South Dakota · Public charity
GreatLife Cares Foundation
The Focus of GreatLife Cares Foundation is:To enrich the lives of families and individuals through golf, fitness and healthy lifestyles.To Help develop values, character and leadership qualities in mentoring relationships through involvement in golf, fitness and athletics.To provide programs and education on golf, fitness, nutrition and…
- $184k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $139k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $187k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations GreatLife Cares Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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 | 13 | $139k | 54% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $72k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $20k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $56k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $53k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $136k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Kansas City Royals Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sioux Empire United Way Inc | $32,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Team Rubicon Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sioux Falls Zoo & Aquarium | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Feeding South Dakota | $19,450 | 3 | 0% |
| Center of Hope | $12,250 | 1 | 3% |
| Dakotabilities Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Furniture Mission of South Dakota | $9,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Stockyards Plaza Inc | $7,875 | 1 | 18% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Kansas City Royals Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sioux Empire United Way Inc | $32,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Team Rubicon Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sioux Falls Zoo & Aquarium | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Feeding South Dakota | $19,450 | 3 | 0% |
| Center of Hope | $12,250 | 1 | 3% |
| Dakotabilities Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Furniture Mission of South Dakota | $9,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Stockyards Plaza Inc | $7,875 | 1 | 18% |
| St Francis House of Sioux Falls | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($247k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget GreatLife Cares Foundation 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: Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · Levo Cares Foundation · Avera Health · South Dakota Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Tenfold Foundation Inc · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · Sanford Group Return · The Graco Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About GreatLife Cares Foundation
- How much does GreatLife Cares Foundation give?
- GreatLife Cares Foundation reported 13 itemized grants totaling $139,000, out of $184,450 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does GreatLife Cares Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (26%), Youth Development (15%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are GreatLife Cares Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Kansas City Royals Foundation ($50k), Sioux Empire United Way Inc ($32k), Team Rubicon Inc ($30k).
- Does GreatLife Cares Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as GreatLife Cares Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc, Midcontinent Foundation, Levo Cares Foundation.
- Where is GreatLife Cares Foundation based?
- GreatLife Cares Foundation is based in SD.
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