Minnesota · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,495,556 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($3,058,343). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What United Way of Central Minnesota does
Mission
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of central minnesota. Because change doesn't happen alone.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization has chosen to focus and accelerate community wide solutions in three main community impact areas: health, education, and financial stability. Within each of these impact areas, there are primary goals. Health addresses mental health and addiction. Education addresses kindergarten readiness, student success, and career and college readiness. Financial stability addresses housing and child care. United Way of Central Minnesota also provides the community safety net, ensuring access to food and emergency shelter with each year's first dollars raised. Safety net programs are evaluated and selected by a team of experienced volunteers familiar with the agencies and community needs. Program investments in the three impact areas are reviewed by teams of community volunteers after a letter of intent and full request for proposal are accepted by the organization. The investment team of community volunteers reviews the applications and makes funding recommendations to the board of directors.
$3,755,857 spentof which $1,012,865 as grants$75,960 earned by the program94% of program spendingUnited way's imagination library book program provides free, age-appropriate books each month to local children from birth to age five. The goal is to help all children be prepared for success in school and life. During the year, uwcm delivered approximately 62,000 books.
$166,139 spent4% of program spendingUnited way also provides donors with the opportunity to designate their contributions to other eligible charitable organizations. A processing fee is collected based on united way worldwide guidelines. Donor designations in the current year totaled $79,070.
$79,070 spentof which $79,070 as grants2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,001,066.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.2M to $4.2M (−18%).
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: 2018 3% · 2019 0% · 2020 15% · 2021 27% · 2022 23% · 2023 31% · 2024 35% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Stephen Jones
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $262k → $745k.
12 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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: $561k from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Park Nicollet Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. 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 CENTRAL MINNESOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 79% · 2019 67% · 2020 32% · 2021 38% · 2022 31% · 2023 51% — 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
70% of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
65% of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA'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 $2.2M that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 CENTRAL MINNESOTA: 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 CENTRAL MINNESOTA?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,495,556 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($3,058,343). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $6,495,556 in grants to UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA?
- COMMUNITYGIVING is the largest funder on record, with $3,058,343 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA 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 41 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