South Dakota · Public charity
Avera McKennan
Avera is a health ministry rooted in the Gospel. Our mission is to make a positive impact in the lives and health of persons and communities by providing quality services and guided by Christian values.
- $780k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $15k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Avera McKennan funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $800k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $1.5M | 67% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $156k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $137k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $225k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $15k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sioux Empire Triage Center | $2,000,000 | 2 | 47% |
| Darwin Foundation | $312,000 | 3 | n/a |
| South Dakota Symphony Orchestra | $250,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Sioux Falls School District #49-5 | $234,000 | 2 | n/a |
| South Dakota State University | $75,000 | 5 | n/a |
| East Africa Medical Assistance | $30,000 | 3 | 58% |
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sanford Group Return · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · South Dakota Community Foundation · Sioux Empire United Way Inc · Avera Health · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Avera McKennan
- How much does Avera McKennan give?
- Avera McKennan reported 1 itemized grants totaling $15,000, out of $780,094 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Avera McKennan fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (79%), Arts & Culture (8%), Education (8%).
- Who are Avera McKennan's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sioux Empire Triage Center ($2.0M), Darwin Foundation ($312k), South Dakota Symphony Orchestra ($250k).
- Does Avera McKennan fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Avera McKennan?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sanford Group Return, Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc, South Dakota Community Foundation.
- Where is Avera McKennan based?
- Avera McKennan is based in SD.
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