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Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$298k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2025
33
Organizations funded FY2024
12%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,900
Largest grant, FY2025
$86,993
Organizations funded a year
24 to 34
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving29$298k3%
FY202433$262k12%
FY202331$257k26%
FY202230$279k10%
FY202134$273k18%
FY202029$304k17%
FY201929$207k24%
FY201824$162k33%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.2MReligion$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
OR
WY
SD
IA
IN
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mount Marty University$134,13890%
University of Sioux Falls$62,11590%
Evangel University$57,31180%
Dakota Wesleyan University$34,17590%
Augustana University Association$25,38770%
Presentation College$22,83170%
University of Mary$21,45070%
Concordia College Corporation$19,06670%
Dordt University$10,81430%
Trinity Bible College and Graduate School$9,61450%
University of Northwestern - St Paul$6,87040%
Northwestern College$6,76640%
Valley City State University$6,6744n/a
Nebraska Wesleyan University$4,98130%
Brigham Young University$4,9053n/a
Creighton University$3,14220%
Drury University$3,14220%
Colorado Christian University$3,14220%
University of Jamestown$3,14220%
Grand Canyon University$2,99220%
Belmont University$2,64120%
Kansas City University$2,56520%
University of Florida$2,5652n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$2,3582n/a
University of Dubuque$2,35720%
Briar Cliff University$1,38410%
Rocky Mountain College$1,36810%
Liberty University Inc$1,35010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMount Marty University: $134,138 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Sioux Falls: $62,115 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEvangel University: $57,311 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDakota Wesleyan University: $34,175 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAugustana University Association: $25,387 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPresentation College: $22,831 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Mary: $21,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetConcordia College Corporation: $19,066 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDordt University: $10,814 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Bible College and Graduate School: $9,614 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Northwestern - St Paul: $6,870 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern College: $6,766 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNebraska Wesleyan University: $4,981 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $3,142 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDrury University: $3,142 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Christian University: $3,142 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Jamestown: $3,142 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $2,992 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $2,641 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City University: $2,565 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dubuque: $2,357 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBriar Cliff University: $1,384 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain College: $1,368 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiberty University Inc: $1,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Folds of Honor FoundationOK19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Folds of Honor Foundation · The Hatterscheidt Foundation Inc · The Leonard Rydell Foundation · La Amundson Ohana Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Eagle Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Durnill Charitable Trust · A L Steinke Perpetual Scholarship · South Dakota Education Access Foundation · Sanford Group Return

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.

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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank

How much does Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank give?
Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank reported 29 grants totaling $298,306 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Religion (0%).
Who are Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mount Marty University ($134k), University of Sioux Falls ($62k), Evangel University ($57k).
Does Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Folds of Honor Foundation, The Hatterscheidt Foundation Inc, The Leonard Rydell Foundation.
Where is Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank based?
Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank is based in SD.

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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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