Minnesota · Nonprofit
SHERBURNE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY
SHERBURNE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $718,122 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($280,372). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $208k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $718k
- Net assets
- $131k
What Sherburne County Area United Way does
Mission
Sherburne County Area United Way strives to drive lasting change in the sherburne county area by uniting changemakers to advocate for the common good of the community and to develop innovative solutions to local complex challenges that cannot be solved alone.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community support - a direct impact program we have is community connect (previously project homeless connect), where we bring together over 40 vendors to offer resources and education to people in need. We also offer free lunch, haircuts, and essential items such as hygiene products and home winterizing. Over 200 community members attended the event, representing over 400 people within the families. The short term goal of the event is to offer the resources to the event attendees. The long term goal is to expand the reach of resources and information beyond the walls of the event by the attendees sharing their information, as well as getting the community to know what organizations exist in order to help support or be supported by. Art bright since oct. 2021, we have provided sessions to 115 attendees of the program. The short-term objective of the program is to provide social interaction for the aging population and respite for memory loss caregivers. The long-term objective of the program is to provide support and education to the community about memory loss and the growing of the aging population that needs support. Communities of practice- this is a new program with different…
$59,037 spent54% of program spendingAffiliate of dolly partons imagination library the program provides books for children under the age of 5. The books are mailed directly from the dollywood foundation once a month to the registered children. It is our job to promote the program and enroll the children into the book database to provide accurate information to the foundation. It is also our duty to fundraise for the program in order to pay an estimated $2.30 per book. We currently have 1500 children enrolled living within our service area (including the zip codes: 55309, 55330, 55371, 55377, 55398). Short term goal is to get books into the hands of the children in our community. The long term goal is to increase kindergarten readiness.
$39,694 spent36% of program spendingDonor designations and support - the organization runs fundraising to support the community by giving out grants to member agencies in the community. Scauw was able to support the public by raising additional funds to provide grants to member agencies in the community.
$10,555 spentof which $10,400 as grants10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $109,286.
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 $317k to $176k (−45%).
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 10% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SHERBURNE 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. 4 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
Kat Sarff
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $5k → $146k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 SHERBURNE 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
SHERBURNE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 SHERBURNE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 65% · 2020 46% · 2021 52% · 2022 38% · 2023 40% — 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
63% of SHERBURNE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
64% of SHERBURNE 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 $256k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $462k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SHERBURNE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY's revenue fell 25% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SHERBURNE 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
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 SHERBURNE 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 SHERBURNE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY?
- SHERBURNE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $718,122 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($280,372). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SHERBURNE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $718,122 in grants to SHERBURNE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHERBURNE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $280,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHERBURNE 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 13 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