Minnesota · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES
UNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,519,988 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($496,686). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $384k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $325k
What United Way of Goodhuewabasha & Pierce Counties does
Mission
To improve peoples lives by connecting the caring power of our communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community investment: partnering with non-profit agencies, schools, businesses and local units of government, united way of gwp awards grants for specific programs that produce outcomes within the areas of: education, financial mobility, health & safety. Annually, the united way of gwp board of directors determines the overall funding level for community impact grants based on the income from our annual campaign.
$253,308 spentof which $150,000 as grants$12,947 earned by the program82% of program spendingInternal programs: united way of gwp focuses education, financial mobility, health & safety. The united way packing for the weekend program strives to ensure that children from food insecure homes to ensure they have access to nutritious food when school meals are not avaialble. Sponsorship of the dolly parton imagination library program which puts quality, age appropriate books into the hands of children (birth - age 5) each month at no cost to their families; other initiatives examples: annual back to-school supply drives, 1000 books before kindergarten celebrates families reading aloud through partnerships with local libraries.
$54,974 spent18% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $308,282.
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 2021 to 2022, from $480k to $562k (+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.
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
Nicolle Mechelke
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $32k → $256k.
10 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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 GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 43% · 2019 62% · 2020 29% · 2021 45% · 2022 40% · 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
50% of UNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
55% of UNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES'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 $679k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $841k 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.
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES: 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 GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES?
- UNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,519,988 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($496,686). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,519,988 in grants to UNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $496,686 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES 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 19 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