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Allied Arts Fund Drive Inc

Operating and promotional support for community arts organizations

$128k
Granted FY2019
8
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Arts & Culture$288k
02FY2019 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $87,125, the rows itemized in this filing. The $127,684 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,559 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $67k
$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$122k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAPID CITY MUNICIPAL BAND$17,400
BLACK HILLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$15,200
BLACK HILLS POW WOW$13,525
RAPID CITY RANGER BAND$11,000
DAKOTA CHORAL UNION$10,000
BH COMMUNITY THEATER$8,000
MINNILUSA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$6,000
RAPID CITY CONCERT ASSOCIATION$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTHERN HILLS MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL: $15k → 9%RAPID CITY MUNICIPAL BAND: $17k → 14%RAPID CITY MUNICIPAL BAND: $17k → 14%RAPID CITY MUNICIPAL BAND: $17k → 14%RAPID CITY RANGER BAND: $12k → 14%RAPID CITY RANGER BAND: $12k → 14%RAPID CITY RANGER BAND: $11k → 14%BH CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $7k → 14%BH CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $7k → 14%MINNILUSA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $6k → 14%MINNILUSA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$273k · 9 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$273k
$15k

Still filing today

56%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BH
    BLACK HILLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $50k · revenue +20%
  • BH
    Black Hills Powwow Association
    3× · 2017–2019 · $39k · revenue +191%
  • BH
    BLACK HILLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $27k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • SH
    SOUTHERN HILLS MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAPID CITY MUNICIPAL BAND: $52,200 · OtherRAPID CITY MUNICIPAL BANDRAPID CITY RANGER BAND: $35,250 · OtherRAPID CITY RANGER BANDDAKOTA CHORAL UNION: $32,950 · OtherDAKOTA CHORAL UNIONSOUTHERN HILLS MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL: $15,000 · OtherSOUTHERN HILLS MUSIC & ART FESTIVALBLACK HILLS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $13,600 · OtherBLACK HILLS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETYMINNILUSA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $12,000 · OtherMINNILUSA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONBLACK HILLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY: $49,700 · Arts & CultureBLACK HILLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETYBlack Hills Powwow Association: $38,525 · Arts & CultureBlack Hills Powwow AssociationBLACK HILLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $27,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK HILLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INCRAPID CITY CONCERT ASSOCIATION: $11,660 · Arts & CultureRAPID CITY CONCERT ASSOCIATION
Other$161,000Arts & Culture$126,885

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLACK HILLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY: $49,700 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetBlack Hills Powwow Association: $38,525 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetBLACK HILLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $27,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetMINNILUSA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $12,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetRAPID CITY CONCERT ASSOCIATION: $11,660 over 2y, 8.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BLACK HILLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Black Hills Powwow Association ↗
  • Who funds BLACK HILLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNILUSA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds RAPID CITY CONCERT ASSOCIATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Allied Arts Fund Drive Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allied Arts Fund Drive Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Allied Arts Fund Drive Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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