South Dakota · Private foundation
Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $156k
- Granted FY2023
- 53
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $113k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $1,272
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 57
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 3
- Total assets, FY2023
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 38 | $109k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $313k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $189k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $184k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $190k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 57 | $208k | 40% |
| FY2017 | 53 | $171k | n/a |
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 FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Home Foundation | $173,000 | 7 | 1% |
| City of Belle Fourche | $126,600 | 7 | n/a |
| Youth & Family Services Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rapid City y M C A | $58,000 | 7 | 0% |
| SDSM&T Center for Alumni Relations & Advancement | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Black Hills Works Inc | $52,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Wellspring Inc | $52,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Black Hills State University Foundation | $43,300 | 4 | 1% |
| South Dakota State University Foundation | $32,000 | 2 | 0% |
| West River Foundation | $25,790 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 84 recipients with no EIN on record ($478k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 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: South Dakota Community Foundation · Black Hills Area Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · Larson Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc · United Way of the Black Hills · Sanford Group Return · John T Vucurevich Foundation · Oahe Foundation · Synchrony Foundation
How this is measured
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About Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee
- How much does Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee give?
- Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee reported 53 itemized grants totaling $113,145, out of $156,045 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 57 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), Education (10%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Children's Home Foundation ($173k), City of Belle Fourche ($127k), Youth & Family Services Inc ($60k).
- Does Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, Black Hills Area Community Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Where is Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee based?
- Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee is based in SD.
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