· Public charity
United Way of Steele County
To change lives by mobilizing and optimizing the caring power of our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $553,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $593,251 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $39,551 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $309k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE COUNTY | $80,200 |
| STEELE COUNTY TRANSITIONAL HOUSING | $67,500 |
| LET'S SMILE INC | $61,000 |
| OWATONNA HEALTHY SENIORS PROGRAM | $50,000 |
| CRISIS RESOURCE CENTER | $50,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $45,000 |
| SOMALI AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF OWATONNA | $40,000 |
| EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR FAMILY UNITY | $35,000 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA | $30,000 |
| BLOOMING PRAIRIE YOUTH CLUB | $25,000 |
| MEDFORD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| CEDAR VALLEY SERVICES | $17,000 |
| HEALTHFINDERS COLLABORATIVE INC | $15,000 |
| SEMCAC | $13,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $373k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CPCOMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $548k · revenue +356%
- SCSTEELE COUNTY TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC8× · 2017–2024 · $456k · revenue +48%
- OHOWATONNA HEALTHY SENIORS PROGRAM8× · 2017–2024 · $342k · revenue +23% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- I#ISD #763 SACone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.
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Training and day services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Mn Regional Legal Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blooming Prairie Youth Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 23 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 WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF STEELE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds STEELE COUNTY TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds OWATONNA HEALTHY SENIORS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN MN ↗
- Who funds LETS SMILE ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR FAMILY UNITY ↗
- Who funds BLOOMING PRAIRIE YOUTH CLUB ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds STEELE COUNTY CLOTHESLINE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SOMALI AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF OWATONNA ↗
- Who funds HealthFinders Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds SEMCAC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL HUMAN RELATIONS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RACHELS LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OWATONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 761 FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Steele County 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.