· Public charity
Wright County Area United Way
To unite contributors, providers and users of human services, and others through federated fundraising campaigns, programs of planning and evaluation and the distribution of funds to agencies in a voluntary and cooperative effort to meet current and emerging needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $143,233 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $159,333 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,100 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTICELLO SCHOOL DISTRICT | $32,000 |
| BUFFALO HIGH SCHOOL | $31,500 |
| WRIGHT COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES | $18,500 |
| WRIGHT CO COMM ACTION WCCA | $15,233 |
| TIMBER BAY YOUTH INVEST | $11,000 |
| KNIGHTS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| RIVERS OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| MONTICELLO HELP CENTER | $7,500 |
| HANOVER AREA FOOD SHELF | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 29% 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.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2020, 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
- MCMONTICELLO CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES INC4× · 2017–2020 · $53k · revenue +135%
- YIYOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $52k · revenue +24%
- WCWRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC3× · 2018–2020 · $29k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- FYFAMILY YOUTH COMMUNITY CONNECTIONSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +56%
- CHCENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEMgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +202%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rivers of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Hanover Area Food Shelf Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 MONTICELLO CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEXUS-KINDRED FAMILY HEALING ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HANOVER AREA FOOD SHELF INC ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds FAMILY YOUTH COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds CENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
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: Wright-Hennepin Electric Trust · The Graco Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Wright County Area United Way 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.
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