· Private foundation
Durnill Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MITCHELL TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $17,740 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $13,610 |
| LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $6,935 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $4,805 |
| BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,935 |
| DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,865 |
| WESTERN DAKOTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $935 |
| EASTERN WYOMING COLLEGE | $935 |
| DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $935 |
| MILES COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $935 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES | $930 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against -99% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DWDAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +16%
- AUAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +42%
- UOUniversity of Jamestown5× · 2018–2022 · $9k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- SDSOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES&TECH FDNone grant, 2023 · $3k
- PCPresentation Collegeone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -99%
- ATANOKA TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
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.
To build meaningful relationships with donors that lead to gifts that support the mission of midlands technical college to prepare students for success in the workforce.
Provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Uniting the dreams of our students, university, and donors to build a better sdsu.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Provide private resources to benefit the university of south dakota.
Saint mary's university of minnesota is a private catholic institution that serves about 3,900 students annually. the university offers a comprehensive, personalized education guided by its lasallian catholic heritage. with a wide array of…
Huntington university is a christ centered institution that exists to carry out the mission of christ in higher education through a curriculum of academic excellence.
The Organization's mission is to accept donations from sources within the United States for the benefit of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The organization operates, manages and promotes ancillary services for the benefit of the campus community, including faculty, staff and students in harmony with the educational mission and goals of the state university college at suny…
Benedict college will be a power for good in society. the college is a full opportunity college with high quality programs of teaching, research, and public service. these programs provide the students and community with knowledge, skills,…
The mission of the alumni association is to benefit the university of southern mississippi, its students, and alumni through upholding traditions, sponsoring activities, events, and publications.
How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank · Glasgow High School Educational Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Durnill Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Durnill Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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