North Dakota · Nonprofit
MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY
MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY (North Dakota) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,531,895 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($750,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Missouri Slope Areawide United Way does
Mission
We unite people and resources to build a better community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community investments to united way partner agencies education, mentoring, a stable home life, and jobs - msa united way fights poverty through partnerships and investments to ensure that every child enters school ready to succeed, are reading at grade level, and graduate from high school on time. Msa united way stabilizes homes of at-risk students by providing supportive services such as case management, housing, and mentors to increase school attendance and improve behaviors. Msa united way invests in programs that improve academic outcomes and assist those living in poverty with finding and retaining employment. Msa united way delivered 40,357 books to 3,680 local preschoolers. Msa united way, together with partners, provided approximately 3.5 million meals to those in need and approximately 25,000 nights of shelter to the homeless. Accomplishments of note among a multitude of services provided, approximately 2,000 children spent quality time with a mentor, approximately 500 children with trauma increased coping skills, and at-risk youth received approximately 2,000 hours of direct supportive counseling. Thousands of volunteers were mobilized to hold food, diapers, wipes,…
$855,011 spentof which $415,731 as grants58% of program spendingEnding hunger in our community one way that msa united way fights hunger is by administering the united way backpack program, providing approximately 1,700 backpacks every other weekend full of food to students in bismarck-mandan and outlying rural communities. In 2025, 30,073 meals were provided to at-risk youth to end weekend hunger.
$107,262 spent7% of program spendingHomeless shelter in october of 2017, a major local emergency homeless shelter shut down, leaving many without needed food, shelter, and resources. United way stepped in after being asked to provide emergency shelter throughout the frigid winter months. United way purchased property with a partner in 2019 to build a permanent shelter for the community, serving men, women, and families. Msa united way re-opened our doors during the daytime hours in december 2022 and has been the only 24/7 emergency shelter in the region, saving lives, especially on days with windchill as cold as -50. The new facility, called the center for opportunity, began serving residents on june 1, 2023. The goal of the center is to bring a multitude of services onsite, such as behavioral health case management, childcare, career readiness training, housing assistance, and financial literacy counseling. The new facility provides safe space for families with children, as well as victims of domestic violence. Additionally, msa united way provided hotel rooms and care to covid-positive homeless clients and continued to facilitate access to covid-19 testing prior to admission into the shelter to keep all residents…
$504,643 spent34% of program spendingExpenses paid for community service projects. Included in community services is the dolly parton imagination library administered by united way and other smaller community service projects. The dolly parton imagination library is a program administered at no cost by msa united way where free books are mailed monthly to the homes of local children ages 0-5 each month. In 2024, 40,357 books were delivered to thousands of local preschoolers across a 10-county region.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,466,916.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $6.3M to $7.4M (+17%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2022 6% · 2023 7% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jena Gullo
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $134k → $464k.
13 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $320k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Cass-Clay). These are real filings, and they are not money MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY raised.
From the IRS filings of MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
43% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 26% · 2019 68% · 2020 35% · 2021 44% · 2022 46% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
53% of MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Building a Better Solution LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY?
- MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY (North Dakota) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,531,895 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($750,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,531,895 in grants to MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing