South Dakota · Private foundation
Black Hills Corporation Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 94
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 72
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $912k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,668
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $170,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 72 to 84
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Black Hills Corporation Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $421k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 74 | $912k | 97% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $827k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 74 | $740k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 84 | $779k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warm Hearts of Douglas County Inc | $188,741 | 3 | 50% |
| United Way of the Black Hills | $155,298 | 3 | 3% |
| Iowa Community Action Association | $105,994 | 3 | 1% |
| Laramie County Community College Foundation | $84,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Energy Share of Wyoming | $68,185 | 2 | 33% |
| Oneheart | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| United Way of Northwest Arkansas Inc | $26,548 | 1 | 1% |
| Saving Grace | $25,500 | 1 | 2% |
| United Way of Pueblo County Colorado Inc | $25,467 | 3 | 1% |
| Bertha Bartlett Public Library Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 8% |
Show all 93 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 128 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Black Hills Corporation Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 84 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
Compare Black Hills Corporation Foundation with peer funders
About Black Hills Corporation Foundation
- How much does Black Hills Corporation Foundation give?
- Black Hills Corporation Foundation reported 94 itemized grants totaling $911,663, out of $1,025,928 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 84 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Black Hills Corporation Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (14%), Philanthropy (11%), Environment (6%).
- Who are Black Hills Corporation Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Warm Hearts of Douglas County Inc ($189k), United Way of the Black Hills ($155k), Iowa Community Action Association ($106k).
- Does Black Hills Corporation Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Black Hills Corporation Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Black Hills Corporation Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation, Bnsf Railway Foundation.
- Where is Black Hills Corporation Foundation based?
- Black Hills Corporation Foundation is based in SD.
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