How much does Brookings Area United Way give?

Brookings Area United Way reported 21 itemized grants totaling $448,800, out of $533,796 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Brookings Area United Way fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (31%), Human Services (29%), Health (13%).

Who are Brookings Area United Way's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Plains Inc ($1.0M), Brookings Area Transit Authority ($526k), Brookings Foundation ($340k).

Does Brookings Area United Way fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Brookings Area United Way?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, Larson Foundation, Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc.

Where is Brookings Area United Way based?

Brookings Area United Way is based in SD.

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South Dakota · Public charity

Brookings Area United Way

Donate monies to agencies in the brookings area in need of financial assitance.

$534k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 21
Itemized grants FY2025: 21
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $449k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $16,200
Largest grant, FY2025: $98,100
Organizations funded a year: 20 to 24; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $4.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Brookings Area United Way 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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	20	$449k	10%
FY2024	21	$491k	0%
FY2023	21	$507k	0%
FY2022	21	$523k	10%
FY2021	20	$562k	0%
FY2020	21	$616k	0%
FY2019	24	$660k	4%
FY2018	24	$600k	0%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$1.6MHuman Services$1.5MHealth$696kHousing & Shelter$440kFood & Nutrition$347kCrime & Legal$190kPublic Safety & Disaster$110kCommunity Improvement$109kOther$0

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
Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Plains Inc	$1,001,400	9	5%
Brookings Area Transit Authority	$525,800	9	3%
Brookings Foundation	$339,700	9	19%
East Central Mhcd Center Foundation	$309,200	8	n/a
Helpline Center Inc	$306,704	9	2%
Brookings Area Habitat for Humanity Inc	$287,200	9	4%
South Dakota Conference of the United Church of Christ	$277,400	9	n/a
Advance	$244,800	8	1%
East-Central Court Appointed Specia	$190,000	9	21%
Brookings Domestic Abuse Shelter	$174,600	8	13%

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All grantees of Brookings Area United Way by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Plains Inc	$1,001,400	9	5%
Brookings Area Transit Authority	$525,800	9	3%
Brookings Foundation	$339,700	9	19%
East Central Mhcd Center Foundation	$309,200	8	n/a
Helpline Center Inc	$306,704	9	2%
Brookings Area Habitat for Humanity Inc	$287,200	9	4%
South Dakota Conference of the United Church of Christ	$277,400	9	n/a
Advance	$244,800	8	1%
East-Central Court Appointed Specia	$190,000	9	21%
Brookings Domestic Abuse Shelter	$174,600	8	13%
Council for Emergency Services	$163,300	9	17%
Great After-School Place	$161,000	9	4%
Teen Challenge of the Dakotas	$159,900	9	3%
Brookings County Youth Mentoring Program	$158,700	9	37%
Inter-Lakes Community Action Partnership Inc	$136,450	9	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$110,400	8	0%
Delta Dental of South Dakota Foundation	$86,500	9	0%
Volunteer Service Bank	$81,100	9	33%
Brookings Interagency Council	$75,800	4	n/a
Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota	$58,800	8	0%
Harvest Table	$47,500	6	n/a
The Salvation Army	$38,900	4	n/a
Volunteers of America Inc	$32,488	3	n/a
Brookings Arts Council	$30,200	4	17%
Brookings Empowerment Project	$27,900	2	n/a
Brookings Senior Citizens Inc	$21,200	3	n/a
Avera Health	$17,300	1	0%
South Dakota State University	$15,125	2	n/a
United Retirement Center	$8,000	1	0%
Girl Scouts - Dakota Horizons	$5,600	1	0%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Brookings Area United Way supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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 FoundationSD35.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · Larson Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Avera Health · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · Watertown Area United Way Inc · Sioux Empire United Way Inc · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · Valley Queen Charitable Foundation · United Way of Northeastern South Dakota Inc · Sanford Group Return

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.

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About Brookings Area United Way

How much does Brookings Area United Way give?: Brookings Area United Way reported 21 itemized grants totaling $448,800, out of $533,796 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Brookings Area United Way fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (31%), Human Services (29%), Health (13%).
Who are Brookings Area United Way's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Plains Inc ($1.0M), Brookings Area Transit Authority ($526k), Brookings Foundation ($340k).
Does Brookings Area United Way fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Brookings Area United Way?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, Larson Foundation, Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Brookings Area United Way based?: Brookings Area United Way is based in SD.