How much does Grow South Dakota give?

Grow South Dakota reported 3 itemized grants totaling $41,597, out of $738,887 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Grow South Dakota fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (46%), Community Improvement (31%), Housing & Shelter (15%).

Who are Grow South Dakota's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Inter-Lakes Community Action Partnership Inc ($187k), Western South Dakota Community Action Agency ($97k), Communityworks North Dakota ($25k).

Does Grow South Dakota fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Grow South Dakota?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.

Where is Grow South Dakota based?

Grow South Dakota is based in SD.

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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.

$739k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 3
Itemized grants FY2025: 3
Organizations funded FY2024: 67%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $42k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $12,401
Largest grant, FY2025: $21,375
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 4; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $75M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Grow South Dakota funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	3	$42k	33%
FY2024	3	$29k	67%
FY2023	1	$12k	100%
FY2022	2	$25k	0%
FY2021	3	$39k	0%
FY2020	3	$68k	33%
FY2019	3	$75k	33%
FY2018	4	$74k	50%

96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$194kCommunity Improvement$132kHousing & Shelter$63kInternational$12kEmployment$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Inter-Lakes Community Action Partnership Inc	$187,196	6	0%
Western South Dakota Community Action Agency	$96,537	6	1%
Communityworks North Dakota	$25,436	2	1%
Neighborhood Housing Services of the Black Hills Inc	$23,543	2	2%
Northeast South Dakota Economic Corporation	$20,366	2	1%
The Lakota Fund Incorporated	$15,299	2	0%
Habitat for Humanity-South Dakota Inc	$13,628	1	20%
Ne South Dakota Community Action Program Inc	$12,000	1	0%
Rural Office of Community Services	$6,350	1	0%
South Dakota State University	$2,000	1	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Grow South Dakota supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

South Dakota Community FoundationSD13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Grow South Dakota?

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About Grow South Dakota

How much does Grow South Dakota give?: Grow South Dakota reported 3 itemized grants totaling $41,597, out of $738,887 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Grow South Dakota fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (46%), Community Improvement (31%), Housing & Shelter (15%).
Who are Grow South Dakota's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Inter-Lakes Community Action Partnership Inc ($187k), Western South Dakota Community Action Agency ($97k), Communityworks North Dakota ($25k).
Does Grow South Dakota fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Grow South Dakota?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
Where is Grow South Dakota based?: Grow South Dakota is based in SD.