· Public charity
Brookings Area United Way
Donate monies to agencies in the brookings area in need of financial assitance.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $448,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $533,796 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $84,996 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $321k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROOKINGS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $98,100 |
| BROOKINGS AREA TRANSIT | $49,300 |
| MY NEIGHBOR | $34,400 |
| BROOKINGS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $28,100 |
| ADVANCE | $23,900 |
| BROOKINGS BACKPACK PROJECT | $18,900 |
| EAST CENTRAL CASA PROGRAM | $18,600 |
| AVERA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH OF BROOKING | $17,300 |
| BROOKINGS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH & WELLN | $17,300 |
| BROOKINGS INTERAGENCY COUNCIL | $16,300 |
| BROOKINGS GREAT AFTER SCHOOL PLACE | $16,200 |
| BROOKINGS YOUTH MENTORING | $16,200 |
| TEEN CHALLENGE | $15,000 |
| BROOKINGS FOOD PANTRY | $14,300 |
| INTERLAKES COMM ACTION | $13,700 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +174%
- BABROOKINGS AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY9× · 2017–2025 · $526k · revenue +170%
- HCHELPLINE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $307k · revenue +187%
Funded once
- URUnited Retirement Centergraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +32%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONSone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +9%
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.
Dedicated to serve the Brookings Area by enhancing the economic well-being of the City of Brookings and its surrounding areas and to improve its quality of life and prosperity.
Brookings Regional Humane Society shelters and protects animals and finds forever homes through pet adoption.
Recruit, retain, expand, and provide entrepreneurial support to enhance economic opportunity in Aberdeen and our surrounding region.
To assist seniors in maintaining optimal health, independence, and socialization, deferring admission to long term care facilities and improving their quality of life.
Providing civil legal services to low income individuals in 33 counties in eastern south dakota.
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…
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
St. Luke's Home and its assisted living facility, Park Avenue Villa, exist to provide a continuum of quality care to God's people, creating a compassionate, comfortable, and family oriented atmosphere, striving to enhance the dignity and…
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
The purpose of the brooke county committee on aging is to promote services that will enhance the health, safety, and welfare of the senior population in its planning and service area, and serve as the primary agency within the local…
To provide subsidized public transportation in and around madison, sd
Donate monies to agencies in the brookings area in need of financial assitance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota and the most unlike its peers is East Central Mhcd Center Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 32 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKINGS AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds Brookings Foundation ↗
- Who funds EAST CENTRAL MHCD CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Brookings Area Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE ↗
- Who funds EAST-CENTRAL COURT APPOINTED SPECIA ↗
- Who funds BROOKINGS DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GREAT AFTER-SCHOOL PLACE ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE DAKOTAS ↗
- Who funds Brookings County Youth Mentoring Program ↗
- Who funds INTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DELTA DENTAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER SERVICE BANK ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brookings Arts Council ↗
- Who funds BROOKINGS SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds Avera Health ↗
- Who funds United Retirement Center ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS ↗
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 · 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
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 Brookings Area United Way 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.
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.