· Public charity
United Way of Southeast Minnesota
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA is an agent of community change that inspires hope, creates opportunity, and champions people in need.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 43 grants below total $1,124,647 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,297,129 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $172,482 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 $10k16 grants · $117k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $576k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $432k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILIES FIRST OF MINNESOTA | $98,048 |
| BARBERSHOP & SOCIAL SERVICES | $90,000 |
| SPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY (SMA) | $80,122 |
| ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION | $63,450 |
| CHANNEL ONE REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $50,602 |
| LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY (LAOC) | $50,000 |
| BEAR CREEK SERVICES INC | $45,999 |
| WOMEN'S SHELTER AND SUPPORT CENTER | $45,770 |
| FAMILY SERVICE ROCHESTER INC | $42,200 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY ROCHESTER MINNESOTA | $41,252 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICE INC | $40,003 |
| GOOD NEWS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC | $35,905 |
| CENTER CITY HOUSING CORPORATION | $35,000 |
| INTERCULTURAL MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION (IMAA) | $33,199 |
| FAMILY PROMISE ROCHESTER | $31,038 |
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, $5.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- FSFAMILY SERVICE ROCHESTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +33%
- CCCHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +66%
- COCHANNEL ONE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $837k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- RPROCHESTER PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $91k · revenue -46%
- SASOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +31%
- ECEARLY CARE AND EDUCATION INNOVATIONS LLCone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue 0%
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.
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Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities by providing innovative services that promote inclusion and self-determination.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.
The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…
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To improve access to quality health care for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Winona Volunteer Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arch to Philanthropy. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 110 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 FAMILY SERVICE ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL ONE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCULTURAL MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds CENTER CITY HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds ABILITY BUILDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds BEAR CREEK SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CIVIC LEAGUE DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DODGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds NAMI SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds ELDER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BARBERSHOP & SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY IS HAPPENING ↗
- Who funds NEXT CHAPTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds POSSABILITIES OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds DIVERSITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds GAMEHAVEN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THRIVE FAMILY RESOURCE 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: Rochester Area Foundation · Mayo Clinic · Otto Bremer Trust · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Channel One Inc · Mardag Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Winona Community Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy 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 Southeast 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.