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United Way of Southwest Minnesota

The UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA invests donations into our communities primarily through community impact grants. We focus on four key areas: youth opportunity, healthy communities, financial security, and community resilience. Programs that receive funding are carefully selected based on their significant impact on the lives of…

$316k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Itemized grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$286k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$15,526
Largest grant, FY2025
$63,691
Organizations funded a year
8 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$787k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations United Way of Southwest Minnesota funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman 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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$286k11%
FY202411$286k18%
FY20238$269k0%
FY20228$261k0%
FY202111$300k27%
FY202010$280k10%
FY20199$273k11%
FY201815$295k40%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$678kFood & Nutrition$546kCrime & Legal$366kHuman Services$357kCommunity Improvement$348kYouth Development$144kHealth$91kInternational$27kOther$0

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Community Action Partnership Inc$675,80390%
United Way of Southwest Minnesota$643,546923%
New Horizons Crisis Center$408,328910%
Womens Rural Advocacy Programs$195,50987%
Serveminnesota$117,70080%
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota$105,18570%
Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc$78,01490%
Marshall Food4kids$56,014716%
Neighbors United Resource Center$35,554220%
Redwood County Children's Advocacy Center (Redwood County)$32,5002n/a
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All grantees of United Way of Southwest Minnesota by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Community Action Partnership Inc$675,80390%
United Way of Southwest Minnesota$643,546923%
New Horizons Crisis Center$408,328910%
Womens Rural Advocacy Programs$195,50987%
Serveminnesota$117,70080%
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota$105,18570%
Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc$78,01490%
Marshall Food4kids$56,014716%
Neighbors United Resource Center$35,554220%
Redwood County Children's Advocacy Center (Redwood County)$32,5002n/a
Junior Achievement North$27,00030%
Junior Achievement$25,7643n/a
Marshall Area Young Mens Christian Association$25,50021%
Tyler Area Food Shelf$15,0001n/a
Granite Falls Living at Home Block Nurse Program$14,5002n/a
Outreach Inc$13,50010%
Safe Avenues$12,00011%
Loaves and Fishes Too$10,49520%
Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ$8,8001n/a
Foundation for Innovation in Education$8,000117%
Hope Harbor$7,7001n/a
Southwest Minnesota State University Foundation$6,21210%
Isd #403 - Ivanhoe Public School$6,2001n/a
Lake Benton Community Services$5,5001n/a
Marshall Public School 0413-01$5,3131n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$5,00010%
Southwest Health and Human Services$5,0001n/a
Child Care & Nutrition Inc$5,00010%
Western Mental Health Center Inc$5,00010%
City of Marshall$5,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United Way of Southwest Minnesota supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Community Action Partnership Inc: $675,803 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Southwest Minnesota: $643,546 over 9y, 23% of budgetNew Horizons Crisis Center: $408,328 over 9y, 10% of budgetWomens Rural Advocacy Programs: $195,509 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetServeminnesota: $117,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $105,185 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPrairie Five Community Action Council Inc: $78,014 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMarshall Food4kids: $56,014 over 7y, 16% of budgetNeighbors United Resource Center: $35,554 over 2y, 20% of budgetJunior Achievement North: $27,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMarshall Area Young Mens Christian Association: $25,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOutreach Inc: $13,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSafe Avenues: $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLoaves and Fishes Too: $10,495 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Innovation in Education: $8,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSouthwest Minnesota State University Foundation: $6,212 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Care & Nutrition Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Mental Health Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 19.

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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.

Southwest Initiative …Otto Bremer TrustCommunitygivingInitiative FoundationLand O'Lakes Foundati…The Carr Family Found…Hunger Solutions Minn…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Southwest Minnesota A…Edina Realty Foundati…First Children's Fina…Xcel Energy Foundation
Southwest Initiative FoundationMN35.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southwest Initiative Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Communitygiving · Initiative Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Carr Family Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Southwest Minnesota Arts Council · Edina Realty Foundation · First Children's Finance · Xcel Energy 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 Southwest Minnesota

How much does United Way of Southwest Minnesota give?
United Way of Southwest Minnesota reported 15 itemized grants totaling $285,544, out of $316,305 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Southwest Minnesota fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Food & Nutrition (21%), Crime & Legal (14%).
Who are United Way of Southwest Minnesota's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Community Action Partnership Inc ($676k), United Way of Southwest Minnesota ($644k), New Horizons Crisis Center ($408k).
Does United Way of Southwest Minnesota fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Southwest Minnesota?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Southwest Initiative Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Communitygiving.
Where is United Way of Southwest Minnesota based?
United Way of Southwest Minnesota is based in MN.

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 31 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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