· Public charity
United Way of Washington County-East
The mission of the united way of washington county - east is to unite our community and local resources to give each person the opportunity to build a better life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $469,670 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $496,147 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,477 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 $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY MEANS | $82,511 |
| COMMUNITY THREAD | $55,706 |
| CANVAS HEALTH | $48,915 |
| VALLEY OUTREACH | $45,895 |
| SOLID GROUND | $42,321 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF ST ANDREWS | $35,003 |
| YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU | $33,228 |
| TUBMAN - MAIN | $30,375 |
| EVOLVE | $19,771 |
| VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB | $14,253 |
| COURAGE ST CROIX | $12,812 |
| ST CROIX FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $12,050 |
| SILVER SOBRIETY | $10,000 |
| PORTICO HEALTHNET | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICE | $9,250 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- FFAMILYMEANS9× · 2017–2025 · $986k · revenue +21%
- VOValley Outreach9× · 2017–2025 · $586k · revenue +131%
- SGSolid Ground9× · 2017–2025 · $515k · revenue +369%
Funded once
- AHALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $13k · revenue +782%
- SSSILVER SOBRIETY INCone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue -10%
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.
The mission of mental health resources is to foster hope, health and recovery for people affected by mental illness and substance use disorder.
Strengthening lives, families, and communities through our cornerstone values.
Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.
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…
We provide a comprehensive, co occurring disorder-capable, community behavioral health center. we provide quality care using best practices designed to promote health, wellness, self-determination, and recovery. the service area is the…
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…
Our mission is to provide high quality, accessible mental health and human services which are:-Rooted in the belief that change is possible-Person-centered and designed to empower independence-Technically sound and informed by…
Mission: Fairview is driven to heal, discover and educate for longer, healthier lives. Vision: Fairview is driving a healthier future. Values: Dignity: We value the uniqueness of each person and work to ensure everyone's right to privacy.…
To empower and enrich our communities through comprehensive mental health and substance use treatment, one individual at a time.
Turning point community programs strives to set the standard for individualized care that provides hope for recovery.
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
For over 150 years, st. vincent's services, inc. (d/b/a heartshare st. vincent's services) has been a symbol of hope, compassion, and strength for vulnerable and under-resourced communities in new york city. (see on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Advantage Inc and the most unlike its peers is ESRInc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 27 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 FAMILYMEANS ↗
- Who funds Valley Outreach ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THREAD ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds CANVAS HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PORTICO HEALTHNET ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVOLVE Adoption & Family Services ↗
- Who funds HOPE DENTAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SERVEMINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB ↗
- Who funds ESRInc ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR COMMUNITY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds LIFETRACK RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SILVER SOBRIETY INC ↗
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: Hardenbergh Foundation · St Croix Valley Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Lakeview Memorial Hospital Association Inc · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Richard M Schulze Family 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 Washington County-East 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.