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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
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$309kEducation$184kArts & Culture$124kRecreation & Sports$110kYouth Development$94kPublic Benefit$92kPhilanthropy$78kEmployment$53kOther$0
02FY2023 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 53 grants below total $113,145, the rows itemized in this filing. The $156,045 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $42,900 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k51 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$1,272
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
City of Belle Fourche$10,000
Children's Home Foundation$10,000
SDSU Foundation$7,000
United Way of the Black Hills$5,925
Harding County School District$5,000
Shirley Speaks Inc$5,000
City of Belle Fourche$5,000
YMCA of Rapid City$3,500
SDCF - Spearfish Community Fund$3,500
YMCA of Rapid City$3,250
YMCA of Rapid City$3,250
Meade 46-1$3,000
Rapid City Club for Boys Inc$2,500
Rapid City Club for Boys Inc$2,500
St James Episcopal Church$2,500
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 (FY17–21, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YMCA OF RAPID CITY: $11k → 14%YMCA OF RAPID CITY: $11k → 14%RAPID CITY YMCA: $11k → 14%WELLFULLY: $10k → 14%WELLFULLY: $10k → 14%WELLFULLY: $10k → 14%WELLFULLY: $10k → 14%RAPID CITY YMCA: $1k → 14%RAPID CITY YMCA: $1k → 14%ABBOTT HOUSE: $1k → 14%ABBOTT HOUSE: $500 → 14%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 80 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2023, 55 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
50

Total granted

$1.2M
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+18%

Still filing today

33%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $173k · revenue +151%
  • YF
    YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +19%
  • RC
    RAPID CITY Y M C A
    7× · 2017–2023 · $58k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • SS
    SD State Fair Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $14k
  • CR
    CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION FOUNDATI
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Protecting South Dakota Kids Foundation
Education
2
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
—
3
State Historical Society of North Dakota Foundation

The state historical society of north dakota foundation exists to secure private funding to support the state historical society of north dakota in identifying, preserving, interpreting, and promoting north dakota history.

—
4
South Dakota Youth Foundation

Giving every child an opportunity to develop character and live a healthy lifestyle in the schools and communities where they grow up.

Youth Development
5
South Dakota Retailers Association

Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.

—
6
South Dakota State Fair Foundation

To support activities designed to enhance, improve, expand and continue the south dakota state fair as an agricultural, educational, developmental and entertainment venue in the state

Community Improvement
7
Sioux Falls Cyclones

To Support the Sport of Softball

Recreation & Sports
8
South Dakota High School Activities Association

Direct and coordinate interscholastic activities for member schools.

Environment
9
South Dakota Agricultural Foundation Inc

Invest in the future of south dakota agriculture through a focus on education, innovation, diversification, action, and opportunity.

Food & Nutrition
10
Southern Hills Economic Development

Promote economic growth in the southjern black hills of south dakota

—
11
Research Park At Sdsu

The sdsu growth partnership, ltd is dedicated to serve the brookings area, the state of south dakota and adjacent communities and states. to accomplish this goal, a long-term development strategy has been incorporated that will, over…

Education
12
South Dakota Farmers Union Foundati

To provide member education opportunities in the areas of agriculture and cooperative organizations.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Hills Area Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Harding County Stockgrowers. 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

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 146 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
28/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF BELLE FOURCHE: $126,600 · OtherCITY OF BELLE FOURCHEIndividual grant recipient: $85,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $60,000 · OtherYOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INCSD State Fair Foundation: $50,000 · OtherSD State Fair FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $27,520 · Other+117 more: $458,506 · Other+117 moreCHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION: $173,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDAT…RAPID CITY Y M C A: $58,000 · Human ServicesRAPID CITY Y M C AWELLSPRING INC: $52,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING INC+3 more: $8,700 · Human ServicesSDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT: $55,000 · EducationSDSM&T CENT…BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $43,300 · EducationBLACK HILLS…SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $32,000 · EducationSOUTH DAKOT…SPEARFISH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC ED INC: $10,000 · EducationSPEARFISH F…+1 more: $3,000 · EducationBLACK HILLS WORKS INC: $52,500 · EmploymentUNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS: $18,495 · PhilanthropySOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyBLACK HILLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,100 · PhilanthropySOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHigh Plains Heritage Society Inc: $7,100 · Arts & CultureSOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MATTHEWS OPERA HOUSE AND ARTS CENTER: $1,250 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureBELLA PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER: $13,000 · HealthMonument Health Rapid City Hospital Inc: $1,150 · Health
Other$807,626Human Services$291,700Education$143,300Employment$52,500Philanthropy$36,095Arts & Culture$34,600Health$14,150

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 budgetCHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION: $173,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRAPID CITY Y M C A: $58,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT: $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK HILLS WORKS INC: $52,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING INC: $52,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $43,300 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST RIVER FOUNDATION: $25,790 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS: $18,495 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBELLA PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER: $13,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHARDING COUNTY STOCKGROWERS: $11,650 over 3y, 17% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPEARFISH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC ED INC: $10,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetHigh Plains Heritage Society Inc: $7,100 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALLIED ARTS FUND DRIVE INC: $5,750 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBOOTH SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRAPID CITY CLUB FOR BOYS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHIRLEY SPEAKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRealtors for Kids Inc: $3,875 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $3,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPOST 22 BASEBALL FOUNDATION INC: $3,250 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBLACK HILLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLACK HILLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEENPACT LEADERSHIP SCHOOLS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Dakota Kids Belong: $2,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetABBOTT HOUSE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEWELL COMMUNITY CLUB INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MATTHEWS OPERA HOUSE AND ARTS CENTER: $1,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMonument Health Rapid City Hospital Inc: $1,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN STURGIS FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetWIT Whatever It Takes Coalition: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBLACK HILLS ROUNDUP: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK HILLS SHOOTIST ASSOC LTD: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHISTORIC HOMESTAKE OPERA HOUSE SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGYMSTARS BOOSTER CLUB: $250 over 1y, 0.3% 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 CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds RAPID CITY Y M C A ↗
  • Who funds SDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT ↗
  • Who funds BLACK HILLS WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WEST RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS ↗
  • Who funds BELLA PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HARDING COUNTY STOCKGROWERS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPEARFISH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC ED INC ↗
  • Who funds High Plains Heritage Society Inc ↗

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…Black Hills Area Comm…First Interstate Banc…Midcontinent Foundati…Larson FoundationSioux Falls Area Comm…Gwendolyn L Stearns F…United Way of the Bla…Sanford Group ReturnJohn T Vucurevich Fou…Oahe FoundationSynchrony Foundation
South Dakota Community FoundationSD60.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 146 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $187k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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