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United Way of Nobles County at a glance

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United Way of Nobles County

The purpose of the UNITED WAY OF NOBLES COUNTY is to raise and distribute funds for various nonprofit agencies through charitable giving.

$89k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
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$362kCommunity Improvement$275kPublic Safety & Disaster$83kFood & Nutrition$63kCrime & Legal$59kHealth$46kArts & Culture$46kHousing & Shelter$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $45,641, the rows itemized in this filing. The $88,641 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,000 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 $10k4 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$9,391
Median grant
1
States reached
$145k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA - WORTHINGTON AREA$10,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$9,750
IMAGINATION LIBRARY$9,391
FAMILY & COMMUNITY LIASIONS$8,500
EVERY MEAL$7,500
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, $288k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%YMCA & YPALS - WORTHINGTON AREA: $25k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 15%YMCA & YPALS - WORTHINGTON AREA: $25k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 15%YMCA & YPALS - WORTHINGTON AREA: $25k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $9k → 15%YMCA & YPALS - WORTHINGTON AREA: $25k → 11%YMCA - WORTHINGTON AREA: $24k → 11%YMCA - WORTHINGTON AREA: $22k → 11%YMCA - WORTHINGTON AREA: $21k → 11%YMCA & YPALS - WORTHINGTON AREA: $20k → 11%YMCA - WORTHINGTON AREA: $11k → 11%LOVE INC: $9k → 11%LOVE INC: $9k → 11%LOVE INC: $8k → 11%LOVE INC: $8k → 11%LOVE INC: $7k → 11%LOVE INC: $7k → 11%LOVE INC: $7k → 11%LOVE INC: $7k → 11%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.
$928k · 17 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
3

Total granted

$928k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+15%

Still filing today

71%
33%

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 ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WORTHINGTON INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $198k · revenue +11%
  • SM
    Southwestern MN Opportunity Council
    8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +54%
  • IL
    IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $59k · revenue +219%

Funded once

  • SM
    SAINT MARY'S SCHOOL - WORTHINGTON
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • WC
    WORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
  • WC
    Worthington Christian School Society
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +15%
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
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
2
West Central Initiative

Serving to improve west central minnesota through funding, programs, and technical assistance. vision of a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable world starts here in west central minnesota.

Philanthropy
3
South Metro Human Services

Radias health is a non-profit mental health & substance use disorders services organization customizing community based services through the integration of knowledge, compassion, and collaboration. we are committed to being an inclusive,…

Human Services
4
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
5
Southeast Minnesota Private Industry Council Inc

To develop and advance the workforce of southeast minnesota.

Employment
6
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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7
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
8
Working Partnerships Inc

To promote the well being of working minnesotans in minneapolis and the west metro region through charitable and educational activities.

Employment
9
West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
10
Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…

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11
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
12
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership; the most unlike its peers is Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota 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

14 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. 14 of the 21 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $58,900 · OtherIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESO…SW MN AMERICAN RED CROSS: $52,800 · OtherSW MN AMERICAN RED CROSSVOLUNTEERS IN MERCY: $52,200 · OtherVOLUNTEERS IN MERCYTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $45,845 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATIONINDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT518: $25,500 · OtherINDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT518IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $23,804 · OtherIMAGINATION LIBRARYCITY OF WORTHINGTON: $14,000 · Other+3 more: $19,500 · Other+3 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WORTHINGTON INC: $197,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATI…LOVE INC OF WORTHINGTON: $60,800 · Human ServicesLOVE INC OF WORTHINGTONAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $29,750 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & I…Southwestern MN Opportunity Council: $174,620 · Community ImprovementSouthwestern MN Opportunity C…SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATI…EVERY MEAL: $36,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,250 · Food & NutritionPROJECT MORNING STAR: $46,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST MINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $42,000 · Housing & ShelterSOUTHWEST CRISIS CENTER: $26,000 · Civil RightsVOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE: $22,000 · Employment
Other$292,549Human Services$288,050Community Improvement$274,620Food & Nutrition$56,250Health$46,000Housing & Shelter$42,000Civil Rights$26,000Employment$22,000

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 budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WORTHINGTON INC: $197,500 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetSouthwestern MN Opportunity Council: $174,620 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOVE INC OF WORTHINGTON: $60,800 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $58,900 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT MORNING STAR: $46,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $45,845 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST MINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $42,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY MEAL: $36,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $29,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST CRISIS CENTER: $26,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetVOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE: $22,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMANNA FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,250 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetWorthington Christian School Society: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WORTHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Southwestern MN Opportunity Council ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOVE INC OF WORTHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT MORNING STAR ↗
  • Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds MANNA FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Worthington Christian School Society ↗

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.

Worthington Regional …Southwest Initiative …Saint Paul & Minnesot…C K Blandin FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Worthington Regional Health Care Foundation IncMN20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Worthington Regional Health Care Foundation Inc · Southwest Initiative Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · C K Blandin Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Nobles County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Nobles County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    4report 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 21 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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