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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $90,440, the rows itemized in this filing. The $162,134 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $71,694 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 · 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • OL
    OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $366k · revenue +9%
  • 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%
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
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 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
3
North Dakota State University Foundation

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

Education
4
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.

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5
Iowa State University Foundation

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

Education
6
South Dakota State University Alumni Association

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

Education
7
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
8
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…

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9
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.

—
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
Southeast Technical College Foundation

The southeast tech foundation is committed to building a solid foundation for tomorrow's workforce. through community involvement, our workforce needs will be fulfilled by providing financial resources that allow our students to meet their…

Education
12
Lake Superior State University Foundation

The Lake Superior State University Foundation exists for the sole purpose of promoting, receiving, managing, and disbursing donations and contributions for the benefit of Lake Superior State University.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Dakota State University Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Oglala Lakota College. 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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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…John T Vucurevich Fou…Black Hills Area Comm…First Interstate Banc…Sioux Falls Area Comm…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    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.

    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 8 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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