· Private foundation
Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of EDWARD L SCHWAB MEMORIAL FOUNDATION DACOTAH BANK’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $156k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $86,993 |
| LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $69,460 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $15,263 |
| MOUNT MARTY COLLEGE | $13,865 |
| AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY | $12,233 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $12,233 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS | $10,965 |
| MITCHELL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE | $10,466 |
| DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,333 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY | $7,566 |
| BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY | $6,933 |
| DORDT UNIVERSITY | $5,800 |
| NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,033 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN | $2,900 |
| MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY - MOORHEAD | $2,900 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
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
- MMMOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +63%
- EUEvangel University8× · 2018–2025 · $57k · revenue +54%
- DWDAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - MORRISone grant, 2019 · $2k
- BCBRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +9%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +7%
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.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…
We are a Catholic, co-educational, liberal arts university founded in 1843 by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa. Clarke educates students at the post-secondary level in the liberal arts and sciences, the…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Marty University and the most unlike its peers is University of Mary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 75 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 60 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 MOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds Evangel University ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Presentation College ↗
- Who funds University of Mary ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY BIBLE COLLEGE AND GRADUATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds University of Jamestown ↗
- Who funds Drury University ↗
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: 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
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 Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank 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.
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