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $105k → 10%PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $95k → 10%PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $94k → 10%PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER: $92k → 10%PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $87k → 10%PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER: $85k → 10%NEXUS-GERARD FAMILY HEALING: $70k → 10%MOWER COUNCIL FOR THE HANDICAPPED: $65k → 10%MOWER COUNCIL FOR THE HANDICAPPED: $61k → 10%MOWER COUNCIL FOR THE HANDICAPPED: $60k → 10%ARC MOWER COUNTY: $52k → 10%ARC - MOWER COUNTY: $52k → 10%MOWER COUNTY SENIORS INC: $50k → 10%MOWER COUNTY SENIORS INC: $49k → 10%MOWER COUNTY SENIORS INC: $48k → 10%MOWER COUNTY SENIORS INC: $45k → 10%MOWER COUNTY SENIOR CENTER INC: $45k → 10%MOWER COUNCIL FOR THE HANDICAPPED INC: $44k → 10%LIFE MOWER COUNTY: $42k → 10%LIFE MOWER COUNTY: $42k → 10%MOWER COUNTY SENIORS INC: $42k → 10%LIFE MOWER COUNTY: $40k → 10%MOWER COUNCIL FOR THE HANDICAPPED INC: $39k → 10%MOWER COUNCIL FOR THE HANDICAPPED INC: $39k → 10%MOWER COUNTY SENIORS INC: $38k → 10%LIFE MOWER COUNTY: $35k → 10%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 33 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
5

Total granted

$12M
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+27%

Still filing today

76%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 ServicesHealthEmploymentCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PR
    PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +26%
  • CD
    CHILDRENS DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +118%
  • NF
    NEXUS FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY HEALING
    4× · 2021–2025 · $770k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CH
    COMPREHENSIVE HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $80k
  • MC
    MOWER COUNTY HFA
    one grant, 2017 · $62k
  • CV
    CRIME VICTIM'S RESOURCE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
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
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
2
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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3
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
4
Winona County Development Achievement Center Inc

Provide training and habilitation services for developmentally disabled adults.

Employment
5
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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6
Service Enterprises Inc of Minnesota

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…

Employment
7
Dakotabilities Inc

Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.

Human Services
8
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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9
Possabilities of Southern Minnesota

Training and day services for individuals with developmental disabilities.

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10
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
11
Lakeland Mental Health Center Inc

To promote healthy individuals, families and communities by providing high quality, accessible behavioral healthcare.

Health
12
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cedar Valley Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 39 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $787,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYWELCOME CENTER INC: $727,500 · OtherWELCOME CENTER INCHORMEL HISTORIC HOME INC: $437,323 · OtherHORMEL HISTORIC HOME INCAUSTIN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INC: $437,235 · OtherAUSTIN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INCCEDAR VALLEY SERVICES INC: $319,000 · OtherCEDAR VALLEY SERVICES INCMAYO CLINIC: $257,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN MINNESOTA: $244,500 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUS…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FREEBORNMOWER: $187,000 · OtherTWIN VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $180,500 · OtherADAMS AREA AMBULANCE SERVICE: $159,000 · Other+9 more: $538,786 · Other+9 morePARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,337,770 · Human ServicesPARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INCNEXUS FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY HEALING: $770,001 · Human ServicesNEXUS FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY HEALINGMOWER COUNCIL FOR THE HANDICAPPED: $471,195 · Human ServicesMOWER COUNCIL FOR THE HANDICAPPEDSEMCAC: $435,000 · Human ServicesSEMCACLIFE MOWER COUNTY: $388,572 · Human ServicesLIFE MOWER COUNTYMOWER COUNTY SENIORS INC: $380,600 · Human ServicesMOWER COUNTY SENIORS INCCEDAR BRANCH DEVELOPMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $191,500 · Human ServicesAPPLE LANE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER: $186,638 · Human Services+2 more: $40,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $1,070,000 · HealthCHILDRENS DENTAL HE…COMPREHENSIVE HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION: $906,089 · HealthCOMPREHENSIVE HUMAN…RECOVERY IS HAPPENING: $78,910 · HealthAUSTIN ASPIRES INC: $631,368 · Community ImprovementSERVEMINNESOTA: $81,500 · Community ImprovementGIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC: $323,248 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTHEAST MINNESOTA PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC: $205,000 · EmploymentCOMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC: $115,000 · EmploymentSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC: $105,000 · Crime & LegalNEXUS FAMILY HEALING: $45,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$4,274,844Human Services$4,201,276Health$2,054,999Community Improvement$712,868Youth Development$323,248Employment$320,000Crime & Legal$150,000

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 budgetPARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,337,770 over 8y, 19% of budgetCHILDRENS DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $1,070,000 over 9y, 21% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION: $906,089 over 9y, 100% of budgetNEXUS FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY HEALING: $770,001 over 4y, 22% of budgetWELCOME CENTER INC: $727,500 over 6y, 93% of budgetAUSTIN ASPIRES INC: $631,368 over 6y, 35% of budgetMOWER COUNCIL FOR THE HANDICAPPED: $471,195 over 9y, 48% of budgetHORMEL HISTORIC HOME INC: $437,323 over 9y, 17% of budgetSEMCAC: $435,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetLIFE MOWER COUNTY: $388,572 over 9y, 33% of budgetMOWER COUNTY SENIORS INC: $380,600 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC: $323,248 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY SERVICES INC: $319,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN MINNESOTA: $244,500 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetSOUTHEAST MINNESOTA PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC: $205,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCEDAR BRANCH DEVELOPMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $191,500 over 4y, 27% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY FREEBORNMOWER: $187,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetAPPLE LANE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER: $186,638 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetTWIN VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $180,500 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $141,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC: $105,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSERVEMINNESOTA: $81,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERY IS HAPPENING: $78,910 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCHANNEL ONE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEXUS FAMILY HEALING: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN MINNESOTA WOMENS CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Hormel Foods Corporat…Otto Bremer TrustRochester Area Founda…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mayo ClinicGeo A Hormel Testamen…Astrup Family Foundat…Mayo Clinic Group Ret…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…United Way of Southea…Hardenbergh Foundation
Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable TrustMN38.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    10report 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
    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 39 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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