· Public charity
Grow South Dakota
GROW SOUTH DAKOTA is a nonprofit corporation whose primary objective is to promote and foster economic growth, housing development, and educational opportunities in distressed communities and underserved markets in south dakota.
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.
The 3 grants below total $41,597 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $738,887 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $697,290 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $21,375 |
| COMMUNITY WORKS NORTH DAKOTA | $12,401 |
| THE LAKOTA FUNDS | $7,821 |
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 (FY17–22, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +5% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- ICINTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC6× · 2017–2022 · $187k · revenue +69%
- WSWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY6× · 2017–2022 · $97k · revenue +121%
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE BLACK HILLS INC2× · 2018–2024 · $24k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY-SOUTH DAKOTA INCone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -97%
- NSNE SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INCone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -16%
- RORURAL OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +308%
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 provide affordable rental housing to low-income families and to assist in the development of facilities that benefit the public in the state of north dakota.
Dakota resources in connecting capital and capacity to empower rural communities. we believe that leadership capacity and access to capital are key to creating the future of rural. our products and programs are aimed at supporting rural…
Dakota prairie community action agency, inc was formed to provide advocacy, programs, and services to address the issues of poverty and improve economic self-sufficiency for all households in a six-county area in north dakota. areas of…
Serve as a catalyst for training, technical assistance, program development, evaluation, research, fundraising, and public education for community action agencies in north dakota.
Creates homeownership opportunities for the members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe living on, or in the communities adjacent to, the Pine Ridge Reservation. Mazaska is a Native community development financial institution that provides housing…
Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE
Coordinate and participate in fostering, promoting, encouraging, developing, and assisting with affordable housing and economic development in scotts bluff county nebraska and surrounding areas.
Rdfc encourages economic diversification and community vitality through the generation of funding that supports sustainable asset building.
The council provides planning and development services, techincal assistance, information coordination and prodram administration to facilitate the needs of local units of government in the area of community development, economic…
To provide economic assistance to individuals and businesses in southeast colorado that do not qualify for traditional financing. loans are primarly made to new, start-up businesses or businesses that are having difficulty with traditional…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communityworks North Dakota and the most unlike its peers is Rural Office of Community Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 INTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITYWORKS NORTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE BLACK HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ECONOMIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAKOTA FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY-SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds NE SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
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: South Dakota Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem 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 Grow South Dakota 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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