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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.

$316k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$678kFood & Nutrition$546kCrime & Legal$366kHuman Services$357kCommunity Improvement$348kYouth Development$144kHealth$91kInternational$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $285,544 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $316,305 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,761 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $214k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
$15,526
Median grant
1
States reached
$787k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMAGINATION LIBRARY$63,691
UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PTSHP$32,500
NEW HORIZONS CRISIS CENTER$26,388
UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PTSHP$23,572
UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PTSHP$16,840
NEW HORIZONS CRISIS CENTER$16,000
SERVEMINNESOTA$16,000
STUFF THE BUS$15,526
MARSHALL FOOD4KIDS$14,000
WILD ABOUT KINDERGARTEN$13,327
PRAIRIE FIVE COMMUNITY ACTION$10,000
UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PTSHP$10,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$10,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MN$10,000
HOPE HARBOR$7,700
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $358k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SAFE AVENUES: $12k → 9%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA: $21k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS SERVING SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA: $5k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA: $18k → 11%LIVING AT HOMEBLOCK NURSING PROGRAM: $8k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA: $17k → 11%LIVING AT HOMEBLOCK NURSING PROGRAM: $7k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MN: $17k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES - SENIOR NUTRITION PROGRAM: $13k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MN: $11k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MN: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $29k → 11%WOMEN'S RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $28k → 11%WOMEN'S RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $28k → 11%WOMEN'S RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $27k → 11%WOMEN'S RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $26k → 11%WOMEN'S RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $23k → 11%WOMEN'S RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $20k → 11%WOMEN'S RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $18k → 11%MARSHALL AREA YMCA: $13k → 11%MARSHALL AREA YMCA: $13k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 15 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
14

Total granted

$2.5M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+12%

Still filing today

87%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementInternationalEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $676k · revenue +116%
  • NH
    NEW HORIZONS CRISIS CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $408k · revenue +20%
  • WR
    WOMENS RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $196k · revenue +346%

Funded once

  • TA
    TYLER AREA FOOD SHELF
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • OI
    OUTREACH INC
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -18%
  • SA
    SAFE AVENUES
    one grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United Way of 1000 Lakes

United way's mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of itasca-area communities. our vision is an equitable itasca area where all people have the opportunities and resources needed to thrive.

Philanthropy
2
Second Harvest Heartland

Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.

Food & Nutrition
3
Minnesota Acts Now

Crime and communities violence interve

Crime & Legal
4
Ywca Metropolitan Chicago

The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
5
Youthlink

To be a community in which all youth, without regard to their living situation, have an equal opportunity to pursue and achieve their goals and dreams. the agency does this by supporting, resourcing, and empowering young people on their…

Human Services
6
Mental Health Resources Inc

The mission of mental health resources is to foster hope, health and recovery for people affected by mental illness and substance use disorder.

—
7
Neighborhood House

Since 1897, when the women of mount zion temple created a safe haven for jewish refugees fleeing persecution in russia, neighborhood house has been a stronghold in the st. paul community, helping all people in need. a welcoming presence…

Community Improvement
8
Wellshare International

The mission of wellshare international is to advance sustainable community health around the world. wellshare international focuses its resources where it can have the greatest impact on the health of underserved and vulnerable…

International
9
Salt Lake Community Action Program

The mission of salt lake community action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-sufficiency programs.

—
10
Ucare Minnesota

Ucare will improve the health of our members through innovative services and partnerships across communities.

Health
11
Environmental Initiative

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

Environment
12
Nexus-Path Family Healing

Strengthening lives, families, and communities through our cornerstone values.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Granite Falls Living At Home Block Nurse Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%0%<5yr12%13%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr20%42%20–35yr17%17%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr20%43%20–35yr17%19%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/31
the rest of the field
11%
505/4,799

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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC — $675,803 · Community ImprovementUNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHI…SERVEMINNESOTA — $117,700 · Community ImprovementSERVEMINNESOTAUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA — $643,546 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MINN…NEW HORIZONS CRISIS CENTER — $408,328 · OtherNEW HORIZONS CRISIS CENTERPrairie Five Community Action Council Inc — $78,014 · OtherPrairie Five Community Acti…REDWOOD COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER (REDWOOD COUNTY) — $32,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT — $25,764 · Other+10 more — $71,308 · Other+10 moreWOMENS RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMS — $195,509 · Human ServicesWOMENS RURAL AD…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $105,185 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL…MARSHALL AREA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $25,500 · Human ServicesMARSHALL AREA Y…GRANITE FALLS LIVING AT HOME BLOCK NURSE PROGRAM — $14,500 · Human ServicesSAFE AVENUES — $12,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesMARSHALL FOOD4KIDS — $56,014 · Food & NutritionNEIGHBORS UNITED RESOURCE CENTER — $35,554 · Food & NutritionCHILD CARE & NUTRITION INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH — $27,000 · InternationalOUTREACH INC — $13,500 · InternationalFOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION IN EDUCATION — $8,000 · EducationSOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $6,212 · EducationHOPE HARBOR — $7,700 · Housing & Shelter
Community Improvement$793,503Philanthropy$643,546Other$615,914Human Services$357,694Food & Nutrition$96,568International$40,500Education$14,212Housing & Shelter$7,700

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetMINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

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

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 Southwest 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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