South Dakota · Private foundation
Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $434k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $434k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $405k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $350k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $419k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $345k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $432k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $436k | 9% |
| FY2017 | 34 | $419k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feeding South Dakota | $220,000 | 7 | 0% |
| 7th Circuit Court Appointed Special Advocate Program | $175,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Lifeways Inc | $165,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Rural America Initiatives | $150,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Front Porch Coalition | $145,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Adult Day Center of the Black Hills | $125,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Catholic Social Services | $120,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Working Against Violence Inc | $95,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Cornerstone Rescue Mission | $77,047 | 8 | 0% |
| Allied Arts Fund Drive Inc | $75,000 | 8 | 30% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Black Hills Area Community Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · United Way of the Black Hills · Midcontinent Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Larson Foundation · Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee · American Gift Fund · John T Vucurevich Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Dakota Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc
- How much does Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc give?
- Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc reported 31 grants totaling $434,360 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Youth Development (17%), Health (9%).
- Who are Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Feeding South Dakota ($220k), 7th Circuit Court Appointed Special Advocate Program ($175k), Lifeways Inc ($165k).
- Does Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Black Hills Area Community Foundation, South Dakota Community Foundation, United Way of the Black Hills.
- Where is Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc based?
- Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc is based in SD.
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