Minnesota · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MN
UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MN (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $834,232 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($570,001). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $672k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $834k
- Net assets
- $442k
What United Way of West Central Mn does
Mission
United way of west central minnesota works to improve people's lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities to create lasting change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
United way impacts education, health and basic needs to help our friends, family and neighbors. Education; making sure that our children come to school prepared to succeed, supporting them throughout their school career, and helping people of all ages gain job skills, creating a ripple effect of success throughout our united way communities. Health; promoting access to affordable quality physical, mental, and dental health care; promoting independent living and quality of life programs, and promoting access to programs that teach healthy behaviors and promote wellness to prevent future problems. Basic needs; supporting agencies that provide building blocks for a good life for individuals and families in west central minnesota.
$286,765 spent94% of program spendingUnited way coordinates and funds the dolly parton imagination library program. United way has over 2,500 preschool children enrolled (from birth to age 5). These children receive an age appropriate book through the mail each month. The program is designed to help children build vocabularies and discover reading. It also builds bonds between parents and adult relatives and the children as they help foster the love of reading. There is no cost to families to enroll their child and the child receives 12 books a year until their 5th birthday. This is one way united way's education initiative helps prepare children for kindergarten.
$17,431 spent6% of program spendingEmpower: women united is an initiative of the united way and unites women in our communities. The purpose is to educate women about our community's most pressing needs, engage women as philanthropic leaders and active community investors and empower women to be a part of positive change in our community. Their current focus is to address the issue of preparing area children for kindergarten. Empower began ten years ago in kandiyohi county to address the issue of only 50% of kindergarten-aged children being ready to start kindergarten. The litchfield branch of empower began eight years ago. The kandiyohi county empower group utilizes the dollars they raise in four different ways: 5% to support imagination library; 15% for getting educational materials into the hands of parents and funding preschool backpacks that have tools to help prepare preschoolers for kindergarten; 30% of the funds are used to provide early childhood grants addressing school readiness. The remaining 50% goes toward the "growmobile," which is a mobile program that provides onsite preschool in targeted regions in our communities year round. The litchfield empower group hosts events to raise money and awareness…
$2,070 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $306,266.
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 2019 to 2020, from $592k to $434k (−27%).
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.
87% of UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $62k → $138k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 WEST CENTRAL MN’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 WEST CENTRAL MN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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
87% 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 WEST CENTRAL MN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 83% · 2019 79% · 2020 64% · 2021 55% · 2022 71% · 2023 57% — 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
67% of UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
78% of UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MN'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 $182k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $652k 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 WEST CENTRAL MN runs a healthier operating margin 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 WEST CENTRAL MN
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 WEST CENTRAL MN: 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 WEST CENTRAL MN?
- UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MN (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $834,232 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($570,001). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MN have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $834,232 in grants to UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MN, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MN?
- COMMUNITYGIVING is the largest funder on record, with $570,001 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MN 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 15 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