Minnesota · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES
UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $738,230 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA POWER FOUNDATION ($323,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $329k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $738k
- Net assets
- $210k
What United Way of 1000 Lakes does
Mission
United way's mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of itasca-area communities. Our vision is an equitable itasca area where all people have the opportunities and resources needed to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
United Way of 1000 Lakes strives to create an equitable itasca area where everyone has the opportunities and resources to thrive. We work closely with communities to identify patterns, uncover the greatest need and change systems so more people have economic stability. We unite individuals, companies and organizations to invest their time, financial resources and talents as part of our movement to bring economic well-being to all families throughout the region. In 2025, united way focused on creating impact through key strategies: coordinating efforts through a new safety net and upward mobility framework that centers a two-generation approach fostering partnerships across sectors to bring innovation, quality, and measuring and reporting progress convening collective action around goals and community issue areas by leading and supporting coalitions building capacity of organizations and funding partners strengthening volunteerism across our community advancing outreach, education, advocacy, and public policy around goals prioritizing diversity, equity, access, and inclusion among the accomplishments produced by this strategy in 2025 include: invested over 144 thousand across…
$243,700 spentof which $144,500 as grants76% of program spending5-2-1-0 playstations - the 5-2-1-0 playstation initiative is a trunk containing sports gear that supports families raising healthy children through more physical activity. Playstations are located in six local parks and neighborhoods to encourage play among children of all ages, regardless of their family's financial ability to purchase equipment. Volunteer portal - united way's cloud-based volunteer portal connects individuals and groups in the itasca county area to meaningful service opportunities at area nonprofits. Launched in july 2020, the platform is part of united way's capacity-building efforts to strengthen volunteerism. In 2025, united way facilitated 619 volunteer connections, generating 1439 service hours across 52 local organizations-matching community members with causes that need their time and talents. Day of action - the region's largest volunteer event, day of action mobilizes volunteers to complete projects that enhance community spaces and build community resilience. Since 2013, it has been central to itasca county's volunteer-led initiatives, engaging 1,298 volunteers who have donated over 7,553 hours of service-an estimated value of 223,743. Flavors of our…
$75,113 spent24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $318,813.
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 2024 to 2025, from $436k to $327k (−25%).
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.
96% of UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES’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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $151k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES’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
UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 47% · 2022 45% · 2023 63% — 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
100% of UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
100% of UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES 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 UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES: 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 UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES?
- UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $738,230 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA POWER FOUNDATION ($323,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $738,230 in grants to UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES?
- MINNESOTA POWER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $323,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES 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 10 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