How much did DAKOTA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of DAKOTA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

religiousmuseumrapidnativeconservation

2019

rapidmuseumarts

2020

museumsanwild

2021

tamhorsesanwild

2022

buffalolakota

2023

lakota

2024

native

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 19 grants

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

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$21M

Total assets

Largest grants

MONUMENT HEALTH FOUNDATION$250,000
NATIONAL BUFFALO 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
BLACK HILLS POW WOW ASSOC$20,000
LAKOTA NATION INVITATIONAL$20,000
WARREN WILSON COLLEGE$15,000
WILD FOUNDATION$10,000
CLOUD HORSE ART INSTITUTE$5,000
FRIENDS OF SD PUBLIC BROADCASTING$5,000
NATIVE POP - PEOPLE OF THE PLAINS$2,500
SHAMUS PROJECT INC$2,500

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 38% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$32M · 47 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$32M

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+89%

Still filing today

36%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentScience & TechOther

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

NB
NATIONAL BUFFALO FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +156% · 79% of their budget
FS
FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA
3× · 2018–2022 · $403k · revenue +36%
IW
IDEA WILD
6× · 2017–2023 · $200k · revenue +15%

Funded once

HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
one grant, 2021 · $600k · revenue +0%
BM
BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEMSgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $400k · revenue +77%
RC
RAPID CITY REGIONAL HOSP FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $250k

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.

Bosque School

Bosque School is a coeducational college preparatory school creating transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate…

Education

Circle of Nations

Circle of Nations is an inter-tribal off-reservation boarding school, chartered under the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Oyate and funded by the Bureau of Indian Education. Circle of Nations School serves American Indian Youth in grades 4…

Education

Black Hills Works Inc

Creating a community where everyone participates to achieve a life of full potential.

Employment

The Berkeley School

A preschool-8th grade independent school whose mission is to ignite curious minds, awaken generous hearts, and engage a changing world.

—

The Island School

To educate each of our children; to nourish their innate curiosity, inspire a lifelong enthusiasm for learning, and foster respect and appreciation for themselves and others.

Education

The Branson School

To provide a quality education to students grade 9 through 12.

Education

Western Resources for Independ

To advocate disabled individual

Human Services

Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health

Blackfoot Charter

Public Education.

Education

Berkwood School

K-8 education using a hands-on development curriculum that promotes deep and intuitive learning. Students achieve academic excellence by becoming critical thinkers and creative problem solvers.

Education

The National Native American Boarding Sc

To pursue truth, healing, and reconciliation to address ongoing intergenerational trauma from the u.s. indian boarding school policy and to support community led healing.

Arts & Culture

Leadership Wyoming

Inspiring wyoming's leaders through exploration and connection. wyoming leaders have a deep self-knowledge and understanding of the state's communities and industries and choose to lead with civility and respect.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oneheart. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/39

the rest of the field

440/6,933

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.

05the grantee network

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/29

Grantees still filing

24/29

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$25,117,743Housing & Shelter$3,722,732Community Improvement$2,891,250Philanthropy$1,136,000Food & Nutrition$402,500Education$246,000Youth Development$211,500

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.

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 FoundationSD25.1× affinity10 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 · Midcontinent Foundation · Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc · United Way of the Black Hills · Larson Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community · Jewish Community Federation of San · Marin Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · The Minneapolis 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NATIONAL BUFFALO FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~52 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237077775 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NATIONAL BUFFALO FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 52 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 79% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Dakota Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dakota Charitable Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DAKOTA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dakota Charitable Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

DAKOTA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dakota Charitable Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph