How much does Black Hills Area Community Foundation give?

Black Hills Area Community Foundation reported 120 itemized grants totaling $5,729,537, out of $6,294,740 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 99 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Black Hills Area Community Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (35%), Human Services (24%), Education (11%).

Who are Black Hills Area Community Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oneheart ($7.2M), Commonbond Communities ($1.9M), Boys and Girls Clubs of the Black Hills ($1.3M).

Does Black Hills Area Community Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Black Hills Area Community Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, United Way of the Black Hills, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.

Where is Black Hills Area Community Foundation based?

Black Hills Area Community Foundation is based in SD.

Black Hills Area Community Foundation

Black Hills Area Community Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Community foundation

Black Hills Area Community Foundation

Lead solutions, give with purpose.

$6.3M

Granted FY2025still arriving

120

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.2M

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 2024.

Housing & Shelter$8.6MHuman Services$5.8MEducation$2.7MYouth Development$1.6MArts & Culture$1.2MAnimals$813kHealth$661kRecreation & Sports$628kOther$0

02FY2025 · 120 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 120 grants below total $5,729,537, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,294,740 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $565,203 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 · FY2025

Under $10k26 grants · $187k
$10k–50k72 grants · $1.4M
$50k–250k18 grants · $1.7M
$250k+4 grants · $2.4M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$95M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BHACF MATCH TO AGENCY	$1,182,199
ONEHEART	$597,222
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BLACK HILLS	$325,000
FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA	$303,356
LPL FINANCIALBHSU-CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES DEPARTMENTAL NEEDS FU	$220,000
CITY OF BELLE FOURCHE	$145,589
ST OLAF COLLEGE	$137,119
SD SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY-CARA	$116,800
YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC	$113,542
REMEMBERING THE CHILDREN MEMORIAL INC	$109,354
CENTRAL NEBRASKA COWBOY CHURCH	$108,000
FRIENDS OF SOUTH DAKOTA PUBLIC BROADCASTING	$104,050
WORLD VISION	$100,000
FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTER INC	$78,450
BLACK HILLS SOCCER FEDERATION INC DBA BH RAPIDS SOCCER CLUB	$75,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.3M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$26M · 117 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

117 repeat relationships: 73 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117

Total granted

$26M

$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+7%

Still filing today

74%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $988k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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

COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES
2× · 2022–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +96%
BA
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Black Hills
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +44% · 36% of their budget
RA
RURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES
3× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +30%

Funded once

CC
CALVARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
one grant, 2021 · $200k
RC
RAPID CITY CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
one grant, 2024 · $126k
PC
Pennington County Treasurer
one grant, 2020 · $70k

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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

North Dakota Natural Resources Trust

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Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health

Sd Association of Healthcare Organizations

Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.

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South Dakota Rural Electric Association

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.

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Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

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…

Human Services

Watertown Development Company

Economic development in the watertown, south dakota area.

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South Dakota Native Homeownership Coalition Inc

To increase homeownership opportunities for south dakota's native people to build strong and healthy communities.

Community Improvement

South Dakota Voices for Peace

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.

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Northeast South Dakota Area Health Education Center

To create and strengthen partnerships that cultivate a robust health workforce for rural and underserved communities in south dakota.

Education

Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc

We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.

Health

North Dakota News Cooperative

Arts & Culture

Adams Museum & House Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies; 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.

04the grantee network

168 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. 168 of the 236 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

165/168

Grantees still filing

107/168

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$14,958,162Housing & Shelter$7,266,332Human Services$2,238,079Education$1,565,573Philanthropy$1,430,949Community Improvement$1,224,588Arts & Culture$1,157,186

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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.

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.

South Dakota Community FoundationSD114.1× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Black Hills Area Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Black Hills Area Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home