· 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…
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| Soux Empire United Way | $11,000 |
| Junior Achievement | $11,000 |
| Furniture Mission | $9,500 |
| YMCA | $7,500 |
| Volunteer of America | $5,500 |
| SF Hope Coalition | $5,500 |
| Feeding South Dakota | $5,500 |
| Boys and Girls Club | $5,500 |
| Bishop OGorman Catholic Scho | $5,500 |
| St Francis House | $5,500 |
| Young Life | $5,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +110% since the first grant, against +44% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SESIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC3× · 2021–2024 · $32k · revenue +2%
- SFSIOUX FALLS ZOO & AQUARIUM2× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +192%
- DIDAKOTABILITIES INC2× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- TKTHE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +44%
- TRTEAM RUBICON INCone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +18%
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +129%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization GreatLife Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from GreatLife Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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