· Community foundation
Black Hills Area Community Foundation
Educational, scientific, literary and charitable support in broad areas including development of both quality and quantity of economic growth in the rapid city and black hills area
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of BLACK HILLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 102 grants below total $3,901,071 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,349,072 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $448,001 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $166k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+1 grant · $771k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONEHEART | $771,369 |
| WORLD VISION INC | $150,000 |
| NAU FOUNDATION | $148,205 |
| RE-MEMBER | $129,860 |
| RAPID CITY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $126,300 |
| CHILDRENS HOME FOUNDATION | $109,212 |
| YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $109,158 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE BLACK HI | $106,000 |
| RAPID CITY AREA SCHOOLS | $83,967 |
| ST OLAF COLLEGE | $76,718 |
| WAMBLI SKA SOCIETY | $75,606 |
| SEQUEL INC | $75,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $68,244 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HE SAPA | $64,000 |
| SD ASSOC FOR EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHI | $63,613 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
102 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $843k 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
COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES2× · 2022–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +96%- RARURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES3× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +51%
- BABoys and Girls Clubs of the Black Hills8× · 2017–2024 · $930k · revenue +44% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCALVARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $200k
- PCPennington County Treasurerone grant, 2020 · $70k
- BHBLACK HILLS WAR MONUMENTone grant, 2022 · $59k · revenue -94% · 85% of their budget
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.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.
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…
Sd voices for peace provides five programming areas to assist vulnerable communities access services throughout the state: legal services, multilingual outreach, training and education, advocacy and civic engagement and rapid response.
Economic development in the watertown, south dakota area.
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 conservancy, in partnership with the national park service, is dedicated to enriching and preserving forever the wonders and significance of the parks of the badlands of south dakota.
To increase homeownership opportunities for south dakota's native people to build strong and healthy communities.
The adams museum & house inc's mission is to remain dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the history and material culture of the black hills of south dakota.
To create and strengthen partnerships that cultivate a robust health workforce for rural and underserved communities in south dakota.
Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Hanson-Larsen Memorial Park Foundation Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
136 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. 136 of the 194 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
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 ONEHEART ↗
- Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds RURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of the Black Hills ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS O ↗
- Who funds YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RAPID CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds National American University Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds Storybook Island ↗
- Who funds SEQUEL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORKING AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE BLACK HILLS ↗
- Who funds BLACK HILLS WORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds SDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK HILLS RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds RE-MEMBER ↗
- Who funds RAPID CITY CLUB FOR BOYS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS ↗
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 · United Way of the Black Hills · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc · Larson Foundation · Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee · Synchrony Foundation · John T Vucurevich Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Dakota Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Black Hills Area Community Foundation 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.