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Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation

The mission of CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION is to protect and preserve the cultures, traditions, and living heritage of the north american indians.

$162k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$846kRecreation & Sports$40k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $90,440 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $162,134 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $71,694 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$142M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY$31,440
OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE$30,000
SITTING BULL COLLEGE$10,000
WESTERN DAKOTA VO-TECH$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA$9,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 28%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SITTING BULL COLLEGE: $15k → 33%SOUTH DAKOTA PARKS & WILDLIFE: $10k → 10%BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY: $31k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 13%SD SCHOOL OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY: $6k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $32k → 20%OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $42k → 42%SITTING BULL COLLEGE: $15k → 33%SOUTH DAKOTA PARKS & WILDLIFE: $10k → 10%BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY: $22k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 13%WESTERN DAKOTA VO-TECH: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $29k → 20%OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $42k → 42%SITTING BULL COLLEGE: $10k → 33%SOUTH DAKOTA PARKS & WILDLIFE: $10k → 10%BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY: $22k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 13%WESTERN DAKOTA VO-TECH: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $28k → 20%OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $42k → 42%SITTING BULL COLLEGE: $10k → 33%SOUTH DAKOTA PARKS & WILDLIFE: $10k → 10%BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY: $21k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 13%WESTERN DAKOTA VO-TECH: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $25k → 20%OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $42k → 42%SITTING BULL COLLEGE: $10k → 33%WESTERN DAKOTA VO-TECH: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $17k → 20%OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $42k → 42%SITTING BULL COLLEGE: $10k → 33%WESTERN DAKOTA VO-TECH: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $11k → 20%OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $42k → 42%SITTING BULL COLLEGE: $10k → 33%WESTERN DAKOTA VO-TECH: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $9k → 20%OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $42k → 42%SITTING BULL COLLEGE: $10k → 33%WESTERN DAKOTA VO-TECH: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $9k → 20%OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $42k → 42%SITTING BULL COLLEGE: $10k → 33%WESTERN DAKOTA VO-TECH: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $9k → 20%OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $30k → 42%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$880k · 7 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$880k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+141%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • OL
    OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $366k · revenue +22%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +36%
  • SB
    SITTING BULL COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • SC
    SDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +141%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Dakota State University Foundation

Dakota state university foundation is an independent non-profit corporation established for the purpose of raising and managing private funding for the benefit of dakota state university.

Education
2
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
3
North Dakota University System Foundation

The function of the north dakota university system foundation is to support, enrich, advance and improve higher education in the state of north dakota, and to assist its students, faculty and staff.

Philanthropy
4
South Dakota State University Alumni Association

Foster loyalty and fellowship among South Dakota State University Alumni, Faculty, Students and Former Students.

Education
5
Dakota County Technical College Foundation

The dctc foundation's mission is to foster student success and elevate the academic experience at dakota county technical college by securing resources through strong partnerships with employers, alumni, and the community.

6
State University of Iowa Alumni Association

Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.

7
Iowa State University Foundation

Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.

Education
8
Minnesota State College Southeast Foundation

Minnesota state college southeast foundation assists the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers, and communities within our service area.

Education
9
Valley City State University Foundation

Valley City State University Foundation aids in the advancement of Valley City State University by awarding scholarships and by promoting the University. Support comes primarily from contributions by individuals and businesses, fundraising…

10
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
11
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
12
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Dakota State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is South Dakota Parks and Wildlife Foundation. 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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE — $366,000 · EducationOGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION — $167,330 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATIONBLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $96,240 · EducationBLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $30,600 · Education+1 more — $6,000 · EducationSITTING BULL COLLEGE — $100,000 · OtherSITTING BULL COLLEGEWESTERN DAKOTA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 · OtherWESTERN DAKOTA VOCATIONAL TE…SOUTH DAKOTA PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA PARKS AND WILDL…
Education$666,170Other$220,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE — $366,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION — $167,330 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSITTING BULL COLLEGE — $100,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $96,240 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWESTERN DAKOTA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $30,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

South Dakota Community FoundationSD19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · John T Vucurevich Foundation · Black Hills Area Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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