Grants made by Ucare Foundation
Ucare Foundation (EIN 46-4795214) reported 73 grants totaling $3.7M in FY2024 on Schedule I of its IRS Form 990. See the full financial profile for revenue, ratings and leadership.
Grant recipients (FY2024) · $3.7M total
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Tree Dental | Support for the remodel and establishment of apple trees new brighton community outreach center. | $450,000 |
| Apple Tree Dental | Support the remodel and establishment of apple trees new brighton community outreach center. | $150,000 |
| Vine Faith In Action | Essential infrastructure modifications for adult community center in mankato, which serves over 2,200 members including older adults and younger individuals with disabilities. | $100,000 |
| Healthfinders Collaborative Inc | Dental program extends recent projects to build dental-specific efficiency and capacity and drive better outcomes for patients. | $100,000 |
| Minnesota State Colleges and Universities | Updates and expansions to dental clinic addressing a critical shortage of dental professionals and increase access to affordable dental services in the region. | $100,000 |
| Mississippi Headwaters Area Dental Health Center Incorporated | Support during mentorship, monitoring and paced ramp up for onboarding of a newly licensed and committed dentist to bridge the workforce gap in rural northwestern minnesota. | $100,000 |
| Wilderness Inquiry Inc | Initiative to increase accessibility at organization sites with adaptive equipment, modifications and scholarships for outdoor programs for participants with disabilities. | $100,000 |
| Native American Community Clinic | Traditional healing and maternal and child health initiatives supporting essential elements like resource navigation, education, and traditional healing services. | $100,000 |
| Childrens Dental Services Inc | Dental care access expansion project increases accessibility for people living with disabling and neurodivergent conditions. | $100,000 |
| Steps of Strategy | Supourt program (supporting people to overcome, unite, reach, and thrive) to help clients with disabilities access adaptive equipment and onsite mental and chemical health services. | $92,000 |
| The Food Group Minnesota Inc | Expanded operation for twin cities mobile market provides shopping and access to communities lacking adequate fresh, healthful foods. | $90,000 |
| The Food Group Minnesota Inc | Twin cities mobile market provides shopping and access to communities lacking adequate fresh, healthful foods. | $90,000 |
| St Marys Health Clinics | Mobile oral health care services for spanish-speaking immigrants joins a mobile dental clinic reaching underserved latino communities in greater minnesota. | $80,000 |
| Open Door Health Center | School-based health center model to expand access to dental care for 500 rural students in south central minnesota. | $75,000 |
| Iowa Medical Society Foundation | Establish a state-based collaborative learning community among iowa's maternal health provider community to address morbidity and mortality factors affecting iowa moms and babies. | $75,000 |
| Community Dental Care | Program to improve community oral health (picoh) improves access to culturally sensitive dental services for low-income, diverse and underserved populations through in-clinic services, patient care coordination and community outreach. | $70,000 |
| Easter Seals Society of Iowa | Underwrite the position of assistant director for one year who will research and prepare a feasibility study to offer an on-site b3 option for children needing support/assistance. | $61,626 |
| My Neighbor To Love Coalition | Accessibility for all in creekside community initiative to ensure necessary ada compliant accessibility modifications. | $60,000 |
| Iowa Womens Foundation | Building community solutions program that includes services to raise awareness for policies/investments in all barriers to women's economic stability. | $50,000 |
| Lets Smile | Advocating oral health for overall health program addresses the critical need for accessible dental care among low-income children and teens in southeast and southwest minnesota. | $50,000 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines | Renovation of five units at the supportive housing campus for individuals transitioning from homelessness. | $50,000 |
| Channel One Inc | Strengthen the southeast minnesota kitchen coalition program which distributes and delivers over 55,000 prepared meals annually throughout the region in partnership with community restaurants and nonprofits organizations. | $50,000 |
| United Community Health Center Inc | Subcontract with health coalition to access community health worker staff for care coordination, navigation, patient education, training and engagement to uhch patients with focus on cancer screenings. | $50,000 |
| Anoka County | Initiative to install handicapped accessible doors and bathroom modifications at several sites, increasing accessibility for the nearly 10% of county residents with a disability. | $50,000 |
| Des Moines Area Religious Council | Purchase and distribution of healthy food items to those experiencing food insecurity to the greater des moines community. | $50,000 |
| Ely Community Health Center | Support for a flexibly staffed dental program to increase access to oral healthcare for low-income and uninsured individuals in the ely rural area. | $50,000 |
| Iowa Prescription Drug Corporation | Support a certified pharmacy technician to staff the drug donation repository and charitable pharmacy in order to prepare donated medicine for statewide distribution. | $50,000 |
| Greater Sioux Community Health Center Inc | Spanish-language health information and training sessions addressing teen pregnancy and mental health services. | $50,000 |
| Isanti County | Expand dental services to braham area, to help fill regional need for seniors and rural residents. | $50,000 |
| Sabathani Community Center | Navigation to stability program provides monthly food deliveries to individuals with housing difficulties and offers wellness workshops about healthy eating, nutrition, exercise, stress management and living with chronic conditions. | $45,000 |
| North Point Health & Wellness Center Inc | Program to expand accessibility to northpoints community food shelf by extending operating hours for programs and services. | $45,000 |
| Union Gospel Mission Association of St Paul | Daily healthy food access and education program to support the homeless population with daily meals and provide education and coaching about nutrition. | $40,000 |
| Damiano of Duluth Inc | Community kitchen to serve meals 15 times each week to residents of the service area experiencing homelessness or very low incomes. | $40,000 |
| Pillsbury United Communities | Food systems program to provide nutrition and food support through two food shelves, community cafs and after school programs to cedar-riverside, oak park and waite house residents. | $40,000 |
| White Bear Area Food Shelf | Increase the capacity of its community market, curbside pick-up and resource hub programs with expanded multilingual outreach for communities experiencing hardships. | $40,000 |
| Churches United In Ministry | Initiative helps clients, shelter guests, and supportive housing residents access dental care and provides a years supply of oral hygiene products. | $35,000 |
| Community Emergency Assistance Program Inc | Prioritizing access and inclusion through nutrition services programs and wraparound resource navigation and support. | $35,000 |
| North Country Food Bank Inc | Mobile pantry program for communities with high poverty rates and racial disparities across 21 counties and three native nations in northwest and west central minnesota. | $35,000 |
| Youthlink | To address food security among the growing number of youth and youth-led families by enhancing pantry offerings, providing nutrition education and adding program components. | $35,000 |
| Hammer Residences Inc | Support for installation of a ceiling mobility tracking system that will allow people with disabilities to access their entire homes and socialize with others. | $34,826 |
| Home and Community Options Inc | Accessibility and safety with portable lift systems helps people with intellectual/developmental disabilities safely and independently navigate their living environments. | $33,950 |
| Ames Community School District | Partnership with classroom clinic to help expand mental health access for schools across iowa. | $32,500 |
| Sharing Bread Soup Kitchen Inc | Provide essential human needs of food, shelter and fellowship seven days a week to local day/overnight shelter guests. | $30,000 |
| Iowa Health Care Association Foundation | 19 scholarship for home- and community-based services waiver or home health professionals pursing continuing education. | $30,000 |
| Peace House Community | Purchase groceries and supplies for meals for the residents of the ventura village neighborhood of south minneapolis. | $30,000 |
| Sawtooth Mountain Clinic Inc | Dental assistant training of a band member who will work in oral health outreach/education and provide dental screenings for 750 children in cook county and the grand portage reservation. | $30,000 |
| Feeding Our Communities Partners | Program for bulk food purchases from three vendor partners that are vetted by a program and nutrition committee composed of nutrition experts and specialists. | $30,000 |
| Fraser | Sensory consultation program pilot project provides a sensory e-training module to 200 apple tree dental clinic staff members across nine locations and a fraser occupational therapist supporting patients with sensory needs. | $29,000 |
| Boys Club of Duluth | An inclusive array of programming and activities that are part of the healthy lifestyles pillar program combating food insecurity. | $25,000 |
| Iowa Healthiest State Initiative | Providing fresh fruit and vegetable incentives for low-income iowans, administration and evaluation. | $25,000 |
| Iowa Behavioral Health Association | Educational programs, trainings and workshops on artificial intelligence, strategic planning and other trainings for staff of 31+ member agencies of the organization. | $25,000 |
| National Alliance On Mental Illness-iowa Inc | Addressing mental health disparities in rural communities by reaching 3,000 participants across the state and increasing knowledge about warning signs of mental illness. | $25,000 |
| Neighborhood House | Provides access to fresh, healthy and culturally specific foods at several locations across st. paul. | $25,000 |
| Hospice of Central Iowa Foundation | Mental health programming for pregnant/postpartum individuals and children living in polk, dallas, warren, and madison counties in iowa, who are eligible for medicaid and/or wic services, can be served by everysteps mh programming. | $25,000 |
| Avenues For Youth | Plan, prepare and provide meals and snacks for youth, and working toward ending the cycle of youth homelessness. | $25,000 |
| Community Action Duluth | Increase the number of stops and routes for community mobile market on wheels and the number of food access-focused farmers markets from once a month to every other week through winter. | $25,000 |
| Clare Housing | Accessibility modifications to mobile passenger van to help community care home residents travel to appointments and social opportunities. | $25,000 |
| Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church | Support to ensure healthy, culturally appropriate food offerings and meet increased demand. | $25,000 |
| Veap Inc | Reduces barriers to food access through pantry and home delivery services. | $25,000 |
| Open Arms of Minnesota Inc | Pilot to provide medically tailored meals, nutrition education and community resource connection to expectant mothers with high-risk pregnancies with a special focus on counteracting disparities. | $22,500 |
| Eastside Meals On Wheels Inc | Covers supplier increases per meal to compensate for cuts in federal funding while allowing waivered clients to maintain the same service rates. | $20,550 |
| Pierz Area Food Shelf Inc | Rural mobile food pantry deliveries to underserved populations, partnerships with local farmers and nutrition workshops with the university of minnesota extension snap-ed. | $20,000 |
| Dallas Center - Grimes Community School District | Partnership with classroom clinic to help expand mental health access for schools across iowa. | $16,250 |
| Westwood Community School District | Partnership with classroom clinic to help expand mental health access for schools across iowa. | $16,250 |
| Glidden-ralston Csd | Partnership with classroom clinic to help expand mental health access for schools across iowa. | $16,250 |
| Watonwan County | Providing support for dental clinic and dental varnish kits implemented in they county by children's dental services. | $15,000 |
| Le Sueur County | Healthy smiles program providing education and preventive dental services for those on medical assistance or without insurance in the county. | $15,000 |
| Mobile Loaves Twin Cities | Initiative to purchase food and cover increased food costs for twin cities residents in need. | $15,000 |
| Olmsted County | Public health services purchases of convertible and booster 2-in-1 car seats for distribution to uninsured/underinsured children. | $15,000 |
| Nicollet County | Public health partnership with local registered dental hygienist to offer dental varnishes to children from low-income families at no cost at county clinic and local head start program. | $15,000 |
| Kanabec County | Fund a contract with children's dental services to provide dental services to low-income and medical assistance individuals in county. | $13,392 |
| Marshall County Public Health | Initiative to bring public health information to county residents and provide a back to school health clinic plus supplies to help children be ready for the school year. | $10,000 |
| Rice County | Mental health care consultation services with doctor from university of minnesota and staff case managers. | $9,000 |
Grant data comes from Schedule I of Ucare Foundation's e-filed Form 990, via CharityIndex. Recipients link to their own profiles where the EIN matches our directory.