How much does United Way of Ne Minnesota give?

United Way of Ne Minnesota reported 27 itemized grants totaling $606,000, out of $2,085,340 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Ne Minnesota fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Human Services (22%), Youth Development (15%).

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

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Happy Days Learning Center Inc ($532k), Range Transitional Housing Inc ($265k), Sexual Assault Program of Northern St Louis County ($250k).

Does United Way of Ne Minnesota fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

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

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northland Foundation, Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, Smdc Medical Center.

Where is United Way of Ne Minnesota based?

United Way of Ne Minnesota is based in MN.

United Way of Ne Minnesota

United Way of Ne Minnesota at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$2.1M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

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$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MYouth Development$716kHousing & Shelter$599kPublic Safety & Disaster$480kEducation$201kCrime & Legal$106kCommunity Improvement$81kOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 27 grants below total $606,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,085,340 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,479,340 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.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $21k
$10k–50k23 grants · $535k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BOIS FORTE BAND OF CHIPPEWA	$50,000
STAR OF THE NORTH MATERNITY HOME	$40,000
SECOND HARVEST NORTHERN LAKES FOOD BANK	$40,000
NORTHWOODS PARTNERS	$35,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HIBBING	$35,000
SEXUAL ASSAULT PROGRAM OF NSLC	$30,000
NSLC HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$30,000
RANGE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC	$30,000
CARE PARTNERS	$29,000
ELY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER	$25,000
VOLUNTEERS IN EDUCATION	$25,000
PROJECT CARE	$25,000
CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES	$23,000
ELY COMMUNITY RESOURCE INC	$20,000
SALVATION ARMY - KOOCHICHING COUNTY	$20,000

02The need

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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.9M · 38 repeat orgs$803k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.9M

$735k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+147%

Still filing today

82%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

RT
RANGE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +182%
NP
Northwoods Partners
9× · 2017–2025 · $249k · revenue +108%
SH
Second Harvest Northland
9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +159%

Funded once

HD
HAPPY DAYS LEARNING CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $532k · revenue +147%
BF
BRANDIE FOLKKENBRANDIE'S LITTLE BEAR LEARNING CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $90k
IR
IRON RANGE TYKES
one grant, 2019 · $63k

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.

Arc Northland

To promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities and their families while supporting inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetime.

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First Call for Help of Itasca County

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…

Health

Care in Action Minnesota

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…

Human Services

Family Pathways

Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.

Human Services

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

Northland Counseling Center Inc

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…

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Northern Pines Mental Health Center

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.

Health

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

Northland Health Care Access

Operating an integrated community health system providing access to health care for the uninsured low income residents of three counties in Missouri

Health

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

Hilltop Regional Kitchen

Serve fresh and frozen meals to seniors, disabled and homebound individuals in central MN. Over 60,000 meals served annually to over 400 individuals.

Food & Nutrition

Arrowhead Library System

Arrowhead library system enhances the value of all types of libraries to their communities by cultivating collaboration, technological innovation, and professional development; and enriches the quality of life by providing direct services…

Education

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 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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 46 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/36

Grantees still filing

24/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,772,724Health$933,637Human Services$690,950Education$681,725Housing & Shelter$265,000Youth Development$209,100Recreation & Sports$164,500

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

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.

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.

Northland FoundationMN54× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home