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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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $139,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $184,450 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,450 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TeamMates of Sioux Falls | $50,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athle | $11,500 |
| Junior Achievement | $11,000 |
| Soux Empire United Way | $11,000 |
| Furniture Mission | $9,500 |
| YMCA | $7,500 |
| Bishop OGorman Catholic Scho | $5,500 |
| SF Hope Coalition | $5,500 |
| St Francis House | $5,500 |
| Young Life | $5,500 |
| Volunteer of America | $5,500 |
| Feeding South Dakota | $5,500 |
| Boys and Girls Club | $5,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +110% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SESIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC3× · 2021–2024 · $32k · revenue +2%
- SFSIOUX FALLS ZOO & AQUARIUM2× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +131%
- DIDAKOTABILITIES INC2× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- TKTHE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +44%
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +129%- TRTEAM RUBICON INCone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +18%
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.
Downtown Sioux Falls boldly leads the downtown community by championing diverse experiences, economic growth, and a healthy environment.
Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.
Sd voices for peace provides five programming areas to assist vulnerable communities access services throughout the state: legal services, multilingual outreach, training and education, advocacy and civic engagement and rapid response.
Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…
To act as the local governing board of sioux city housing trust fund by collecting and disbursing revenue for the purpose of encouraging the development and redevelopment of affordable housing for sioux city's income qualified residents.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
To assist seniors in maintaining optimal health, independence, and socialization, deferring admission to long term care facilities and improving their quality of life.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
To provide affordable housing for low-income families
To serve the rural electric cooperatives in south dakota, to promote the effective development of rural electrification in south dakota on a cooperative, non-profit basis.
Enhancing and strengthening our community and our regional core.
To offer leadership, involvement and support; encouraging the membership to professionally achieve their goals and serve all in the spirit of the golden rule.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding South Dakota and the most unlike its peers is Center of Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 25 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 THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS ZOO & AQUARIUM ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds DAKOTABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE MISSION OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds STOCKYARDS PLAZA INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOUSE OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
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: 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
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 GreatLife Cares Foundation 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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