· Public charity
United Way of Ne Minnesota
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our 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.
The 27 grants below total $606,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,085,340 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,479,340 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $535k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOIS FORTE BAND OF CHIPPEWA | $50,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST NORTHERN LAKES FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| STAR OF THE NORTH MATERNITY HOME | $40,000 |
| NORTHWOODS PARTNERS | $35,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HIBBING | $35,000 |
| SEXUAL ASSAULT PROGRAM OF NSLC | $30,000 |
| RANGE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC | $30,000 |
| NSLC HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $30,000 |
| CARE PARTNERS | $29,000 |
| PROJECT CARE | $25,000 |
| ELY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $25,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES | $23,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY - KOOCHICHING COUNTY | $20,000 |
| JUSTICE NORTH | $20,000 |
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, $691k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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 +33% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- RTRANGE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC9× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +182%
- NPNorthwoods Partners9× · 2017–2025 · $249k · revenue +34%
- SHSecond Harvest Northland9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- HDHAPPY DAYS LEARNING CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $532k · revenue 0%
- BFBRANDIE FOLKKENBRANDIE'S LITTLE BEAR LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2020 · $90k
- IRIRON RANGE TYKESone grant, 2019 · $63k
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.
To promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities and their families while supporting inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetime.
First call for Help of Itasca County is a private, nonprofit community organization whose mission is to provide free, confidential and nonjudgement crisis intervention, active listening, and information and referral services 24 hours a…
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.
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…
Northland Counseling Center, Inc. is dedicated to providing a variety of services to people who may be experiencing mental health, chemical dependency, or co-occurring issues. By applying best practices in teaching life changing skills, it…
Operating an integrated community health system providing access to health care for the uninsured low income residents of three counties in Missouri
Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.
Providing direct and indirect services in the areas of mental health, developmental disabilites, and substance use to residents of aitkin, cass, crow wing, morrison, todd, and wadena counties.
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…
Our mission is "Partnering to Create a Healthier Community." NorthPoint seeks to reduce health disparities, improve health outcomes, and enhance the overall quality of life for all residents of North Minneapolis
Strengthening families by promoting the safety, stability and wellbeing of children.
Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Together for Life Northland. 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.
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 42 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 46 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 HAPPY DAYS LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RANGE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Sexual Assault Program of Northern St Louis County ↗
- Who funds Northwoods Partners ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Northland ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CARE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Care Partners ↗
- Who funds BOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH ↗
- Who funds Advocates for Family Peace ↗
- Who funds CHICAGAMI ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Together For Life Northland ↗
- Who funds ELY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Ely Community Resource Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SERVEMINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS AGAINST ABUSE ↗
- Who funds ARROWHEAD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds VOYAGEURS AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RANGE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds FLOODWOOD SERVICES AND TRAINING INC ↗
- Who funds Angel Fund ↗
- Who funds KOOCHICHING COUNTY FOOD ACCESS ↗
- Who funds MESABI FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN ↗
- Who funds EAST RANGE DEVELOPMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER ↗
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: Northland Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Arsher Charitable Trust · Owens Family Charitable Foundation · Initiative Foundation · Security State Bank 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 Ne 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.
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.