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Dakota Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$15MHousing & Shelter$4.3MCommunity Improvement$3.0MCrime & Legal$2.8MHealth$1.7MAnimals$1.4MHuman Services$1.1MEducation$892kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $610k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ABBOTT HOUSE: $10k → 14%SIOUX YMCA: $3k → 39%SIOUX YMCA: $3k → 39%BUFFALO GAP BLOW OUT: $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
MA
NV
SD
IN
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NM
NC
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

47
20

Total granted

$32M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+55%

Still filing today

53%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NB
    National Buffalo Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +8% · 79% of their budget
  • MH
    Monument Health Rapid City Hospital Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +15%
  • FS
    FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA
    3× · 2018–2022 · $403k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2021 · $600k
  • BM
    BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INC DBA WEST RIVER MENTAL HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $400k · revenue +77%
  • NB
    NATIONAL BISON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
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
Bosque School

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.

Education
2
Regional West Health Services

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

Health
3
Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education
4
Dakota Wesleyan University

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.

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
6
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
7
North Dakota State University Foundation

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

Education
8
The Branson School

To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.

Education
9
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

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,…

Education
10
Explorer West an Independent Middle School

We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.

Education
11
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
12
Crows Shadow Institute Inc

Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts provides educational, social and economic opportunitities to Native Americans through artistic development.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Institute of the Range & the American Mustang; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
26/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $13,862,579 · OtherBH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONPENNINGTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $2,700,000 · OtherPENNINGTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICEUNITED WAY OF THE BLACK H: $1,510,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF RAPID: $823,500 · Other+56 more: $5,039,636 · Other+56 moreONEHEART: $3,722,732 · Housing & ShelterONEHEARTMAIN STREET SQUARE: $2,841,250 · Community ImprovementMAIN STREE…RURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES: $155,300 · Community Improvement+1 more: $50,000 · Community ImprovementNational Buffalo Foundation: $1,136,000 · PhilanthropyMonument Health Rapid City Hospital Inc: $1,000,000 · HealthCulver Educational Foundation: $203,228 · EducationSAN DOMENICO SCHOOL: $85,000 · EducationTHE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75,000 · EducationTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationCatching the Dream: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $16,000 · EducationFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $402,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$23,935,715Housing & Shelter$3,722,732Community Improvement$3,046,550Philanthropy$1,136,000Health$1,000,000Education$484,228Food & Nutrition$402,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetONEHEART: $3,722,732 over 4y, 24% of budgetMAIN STREET SQUARE: $2,841,250 over 8y, 45% of budgetNational Buffalo Foundation: $1,136,000 over 4y, 79% of budgetMonument Health Rapid City Hospital Inc: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $402,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC: $390,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetJourney On Inc: $209,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetCulver Educational Foundation: $203,228 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetIDEA WILD INC: $200,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetRURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES: $155,300 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWORKING AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $115,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetLNI: $100,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetBlack Hills Powwow Association: $90,000 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetSAN DOMENICO SCHOOL: $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPUTNEY SCHOOL INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGreenwood School: $80,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDREW SCHOOL: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBUFFALO GAP BLOW OUT: $50,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetELEVATE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatching the Dream: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBOLINAS MUSEUM: $20,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF THE RANGE & THE AMERICAN MUSTANG: $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALLIED ARTS FUND DRIVE INC: $10,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetABBOTT HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIOUX YMCA: $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMedicine Wheel Ride: $5,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 1489: $4,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION: $1,270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Black Hills Area Comm…South Dakota Communit…Gwendolyn L Stearns F…First Interstate Banc…United Way of the Bla…Larson FoundationMidcontinent Foundati…Synchrony FoundationAssurant FoundationSioux Falls Area Comm…Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…
Black Hills Area Community FoundationSD32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dakota Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dakota Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    1get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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 75 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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