· Private foundation
Dakota Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $610k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL BUFFALO FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| MONUMENT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| ONEHEART | $249,765 |
| MAIN STREET SQUARE | $150,000 |
| REMEMBERING THE CHILDREN MEMORIAL | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $60,000 |
| ELEVATE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LAKOTA NATION INVITATIONAL | $20,000 |
| BLACK HILLS POW WOW ASSOC | $20,000 |
| WARREN WILSON COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| WILD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CLOUD HORSE ART INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SD PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $5,000 |
| SHAMUS PROJECT INC | $2,500 |
| ST ISAAC JOGUES CATHOLIC 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 (FY19–23, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 38%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
47 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k 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
- NBNational Buffalo Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +8% · 79% of their budget
- MHMonument Health Rapid City Hospital Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +15%
- FSFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA3× · 2018–2022 · $403k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2021 · $600k
- BMBEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INC DBA WEST RIVER MENTAL HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $400k · revenue +77%
- NBNATIONAL BISON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $250k
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.
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
Dakota wesleyan university aspires to be a leading university that educates students to identify and develop their individual talents for successful lives in service to god and the common good.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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…
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts provides educational, social and economic opportunitities to Native Americans through artistic development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Institute of the Range & the American Mustang and the most unlike its peers is Buffalo Gap Blow Out. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 25. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 75 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 ONEHEART ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET SQUARE ↗
- Who funds National Buffalo Foundation ↗
- Who funds Monument Health Rapid City Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INC DBA WEST RIVER MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC ↗
- Who funds Journey On Inc ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds IDEA WILD INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds WORKING AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LNI ↗
- Who funds Black Hills Powwow Association ↗
- Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Greenwood School ↗
- Who funds THE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds DREW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO GAP BLOW OUT ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
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: Black Hills Area Community Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · United Way of the Black Hills · Larson Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community 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 Dakota Charitable Foundation Inc 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.