Minnesota · Nonprofit
RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY
RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY (Minnesota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,075 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($83,309). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $476k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $449k
- Net assets
- $260k
What Rice County Area United Way does
Mission
Rice County Area United Way works to mobilize the resources and caring power of individuals, organizations, and networks to strengthen the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community investment: partnering with nonprofit agencies, schools and local units of government, Rice County Area United Way awards grants for programs that produce outcomes in the areas of education, health and financial stability/basic needs. Our partner agencies help individuals and families with safe housing, food security, health care as well as other basic needs. Our partners also help ensure that all children can fulfill their potential in school and life. Partner agencies deliver evidence-based programs with measurable outcomes.
$279,736 spentof which $208,000 as grants83% of program spendingImagination library: Rice County Area United Way is the county-wide sponsor for dolly parton's imagination library, providing free, age- appropriate books each month to over 1,800 local children aged birth to five. Imagination library paves the way for early school success for children in our community by ensuring that all families have free access to age-appropriate books in the home.
$54,112 spentof which $54,112 as grants16% of program spending1,566 donor designations: contributions to Rice County Area United Way that donors direct to specific agencies. There were approximately 7 donor designations to 7 agencies in fy 2023.
$1,700 spentof which $1,700 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $335,548.
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 2019 to 2020, from $244k to $361k (+48%).
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 8% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $38k → $78k.
10 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of RICE COUNTY AREA 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
RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
90% 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 RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 81% · 2019 70% · 2020 24% · 2021 24% · 2022 19% · 2023 42% — 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
54% of RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
78% of RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $97k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $352k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY is better cushioned than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RICE COUNTY AREA 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 Minnesota
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
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY?
- RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY (Minnesota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,075 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($83,309). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $449,075 in grants to RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $83,309 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 20 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing