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· Public charity
Brookings Economic Development
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.
$442k
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
1
Communities
$361k
Largest
01What you fund
0172% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Education$798kYouth Development$361kCommunity Improvement$35kPhilanthropy$20kOther$476k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
educational
2020
educational
2021
educational
2022
educational
2023
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $81k
- $250k+1 grant · $361k
$36,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Boys and Girls Club of Brooki$360,620
- Research Park at SDSU$36,000
- Brookings Economic Developmen$35,000
- Teen Challenge of the Dakotas$10,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$913k · 3 repeat orgs$777k to everyone else
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
4
Total granted
$913k
$371k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
-32%
-14%
Still filing today
100%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $406k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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
- SGSDSU Growth Partnership7× · 2017–2024 · $672k · revenue +177%
- EIEnterprise Institute4× · 2019–2022 · $126k · revenue -32%
- BCBrookings Chamber of Commerce3× · 2019–2023 · $115k · revenue -33%
Funded once
- COCity of Brookingsone grant, 2023 · $216k
- PAPrairie Aquatechone grant, 2017 · $100k
- DBDowntown Brookingsone grant, 2023 · $35k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Aberdeen Development Corporation
Formed to encourage and promote development of industrial, commercial, and other types of business in Brown County, SD and the surrounding area.
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2
South Dakota Biotechnology Association
A south dakota alliance dedicated to the development of biotechnology industries through expansion of bio-based research, investment, education, advocacy, funding, education, infrastructure development, and promotion.
Community Improvement
3
Deadwood Area Chamber & Visitor's Bureau
The chamber promotes the City of Deadwood and the surrounding area and encourages economic development and expansion through the numerous committees and activities it supports and promotes.
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4
South Dakota State University Alumni
Foster loyalty and fellowship among South Dakota State University Alumni, Faculty, Students and Former Students.
Education
5
South Dakota Association of
Rural water development in south dakota
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6
Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce
Promote business and community development in the dickinson, nd, area.
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7
Ne South Dakota Community
The organization was formed to reduce poverty, revitalize low-income communities, and empower low-income individuals and families to become self sufficient.
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8
South Dakota Chamber of Commerce
The south dakota chamber of commerce and industry will provided leadership to ensure a vigorous and prosperous business climate for the benefit for all south dakotans.
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9
Ndsu Research & Technology Park
To achieve successful, technology-based economic start-up entrepreneurs, high-tech businesses and the research of North Dakota State University will lead to the creation of new business ventures.
Science & Tech
10
Valley City - Barnes County Development
To promote economic development to the City of Valley City and surrounding Barnes County area.
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11
South Dakota Trade Association
South Dakota Trade navigates international trade for South Dakota. The association is a public-private partnership conductingexport education, administration of the SD STEP Grant program and provides free export consulting services.
Community Improvement
12
South Dakota Retailers Association
Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brookings Economic Development and the most unlike its peers is Teen Challenge of the Dakotas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$798,000Other$476,215Youth Development$360,620Community Improvement$35,000Philanthropy$20,000
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 SDSU Growth Partnership ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Brooki ↗
- Who funds Enterprise Institute ↗
- Who funds Brookings Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds Brookings Economic Developmen ↗
- Who funds Downtown Brookings ↗
- Who funds South Dakota Community Founda ↗
- Who funds Teen Challenge of the Dakotas ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation Brookings Economic Development 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SDSU Growth Partnership.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.8× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 202506183 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SDSU Growth Partnership, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Brookings Economic Development?
Find your warmest path to Brookings Economic Development through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines