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Brookings Area United Way at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Brookings Area United Way

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

$534k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$98k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Youth Development$1.6MHuman Services$1.5MHealth$696kHousing & Shelter$440kFood & Nutrition$347kCrime & Legal$190kPublic Safety & Disaster$110kCommunity Improvement$109kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $448,800, the rows itemized in this filing. The $533,796 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $84,996 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 $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $321k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $98k
$16,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BROOKINGS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH & WELLN$17,300
AVERA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH OF BROOKING$17,300
BROOKINGS INTERAGENCY COUNCIL$16,300
BROOKINGS YOUTH MENTORING$16,200
BROOKINGS GREAT AFTER SCHOOL PLACE$16,200
TEEN CHALLENGE$15,000
BROOKINGS FOOD PANTRY$14,300
INTERLAKES COMM ACTION$13,700
02The need
03

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, $1.2M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Brookings Area Transit: $66k → 13%Brookings Area Transit: $58k → 13%BROOKINGS AREA TRANSIT: $53k → 13%BROOKINGS AREA TRANSIT: $52k → 13%BROOKINGS AREA TRANSIT: $52k → 13%BROOKINGS AREA TRANSIT: $52k → 13%Brookings Area Transit: $50k → 13%BROOKINGS AREA TRANSIT: $49k → 13%Brookings Area Transit: $41k → 13%ADVANCE: $38k → 13%ADVANCE: $33k → 13%ADVANCE: $31k → 13%ADVANCE: $31k → 13%ADVANCE: $30k → 13%ADVANCE: $30k → 13%ADVANCE: $29k → 13%ADVANCE: $24k → 13%Brookings Food Pantry: $23k → 13%BROOKINGS FOOD PANTRY: $21k → 13%Brookings Food Pantry: $20k → 13%Brookings Food Pantry: $20k → 13%Brookings Food Pantry: $20k → 13%American Red Cross: $18k → 13%Interlakes Comm Act 60s Plus: $17k → 13%Interlakes Comm Act 60s Plus: $17k → 13%Interlakes Comm Act 60s Plus: $17k → 13%BROOKINGS INTERAGENCY COUNCIL: $16k → 13%INTERLAKES COMM ACTION 60S PLUS DIN: $15k → 13%BROOKINGS FOOD PANTRY: $15k → 13%BROOKINGS FOOD PANTRY: $15k → 13%BROOKINGS FOOD PANTRY: $15k → 13%INTERLAKES COMM ACTION 60S PLUS DIN: $15k → 13%INTERLAKES COMM ACTION 60S PLUS DIN: $15k → 13%INTERLAKES COMM ACTION 60S PLUS DIN: $14k → 13%BROOKINGS FOOD PANTRY: $14k → 13%American Red Cross: $14k → 13%American Red Cross: $14k → 13%American Red Cross: $14k → 13%INTERLAKES COMM ACTION: $14k → 13%Interlakes Comm Act 60s Plus: $14k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $13k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $13k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $13k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 13%BROOKINGS INTERAGENCY COUNCIL: $12k → 13%BROOKINGS INTERAGENCY COUNCIL: $12k → 13%BROOKINGS INTERAGENCY COUNCIL: $12k → 13%ULC Child Development Ctr: $8k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 27 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
2

Total granted

$5.1M
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+32%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +174%
  • BA
    BROOKINGS AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $526k · revenue +110%
  • BF
    Brookings Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue +496%

Funded once

  • UR
    United Retirement Centergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +32%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +9%
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.

1
Brookings Economic Development Corporation

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.

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2
Brookings Regional Humane Society Inc

Brookings Regional Humane Society shelters and protects animals and finds forever homes through pet adoption.

Animals
3
Western South Dakota Senior Services Inc

To assist seniors in maintaining optimal health, independence, and socialization, deferring admission to long term care facilities and improving their quality of life.

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4
Aberdeen Development Corporation

Recruit, retain, expand, and provide entrepreneurial support to enhance economic opportunity in Aberdeen and our surrounding region.

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5
People's Transit

Provide transportation for elderly and disabled serving beadly county in east central south dakota

Human Services
6
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
7
St Luke's Home

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…

Human Services
8
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
9
Catholic Charities North Dakota

Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.

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10
East Dakota Transit Inc

To provide subsidized public transportation in and around madison, sd

Public Benefit
11
Maple Manor Care Center

None

Health
12
Eastern Star Home of South Dakota Incorporated

Provide quality care and services to residents in assisted living and nursing home facilities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota; 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.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
20/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EAST CENTRAL MHCD CENTER FOUNDATION: $309,200 · OtherEAST CENTRAL MHCD CENTER FOUNDATIONHELPLINE CENTER INC: $306,704 · OtherHELPLINE CENTER INCBrookings Area Habitat for Humanity Inc: $287,200 · OtherBrookings Area Habitat for Humanity IncSOUTH DAKOTA CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $277,400 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED CHU…BROOKINGS DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELTER: $174,600 · OtherBROOKINGS DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELTERTEEN CHALLENGE OF THE DAKOTAS: $159,900 · OtherTEEN CHALLENGE OF THE DAKOTASVOLUNTEER SERVICE BANK: $81,100 · OtherBROOKINGS INTERAGENCY COUNCIL: $75,800 · Other+7 more: $238,013 · Other+7 moreBROOKINGS AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY: $525,800 · Human ServicesBROOKINGS AREA TRANSIT AUT…ADVANCE: $244,800 · Human ServicesADVANCECOUNCIL FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES: $163,300 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR EMERGENCY SERV…INTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $136,450 · Human ServicesINTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTI…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $110,400 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cros…+2 more: $29,200 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS INC: $1,001,400 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE …Brookings County Youth Mentoring Program: $158,700 · Youth DevelopmentBrookings County Youth Me…+1 more: $5,600 · Youth DevelopmentBrookings Foundation: $339,700 · PhilanthropyGREAT AFTER-SCHOOL PLACE: $161,000 · EducationLAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $47,800 · EducationEAST-CENTRAL COURT APPOINTED SPECIA: $190,000 · Crime & LegalDELTA DENTAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $86,500 · HealthAvera Health: $17,300 · HealthBrookings Arts Council: $30,200 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,909,917Human Services$1,209,950Youth Development$1,165,700Philanthropy$339,700Education$208,800Crime & Legal$190,000Health$103,800Arts & Culture$30,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS INC: $1,001,400 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetBROOKINGS AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY: $525,800 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetBrookings Foundation: $339,700 over 9y, 19% of budgetHELPLINE CENTER INC: $306,704 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetBrookings Area Habitat for Humanity Inc: $287,200 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetADVANCE: $244,800 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetEAST-CENTRAL COURT APPOINTED SPECIA: $190,000 over 9y, 21% of budgetBROOKINGS DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELTER: $174,600 over 8y, 13% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES: $163,300 over 9y, 17% of budgetGREAT AFTER-SCHOOL PLACE: $161,000 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE OF THE DAKOTAS: $159,900 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetBrookings County Youth Mentoring Program: $158,700 over 9y, 37% of budgetINTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $136,450 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $110,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDELTA DENTAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $86,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetVOLUNTEER SERVICE BANK: $81,100 over 9y, 33% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $58,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $47,800 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBrookings Arts Council: $30,200 over 4y, 17% of budgetAvera Health: $17,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Retirement Center: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS: $5,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Communit…Larson FoundationSioux Falls Area Comm…Avera HealthFirst Interstate Banc…Midcontinent Foundati…Watertown Area United…Sioux Empire United W…Sheldon F Reese Found…Valley Queen Charitab…United Way of Northea…Sanford Group Return
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brookings Area United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brookings Area United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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