Minnesota · 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $98,048
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations United Way of Southeast Minnesota 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; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $1.1M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $1.2M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $1.4M | 3% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $1.5M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $1.7M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $1.7M | 16% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $2.0M | 17% |
| FY2018 | 48 | $1.9M | 21% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Service Rochester Inc | $1,943,550 | 9 | 4% |
| Child Care Resource & Referral Inc | $1,158,755 | 9 | 1% |
| Channel One Inc | $837,251 | 9 | 1% |
| Intercultural Mutual Assistance Association of Southeastern Minnesota | $834,286 | 9 | 4% |
| Salvation Army | $635,634 | 8 | n/a |
| Independent School District 535 | $502,898 | 8 | n/a |
| Center City Housing Corp | $450,291 | 9 | 1% |
| Ability Building Center Inc | $422,199 | 9 | 1% |
| The Dollywood Foundation | $411,791 | 3 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $376,965 | 4 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Southeast Minnesota supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 77 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About United Way of Southeast Minnesota
- How much does United Way of Southeast Minnesota give?
- United Way of Southeast Minnesota reported 43 itemized grants totaling $1,124,647, out of $1,297,129 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Southeast Minnesota fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (44%), Health (12%), Education (7%).
- Who are United Way of Southeast Minnesota's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Family Service Rochester Inc ($1.9M), Child Care Resource & Referral Inc ($1.2M), Channel One Inc ($837k).
- Does United Way of Southeast Minnesota fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Southeast Minnesota?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Foundation, Mayo Clinic, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is United Way of Southeast Minnesota based?
- United Way of Southeast Minnesota is based in MN.
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