South Dakota · Private foundation
Engels Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $211k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $131,647
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $440k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Engels Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $211k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $124k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $119k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $4k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $11k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $34k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $29k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $37k | 33% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Club of Watertown | $101,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Great Plains Lutheran High School | $48,329 | 2 | n/a |
| Watertown Baseball Association | $27,350 | 4 | 4% |
| Best Christmas Ever Inc | $18,293 | 2 | 1% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of South Dakota & Montana | $10,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lake Area Kidney Endowment | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Watertown Breast Cancer Support Group | $6,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Arrow Education Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| City of Watertown | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($377k), not named here.
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: Watertown Area Community Foundation · Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc
How this is measured
About Engels Family Foundation
- How much does Engels Family Foundation give?
- Engels Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $211,403 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Engels Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (39%), Youth Development (26%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Engels Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys and Girls Club of Watertown ($101k), Great Plains Lutheran High School ($48k), Watertown Baseball Association ($27k).
- Does Engels Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Engels Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Engels Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Watertown Area Community Foundation, Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc.
- Where is Engels Family Foundation based?
- Engels Family Foundation is based in SD.
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