South Dakota · Public charity
Capital Area United Way
Receiving and distributing charitable donations to local agencies
- $364k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $340k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $28,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $957k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Capital 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.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $340k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $300k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $406k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $357k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $350k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $361k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $401k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $415k | 6% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Area Counseling Serviceinc | $634,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Community & Youth Involved Inc | $380,000 | 9 | 25% |
| Oahe Young Men's Christian Association | $357,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Missouri Shores Domestic Violence Center | $343,000 | 9 | 12% |
| Avera St Mary's | $298,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Right Turn Inc | $283,900 | 9 | 7% |
| Growing Up Together | $195,500 | 9 | 29% |
| Sioux Council Boy Scouts of America Inc | $167,100 | 7 | 2% |
| Citizens Involvement Council | $167,000 | 5 | 18% |
| Feeding South Dakota | $97,200 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Area Counseling Serviceinc | $634,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Community & Youth Involved Inc | $380,000 | 9 | 25% |
| Oahe Young Men's Christian Association | $357,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Missouri Shores Domestic Violence Center | $343,000 | 9 | 12% |
| Avera St Mary's | $298,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Right Turn Inc | $283,900 | 9 | 7% |
| Growing Up Together | $195,500 | 9 | 29% |
| Sioux Council Boy Scouts of America Inc | $167,100 | 7 | 2% |
| Citizens Involvement Council | $167,000 | 5 | 18% |
| Feeding South Dakota | $97,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Oahe Child Development Center Inc | $96,065 | 9 | 1% |
| Southeast Community Center | $90,500 | 9 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Sd Discovery Center | $77,650 | 9 | n/a |
| Avera St Mary's Foundation | $66,500 | 5 | n/a |
| South Dakota Urban Indian Health Inc | $28,580 | 4 | 0% |
| Oahe Inc | $15,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Governor Grocery | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Capital Area United Way supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Oahe Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Avera Health · Delta Dental of South Dakota · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Capital Area United Way
- How much does Capital Area United Way give?
- Capital Area United Way reported 14 itemized grants totaling $339,500, out of $364,125 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Capital Area United Way fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Human Services (20%), Youth Development (15%).
- Who are Capital Area United Way's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Capital Area Counseling Serviceinc ($634k), Community & Youth Involved Inc ($380k), Oahe Young Men's Christian Association ($358k).
- Does Capital 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 Capital Area United Way?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oahe Foundation, South Dakota Community Foundation, Avera Health.
- Where is Capital Area United Way based?
- Capital Area United Way is based in SD.
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