· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOMEPLACE SAFE | $20,181 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $18,750 |
| NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK | $12,463 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSSOMEPLACE SAFE9× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +101%
- NCNORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +9%
- LSLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST MINNESOTA2× · 2019–2020 · $16k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- CCCARING CONNECTIONS FAMILY ADVOCACYone grant, 2019 · $42k
- OBOTTO BREMER TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue -85%
- FFFERGUS FALLS 544 EDUCATION FOUNDATIone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue -12%
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.
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.
To maximize community resources and mobilize the caring power to help people in need in Becker County, MN.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.
Establish relationships between siouxland youth and mature, responsible screened adult volunteers.
To provide resources that promote independence and healthy aging.
Guiding star wakota provides women and families conpassionate care, empowering them to choose life and supporting them on the parenting journey.
The association of minnesota counties is a voluntary non-partisan statewide organization that assists the state's 87 counties in providing effective county governance to the people of minnesota.
Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…
We bring food to neighbors, help vulnerable people find home, and provide empowering employment through our community-supported social enterprise and collaborative partnerships.the 2023 990 was for 10/1-12/31/23 due to an accounting period…
To assist seniors in maintaining optimal health, independence, and socialization, deferring admission to long term care facilities and improving their quality of life.
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To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SOMEPLACE SAFE ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP OF THE PERHAM AREA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DETROIT LAKES ↗
- Who funds OTTO BREMER TRUST ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS 544 EDUCATION FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds A PLACE TO BELONG ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Otter Tail & Wadena Counties Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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