South Dakota · Public charity
Elevate Rapid City
Elevate the rapid city region for all.
- $858k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $471k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $49,686
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $201,004
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $35M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 73% of the organizations Elevate Rapid City funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $471k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $403k | 73% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $270k | 88% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $200k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $125k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $142k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota Ellsworth Development Authority | $901,012 | 5 | n/a |
| Phase Technologies | $162,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Visit Rapid City | $142,158 | 1 | 10% |
| Rural America Initiatives | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Rapid City y M C A | $49,686 | 1 | 1% |
| Main Street Square | $37,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Black Hills Behavior LLC | $30,126 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Dakota Vocational Technical Foundation Inc | $27,838 | 2 | 1% |
| South Dakota State University | $27,621 | 3 | n/a |
| United Way of the Black Hills | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota Ellsworth Development Authority | $901,012 | 5 | n/a |
| Phase Technologies | $162,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Visit Rapid City | $142,158 | 1 | 10% |
| Rural America Initiatives | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Rapid City y M C A | $49,686 | 1 | 1% |
| Main Street Square | $37,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Black Hills Behavior LLC | $30,126 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Dakota Vocational Technical Foundation Inc | $27,838 | 2 | 1% |
| South Dakota State University | $27,621 | 3 | n/a |
| United Way of the Black Hills | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Western Dakota Regional Water System | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| B9 Creations LLC | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| South Dakota Trade Association | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Westminster Presbyterian Church | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nugget Enterprises LLP | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Property Meld | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Midwestern Mechanical Inc | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Terrasite Design | $5,248 | 1 | n/a |
| Darceo Inc | $5,025 | 1 | n/a |
| Cole-Tac LLC | $5,002 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elevate Rapid City supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc · John T Vucurevich Foundation · Black Hills Area Community Foundation · American Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Elevate Rapid City
- How much does Elevate Rapid City give?
- Elevate Rapid City reported 9 itemized grants totaling $471,386, out of $857,836 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Elevate Rapid City fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (72%), Employment (12%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Elevate Rapid City's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: South Dakota Ellsworth Development Authority ($901k), Phase Technologies ($162k), Visit Rapid City ($142k).
- Does Elevate Rapid City fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elevate Rapid City?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc.
- Where is Elevate Rapid City based?
- Elevate Rapid City is based in SD.
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