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United Way of Steele County

To change lives by mobilizing and optimizing the caring power of our community.

$593k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Itemized grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$554k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$80,200
Organizations funded a year
15 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations United Way of Steele County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthOther
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
FY2024still arriving13$524k0%
FY202315$530k0%
FY202218$551k6%
FY202115$550k7%
FY202016$539k0%
FY201916$524k0%
FY201818$517k6%
FY201719$506kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$757kHuman Services$756kFood & Nutrition$635kCivil Rights$554kHousing & Shelter$546kYouth Development$537kEducation$206kCrime & Legal$154kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of United Way of Steele County by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Women's Resource Center of Steele County Inc$553,500830%
Community Pathways of Steele County$547,70089%
Steele County Transitional Housing Inc$456,482816%
Owatonna Healthy Seniors Program$342,000839%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Mn$286,00084%
Lets Smile$277,500823%
Exchange Club Center for Family Unity$248,775832%
Blooming Prairie Youth Club$192,500819%
Cedar Valley Services Inc$184,50080%
Steele County Clothesline Inc$157,820441%
Southern Mn Regional Legal Services Inc$154,00060%
Southeast Minnesota Private Industry Council Inc$125,45060%
Somali American Cultural Society of Owatonna$117,500525%
Free Clinic of Steele County$116,0004n/a
HealthFinders Collaborative Inc$103,50042%
Semcac$87,25080%
Medford Independent School District$78,5604n/a
South Central Human Relations Center Inc$75,50070%
Rachels Light Inc$60,000218%
Childrens Remedial Fund$58,0006n/a
Owatonna Independent School District No 761 Foundation$12,50021%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

United Way of Steele County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWomen's Resource Center of Steele County Inc: $553,500 over 8y, 30% of budgetCommunity Pathways of Steele County: $547,700 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetSteele County Transitional Housing Inc: $456,482 over 8y, 16% of budgetOwatonna Healthy Seniors Program: $342,000 over 8y, 39% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Mn: $286,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetLets Smile: $277,500 over 8y, 23% of budgetExchange Club Center for Family Unity: $248,775 over 8y, 32% of budgetBlooming Prairie Youth Club: $192,500 over 8y, 19% of budgetCedar Valley Services Inc: $184,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSteele County Clothesline Inc: $157,820 over 4y, 41% of budgetSouthern Mn Regional Legal Services Inc: $154,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSoutheast Minnesota Private Industry Council Inc: $125,450 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSomali American Cultural Society of Owatonna: $117,500 over 5y, 25% of budgetHealthFinders Collaborative Inc: $103,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSemcac: $87,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Central Human Relations Center Inc: $75,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetRachels Light Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetOwatonna Independent School District No 761 Foundation: $12,500 over 2y, 1.4% 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 18.

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.

Otto Bremer TrustMN30.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Medica Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Rochester Area Foundation · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · United Way of Mower County Inc · Mayo Clinic · Minnesota Community Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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 Steele County

How much does United Way of Steele County give?
United Way of Steele County reported 14 itemized grants totaling $553,700, out of $593,251 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does United Way of Steele County fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (18%), Human Services (18%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
Who are United Way of Steele County's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Women's Resource Center of Steele County Inc ($554k), Community Pathways of Steele County ($548k), Steele County Transitional Housing Inc ($456k).
Does United Way of Steele County fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Steele County?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Medica Foundation.
Where is United Way of Steele County based?
United Way of Steele County 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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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