· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $81k
- $250k+1 grant · $361k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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 -17% since the first grant, against -40% for the ones you funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $406k 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
- RPRESEARCH PARK AT SDSU7× · 2017–2024 · $672k · revenue +177%
- EIEnterprise Institute4× · 2019–2022 · $126k · revenue -17%
- BABROOKINGS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE3× · 2019–2023 · $115k · revenue -44%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone 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.
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.
Our mission is to support the long-term growth and prosperity of South Dakota and the Northern Great Plains by providing decision-makers in all fields with insights based on the best-available data and strong analytics to inform their…
Recruit, retain, expand, and provide entrepreneurial support to enhance economic opportunity in Aberdeen and our surrounding region.
The Chamber works to improve and enhance the city of Deadwood and the regions business environment.
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.
The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.
Economic development in the watertown, south dakota area.
Foster loyalty and fellowship among South Dakota State University Alumni, Faculty, Students and Former Students.
Downtown Sioux Falls boldly leads the downtown community by championing diverse experiences, economic growth, and a healthy environment.
To identify and provide financing opportunities and technical assistance to emerging and existing businesses, provide community and economic development planning and implementation for the long-term sustainability and growth of the region,…
Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE
Provide assistance to meet needs in Brookings, South Dakota through nineteen separate funds, which consist primarily of donor designated funds.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Research Park At Sdsu 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.
8 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. 8 of the 10 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 RESEARCH PARK AT SDSU ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds Enterprise Institute ↗
- Who funds BROOKINGS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Downtown Brookings ↗
- Who funds Brookings Economic Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE DAKOTAS ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brookings Economic Development Corporation 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.