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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of CLARKSON FAMILY FOUNDATION PIONEER BANK & TRUST TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 46 grants below total $100,645 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $156,045 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,400 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k44 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Children's Home Foundation | $10,000 |
| City of Belle Fourche | $10,000 |
| SDSU Foundation | $7,000 |
| United Way of the Black Hills | $5,925 |
| City of Belle Fourche | $5,000 |
| Shirley Speaks Inc | $5,000 |
| Harding County School District | $5,000 |
| YMCA of Rapid City | $3,500 |
| SDCF - Spearfish Community Fund | $3,500 |
| YMCA of Rapid City | $3,250 |
| Meade 46-1 | $3,000 |
| LSS | $2,500 |
| Spearfish Foundation for Public Education | $2,500 |
| Rapid City Club for Boys Inc | $2,500 |
| St James Episcopal Church | $2,500 |
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.
Your 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 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 +19% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2023, 59 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- CHCHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $173k · revenue +151%
- YFYOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +19%
- SCSDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT4× · 2017–2020 · $55k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- SSSD State Fair Foundationone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $14k
- CRCORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION FOUNDATIone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
Giving every child an opportunity to develop character and live a healthy lifestyle in the schools and communities where they grow up.
Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.
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
To Support the Sport of Softball
Direct and coordinate interscholastic activities for member schools.
Invest in the future of south dakota agriculture through a focus on education, innovation, diversification, action, and opportunity.
Promote economic growth in the southjern black hills of south dakota
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…
To provide member education opportunities in the areas of agriculture and cooperative organizations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Hills Area Community Foundation and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 166 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 CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds RAPID CITY Y M C A ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee 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.
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