· Private foundation
Greg and Pam Sands Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMILY'S HOPE INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% 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 +52% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SHSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2023 · $135k · revenue +385%
- SDSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2023 · $45k · revenue +52%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- AFAVERA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $105k
- AHAVERA HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $105k
- CCCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR EASTERN SDone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
To get people with addiction and their loved ones well.
The mission of face it together sioux falls is to get drug and alcohol addiction sufferers well.
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Empowering individuals to seek care and providing a link to services that will help them thrive as they address the challenges of living with mental health and/or substance use disorder issues.
Corporate Care strategizes with workplace leadership to foster an environment of mutual care and service both inside and outside the workplace. Corporate Care provides short-term, on-site pastoral counseling to employees who wish to use…
We exist to strengthen working-poor families so they can experience the fullness of god's love through jesus christ. with your help we can make a difference.
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Downtown Sioux Falls boldly leads the downtown community by championing diverse experiences, economic growth, and a healthy environment.
St. Anne's Guest Home, a Catholic Health Care Facility, embraces residents of all faiths, genders, and races in creating an environment of living the gospel message through providing services, regardless of financial status, to maintain…
Sanford health is committed to the healthcare needs of communities throughout the upper midwest. sanford health provides a full range of primary and specialty healthcare services and strives to be the premier rural health system in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dow Rummel Village and the most unlike its peers is Wegner Arboretum Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 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. 25 of the 50 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 SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds GreatLife Cares Foundation ↗
- Who funds FACE IT TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VISITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Emilys Hope ↗
- Who funds STOCKYARDS PLAZA INC ↗
- Who funds MCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE MISSION OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds DOW RUMMEL VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOUSE OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds Wegner Arboretum Society ↗
- Who funds Helping Kids Round First ↗
- Who funds PASSAGES WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Washed Clean Addiction & Recovery Ministries ↗
- Who funds Hurdle Life Coach Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE DAKOTAS ↗
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 · South Dakota Community Foundation · Avera Health · Sanford Group Return · Midcontinent Foundation · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · The Robert and Rita Elmen Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Larson Foundation · The James and Eloise Elmen Foundation · Tenfold Foundation Inc
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 Greg and Pam Sands 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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