· Public charity
Avera Health
Avera Health is a health ministry rooted in the Gospel.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 109 grants below total $6,160,190 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $24,860,573 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,700,383 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k70 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sioux Falls Catholic School Corporation | $850,000 |
| Southeast Technical College | $525,018 |
| Northern State University | $500,000 |
| South Dakota State University | $395,005 |
| Mount Marty University | $229,000 |
| University of Sioux Falls | $200,000 |
| South Dakota Community Foundation | $189,541 |
| Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare | $189,100 |
| Feeding South Dakota | $163,250 |
| University of South Dakota | $163,214 |
| Sioux Falls School District | $124,000 |
| Southwest Minnesota State University | $113,000 |
| Sioux Empire United Way | $113,000 |
| Mitchell School District 17-2 | $102,500 |
| Lewis & Clark Behavioral Health Services Inc | $100,876 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
150 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AMAvera McKennan2× · 2018–2021 · $4.3M · revenue +75%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA RESEARCH PARK INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +173% · 49% of their budget
- MMMOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +63%
Funded once
- ECEUREKA COMMUNITY BENEVOLENT HOSPITAL ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $834k · revenue +73%
- AQAvera Queen of Peacegraduatedone grant, 2018 · $529k · revenue +42%
- FVFLOYD VALLEY HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $255k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.
Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.
Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.
To create and strengthen partnerships that cultivate a robust health workforce for rural and underserved communities in south dakota.
Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…
To serve the rural electric cooperatives in south dakota, to promote the effective development of rural electrification in south dakota on a cooperative, non-profit basis.
The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.
We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.
Quality care with a personal touch, close to home.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
It is the mission of the south dakota dental association to promote the art and science of dentistry and the oral health of the public; educate the public on the benefits of quality preventative and restorative dentistry as provided by the…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of South Dakota & Montana and the most unlike its peers is Yankton Area Ice Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
182 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 182 of the 236 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Avera McKennan ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds Northern State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA RESEARCH PARK INC ↗
- Who funds Presentation College ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds EUREKA COMMUNITY BENEVOLENT HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PAVILION MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Avera Queen of Peace ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YANKTON THRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds EMBE ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL AREA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTANS DECIDE HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Avera Holy Family ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · Sioux Empire United Way Inc · Larson Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Levo Cares Foundation · The Robert and Rita Elmen Foundation · Oahe Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Avera Health funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.