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Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank at a glance

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Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$298k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$87k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $156k
$2,900
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$86,993
LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE$69,460
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA$15,263
MOUNT MARTY COLLEGE$13,865
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$12,233
AUGUSTANA 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
NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE$2,900
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN$2,900
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EVANGEL UNIVERSITY: $13k → 15%NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 12%AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY: $12k → 9%DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 10%LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $69k → 11%NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $21k → 11%MOUNT MARTY COLLEGE: $28k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $87k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $32k → 20%EVANGEL UNIVERSITY: $12k → 15%DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 10%LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $62k → 11%NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $18k → 11%MOUNT MARTY COLLEGE: $21k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $83k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $28k → 20%DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $14k → 10%LAKE AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $55k → 11%NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 11%MOUNT MARTY COLLEGE: $17k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $82k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $28k → 20%LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $54k → 11%NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%MOUNT MARTY COLLEGE: $16k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $19k → 20%LAKE AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $52k → 11%NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $14k → 11%MOUNT MARTY COLLEGE: $16k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $15k → 20%LAKE AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $50k → 11%NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%MOUNT MARTY COLLEGE: $14k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $74k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $15k → 20%LAKE AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $31k → 11%NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $61k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $15k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $13k → 9%LAKE AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $27k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $58k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $12k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $12k → 9%LAKE AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $27k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $53k → 13%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

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 52 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
7

Total granted

$2.2M
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+9%

Still filing today

40%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • MM
    MOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +63%
  • EU
    Evangel University
    8× · 2018–2025 · $57k · revenue +54%
  • DW
    DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - MORRIS
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • BC
    BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +9%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +7%
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
Union College

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.

Education
2
Benedictine University

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…

Education
3
Loyola University

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…

Education
4
Regent University

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.

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5
Excelsior University

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…

Education
6
Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa

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…

Education
7
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
8
Augustana College

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…

Education
9
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
10
California Lutheran University

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.

Education
11
John Brown University

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
12
LaGrange College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Marty University; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 60 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
21/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $650,671 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITYLAKE AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $241,961 · OtherLAKE AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTELAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $184,991 · OtherLAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $172,693 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTANORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $123,128 · OtherNORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITYDAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $81,678 · Other+32 more: $338,423 · Other+32 moreMOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY: $134,138 · EducationMOUNT MARTY UNIVERSIT…UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $62,115 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX F…Evangel University: $57,311 · EducationEvangel UniversityDAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $34,175 · EducationDAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVE…AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $25,387 · EducationAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY …Presentation College: $22,831 · EducationPresentation CollegeUniversity of Mary: $21,450 · Education+15 more: $56,656 · Education+15 more
Other$1,793,545Education$414,063

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

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
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 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 Drury University ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗

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 Founda…The Hatterscheidt Fou…The Leonard Rydell Fo…La Amundson Ohana Fou…Tulsa Community Found…The Eagle FoundationSouth Dakota Communit…United Way WorldwideDurnill Charitable Tr…A L Steinke Perpetual…South Dakota Educatio…Sanford Group Return
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    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.

    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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