· Private foundation
Black Hills Corporation Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of BLACK HILLS CORPORATION 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 94 grants below total $911,663 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,025,928 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $114,265 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 $10k65 grants · $191k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $551k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| National Arbor Day Foundation, | $170,000 |
| United Way Of The Black Hills, | $43,517 |
| Warm Hearts of Douglas County, PO Box 1 | $30,326 |
| Tri Lakes Cares, Po Box | $27,000 |
| Community Options Inc | $25,000 |
| Lift-Up (Life Inter Faith Team On Unemployment And Poverty), 800 Railroad Ave, PO Box 1928, Rifle, CO 81650 | $25,000 |
| Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center Inc, | $25,000 |
| Meeteetse Recreation Foundation, | $25,000 |
| Lavista Community Foundation Corp | $25,000 |
| Lincoln Parks & Recreation Fndn, | $25,000 |
| Young Mens Christian Association Of Boulder Valley, | $25,000 |
| Guttenberg Economic And Industrial Development Committe | $25,000 |
| Way Out West Community Theatre Inc | $22,500 |
| Energy Outreach Colorado, 3 | $21,969 |
| Northwest Arkansas Childrens Shelter Inc, | $20,000 |
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.
53 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 72 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, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $785k 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
- ESEnergy Share of Wyoming2× · 2022–2023 · $68k · revenue +13% · 33% of their budget
- CRCHURCH RESPONSE3× · 2021–2023 · $22k · revenue +56%
- UWUNITED WAY OF BOONE COUNTY INC3× · 2021–2023 · $7k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- CBCouncil Bluffs Schoolsone grant, 2022 · $40k
- OONEHEARTone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -20%
- ESEnergy Share of Wyoming c/o Alignone grant, 2021 · $28k
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.
United way distributes collections to civil and charitable organizations in the geographical area.
To fund various community nonprofit organizations in southwest north dakota.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
United way connects people and resources to improve the quality of life in the midlands. united way invests in a broad range of community programs that increase access to health care, improve student success, assist people in crisis to…
United Way uses its global reach and local presence to build stronger, more resilient communities where everyone can thrive. We work to improve the health, education, and economic mobility of every person in every community we serve.
Collect and disburse funds for the united way
Building a stronger community by uniting people and resources to solve problems and improve lives.
United way of umatilla and morrow counties empowers individual givers to support their communities in caring for those in need.
To build a stronger, caring community by uniting our resources and enhance the human services available in mcminn and meigs counties.
Provides funding to affiliated non-profit agencies in wythe county and the surrounding area.
Our mission is to improve peoples lives by mobilizing the caring power of the communities. we will achieve this by identifying critical human needs, supporting programs that lead to measurable community results and by providing finnacial…
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Weld County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gothenburg Early Childhood Learning Coalition. 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 225 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 WARM HEARTS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS ↗
- Who funds IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LARAMIE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Energy Share of Wyoming ↗
- Who funds ONEHEART ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE ↗
- Who funds United Way of Pueblo County Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of the Black Hills ↗
- Who funds BERTHA BARTLETT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEWARD CHANGING THE GAME INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK CANYON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MAGDALENE SERENITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Well NE ↗
- Who funds RUBY M SISSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Nebraska Community Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Black Hills Area Community Foundation · Nebraska Children & Families Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell 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.