How much does United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc give?

United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc reported 3 itemized grants totaling $51,394, out of $186,816 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Crime & Legal (28%), Food & Nutrition (20%).

Who are United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Someplace Safe ($226k), Salvation Army ($160k), North Country Food Bank Inc ($138k).

Does United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include West Central Initiative, Otto Bremer Trust, Otter Tail Power Company Foundation.

Where is United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc based?

United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc

To improve the lives in otter tail & wadena counties by mobilizing the caring powers in our communities.

$187k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 3
Itemized grants FY2025: 6
Organizations funded FY2024: 33%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $51k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $18,750
Largest grant, FY2025: $20,181
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 10; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	3	$51k	0%
FY2024	6	$122k	33%
FY2023	5	$94k	20%
FY2022	4	$70k	25%
FY2021	3	$54k	0%
FY2020	7	$79k	0%
FY2019	10	$139k	30%
FY2018	7	$89k	0%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$258kCrime & Legal$242kFood & Nutrition$172kPhilanthropy$80kYouth Development$58kEducation$34kScience & Tech$22kHealth$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Someplace Safe	$225,924	9	1%
Salvation Army	$160,020	9	n/a
North Country Food Bank Inc	$138,208	9	0%
Fergus Falls Public Schools Isd#544	$52,720	4	n/a
Kinship of the Perham Area	$29,150	4	16%
Boys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes	$28,500	4	0%
Otto Bremer Trust	$21,873	1	0%
Fergus Falls Area Family YMCA	$18,160	3	0%
Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota	$15,700	2	0%
Childrens Services Association	$11,575	2	n/a

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All grantees of United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Someplace Safe	$225,924	9	1%
Salvation Army	$160,020	9	n/a
North Country Food Bank Inc	$138,208	9	0%
Fergus Falls Public Schools Isd#544	$52,720	4	n/a
Kinship of the Perham Area	$29,150	4	16%
Boys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes	$28,500	4	0%
Otto Bremer Trust	$21,873	1	0%
Fergus Falls Area Family YMCA	$18,160	3	0%
Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota	$15,700	2	0%
Childrens Services Association	$11,575	2	n/a
Fergus Falls 544 Education Foundati	$7,500	1	2%
A Place to Belong	$6,000	1	3%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($76k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

West Central InitiativeMN21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: West Central Initiative · Otto Bremer Trust · Otter Tail Power Company Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · The Barry Foundation · Communitygiving · Saint Paul & Minnesota 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.

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About United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc

How much does United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc give?: United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc reported 3 itemized grants totaling $51,394, out of $186,816 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Crime & Legal (28%), Food & Nutrition (20%).
Who are United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Someplace Safe ($226k), Salvation Army ($160k), North Country Food Bank Inc ($138k).
Does United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include West Central Initiative, Otto Bremer Trust, Otter Tail Power Company Foundation.
Where is United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc based?: United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc is based in MN.