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· 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.

$159k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$189kHuman Services$184kYouth Development$80kFood & Nutrition$41kHealth$29kCrime & Legal$28k
02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $143,233, the rows itemized in this filing. The $159,333 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,100 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $128k
$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$105k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HANOVER AREA FOOD SHELF$7,500
MONTICELLO HELP CENTER$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%TIMBER BAY YOUTH INVEST: $15k → 11%TIMBER BAY YOUTH INVEST: $15k → 11%MONTICELLO FOOD SHELF: $16k → 5%TIMBER BAY YOUTH INVEST: $11k → 11%MONTICELLO HELP CENTER: $16k → 5%TIMBER BAY YOUTH INVEST: $11k → 11%CRISIS NURSERY WRIGHT COUNTY: $15k → 5%CRISIS NURSERY WRIGHT COUNTY: $15k → 5%CRISIS NURSERY WRIGHT COUNTY: $15k → 5%MONTICELLO HELP CENTER: $13k → 5%MONTICELLO HELP CENTER: $8k → 5%WRIGHT CO COMM ACTION WCCA: $15k → 5%WRIGHT CO COMM ACTION WCCA: $7k → 5%WRIGHT CO COMM ACTION WCCA: $7k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$527k · 11 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$527k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+202%

Still filing today

64%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesHealthReligionFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MC
    MONTICELLO CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $53k · revenue +135%
  • YI
    YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $52k · revenue +36%
  • WC
    WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $29k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • FY
    FAMILY YOUTH COMMUNITY CONNECTIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +56%
  • CH
    CENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEMgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +202%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Trinity Health & Affiliates

Trinity health is committed to preserving and improving the quality of health of the people we serve. our mission is to excel at meeting the needs of the whole person through the provision of quality health care and health related services.

Health
2
Covenant Medical Center Inc

We, covenant medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. covenant medical center is a member of trinity health.

Health
3
Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.

Health
4
Mercy Medical Center - Centerville

We, mercy medical center - centerville and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communitites. mercy medical center - centerville is a member of trinity…

Health
5
Mercy Hospital of Franciscan Sisters Inc

We, mercy hospital of franciscan sisters and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy hospital of franciscan sisters is a member of…

Health
6
Centracare Health System - Melrose

We're here for your whole life to listen, then serve, to guide and heal because health means everything.

Health
7
St Francis Regional Medical Center

St. francis regional medical center (st. francis) has a rich tradition of providing quality health care for the people living in scott, carver and western dakota counties of minnesota. founded by a small group of franciscan sisters in…

Health
8
Hospice of North Iowa

We, mercy health services - iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. hospice of north iowa is a member of mercy health services - iowa…

Human Services
9
Horizon Home Care & Hospice Inc

Horizon home care & hospice, inc. is a full-service provider offering a wide range of specialty services to meet the needs of patients in southeastern wisconsin. as an extension of a network of acute-care hospitals and other health care…

Health
10
Genesis Health System

We, genesis health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Health
11
Riverbend Medical Group Inc

We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. riverbend medical group is a member of trinity health of new…

Health
12
Mercy Medical Center - Newton

We, mercy medical center - newton and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy medical center - newton is a member of trinity health.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rivers of Hope; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUFFALO ISD #877: $106,075 · OtherBUFFALO ISD #877WRIGHT COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES: $73,607 · OtherWRIGHT COUNTY HUMAN SERVICESISD 882 MONTICELLO PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $54,500 · OtherISD 882 MONTICELLO PUBLIC SCHOOLSST MICHAEL ALBERTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL: $38,375 · OtherST MICHAEL ALBERTVILLE HIGH SCHOOLMONTICELLO CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $52,500 · Human ServicesMONTICELLO CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES…YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION: $52,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATIONNEXUS-KINDRED FAMILY HEALING: $45,000 · Human ServicesNEXUS-KINDRED FAMILY HEALINGWRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $29,233 · Human ServicesWRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INCALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $22,370 · HealthCENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM: $6,500 · HealthRIVERS OF HOPE: $28,000 · ReligionHANOVER AREA FOOD SHELF INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionFAMILY YOUTH COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $18,000 · Youth Development
Other$272,557Human Services$178,733Health$28,870Religion$28,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Youth Development$18,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONTICELLO CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $52,500 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetYOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION: $52,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNEXUS-KINDRED FAMILY HEALING: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $29,233 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRIVERS OF HOPE: $28,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHANOVER AREA FOOD SHELF INC: $25,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $22,370 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY YOUTH COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $18,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Wright-Hennepin Elect…The Graco FoundationOtto Bremer TrustXcel Energy FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Wright-Hennepin Electric TrustMN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wright-Hennepin Electric Trust · The Graco Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wright County Area United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wright County Area United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    3report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Wright County Area United Way?

    Find your warmest path to Wright County Area United Way through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $113k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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