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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 FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $41,597, the rows itemized in this filing. The $738,887 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $697,290 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
$12,401
Median grant
3
States reached
$75M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$21,375
COMMUNITY WORKS NORTH DAKOTA$12,401
THE LAKOTA FUNDS$7,821
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Inter-Lakes Community Action Partnership: $51k → 10%Inter-Lakes Community Action Partnership: $43k → 10%Inter-Lakes Community Action Partnership: $38k → 10%Inter-Lakes Community Action Partnership: $37k → 10%INTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRA: $13k → 10%Inter-Lakes Community Action Partnership: $6k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$368k · 6 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$368k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
-16%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IC
    INTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $187k · revenue +69%
  • WS
    WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $97k · revenue +121%
  • CN
    COMMUNITYWORKS NORTH DAKOTA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY-SOUTH DAKOTA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -97%
  • NS
    NE SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -16%
  • RO
    RURAL OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +308%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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2
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
3
Neighborhood Development Enterprises Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
Dakota Resources

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…

Religion
5
Dakota Prairie Community Action Agency Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Community Action Partnership of North Dakota Inc

Serve as a catalyst for training, technical assistance, program development, evaluation, research, fundraising, and public education for community action agencies in north dakota.

Human Services
7
Mazaska Owecaso Otipi Financial Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Cozad Development Corporation

Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE

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9
Western Nebraska Housing Opportunit

Coordinate and participate in fostering, promoting, encouraging, developing, and assisting with affordable housing and economic development in scotts bluff county nebraska and surrounding areas.

Housing & Shelter
10
Rural Development Finance Corporation

Rdfc encourages economic diversification and community vitality through the generation of funding that supports sustainable asset building.

—
11
South Central Dakota Regional Council

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…

Community Improvement
12
Southeast Colorado Enterprise Development Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communityworks North Dakota; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $187,196 · Human ServicesINTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INCWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $96,537 · Community ImprovementWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTI…NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ECONOMIC CORPORATION: $20,366 · Community ImprovementNORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ECONOMIC COR…THE LAKOTA FUND INCORPORATED: $15,299 · Community ImprovementTHE LAKOTA FUND INCORPORATEDIndividual grant recipient: $21,375 · OtherIndividual gra…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY-SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $13,628 · OtherHABITAT FOR HU…NE SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $12,000 · OtherNE SOUTH DAKOT…RURAL OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6,350 · OtherRURAL OFFICE O…SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · OtherCOMMUNITYWORKS NORTH DAKOTA: $25,436 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITYWORK…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE BLACK HILLS INC: $23,543 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD …
Human Services$187,196Community Improvement$132,202Other$55,353Housing & Shelter$48,979

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $187,196 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $96,537 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITYWORKS NORTH DAKOTA: $25,436 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE BLACK HILLS INC: $23,543 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ECONOMIC CORPORATION: $20,366 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LAKOTA FUND INCORPORATED: $15,299 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY-SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $13,628 over 1y, 20% of budgetNE SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRURAL OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6,350 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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 Communit…First Interstate Banc…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Grow South Dakota funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grow South Dakota. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Grow South Dakota?

    Find your warmest path to Grow South Dakota through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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