Minnesota · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,122,699 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC ($3,452,450). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What United Way of Southeast Minnesota does
Mission
United Way of Southeast Minnesota is an agent of community change that inspires hope, creates opportunity, and champions people in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grants: United Way of Southeast Minnesota is focused on these building blocks of a good quality of life. We fight for every individual in our community by focusing on: financial stability - moving individuals and families toward financial independence and ensuring basic needs are met. Education - preparing children and youth to succeed in school and in the community. Health - promoting physical and mental well being. Our goal is to create lasting change by addressing the underlying causes of social problems. We are mobilizing the community and building collaborations that produce results. Together, we are changing olmsted county for the better for all of us.
$1,006,229 spentof which $1,006,229 as grants39% of program spendingCommunity impact, advocacy, grant making, capacity building and result tracking: expenses incurred by the organization to assess community needs, provide outcome measurement training to various entities in the community; provide program assessment, review and selection; administer grants; provide financial and stewardship oversight of grant recipients; provide capacity building for agencies; advocate for causes; and participate in community partnerships to advance common goals in the four focused areas.
$767,848 spent30% of program spendingPartnerships and initiatives: (1) running start for school mobilizes the community to collect backpacks and school supplies through the summer months and then distributes the donated supplies to local schools for children who are eligible for free or reduced lunch. (2) 211 is a free, confidential, and multilingual human service information and referral resource available by phone, text, onlinechat, and online self-search. Information is available 24 hours a day on a variety of topics including childcare, counseling, food, health services, housing, legal assistance, transportation, volunteering, andmore. (3) get connected, united way's online tool to connect volunteers to opportunities and events, allows people to volunteer with local organizations that fit the volunteer's schedule and interests. (4) imagination library provides children living in olmsted county the opportunity to receive a free, age-appropriate book in the mail each month from birth to their fifth birthday. Each book is selected for the developmental benefits it brings. (5) the vita free tax preparation initiative connects low-to moderate-income families to opportunities to file their taxes for free. (6) a…
$520,919 spent$678,682 earned by the program20% of program spendingDonor designations: as a service to our donors, local agencies, and companies that run campaigns, we will process contributions designated by the donor to a specific agency. We will raise, collect and forward donor contributions to the donor's chosen nonprofit organization. Expenses only include designated dollars to be distributed, and do not include any expenses for fundraising or processing of the designated donations.
$290,900 spentof which $290,900 as grants11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,585,896.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.2M to $4.6M (−12%).
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: 2022 6% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Armin Budimlic
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $566k → $639k.
13 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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: $465k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rochester Area Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 86% · 2019 85% · 2020 72% · 2021 66% · 2022 61% · 2023 67% — 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 SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
90% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST 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 $504k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA's revenue fell 16% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST 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
74% 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 SOUTHEAST 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 SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,122,699 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC ($3,452,450). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $5,122,699 in grants to UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA?
- MAYO CLINIC is the largest funder on record, with $3,452,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST 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 32 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