· Public charity
Homeownership Education Resource Organization
Provide homeownership education professionals with standards of learning objectives to advance homeownership through high quality, consistent education, giving south dakotans a better opportunity to achieve and maintain homeownership.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $303k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICES | $109,090 |
| CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICES | $106,170 |
| SIOUX EMPIRE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP | $87,830 |
| LAKOTA FUNDS | $35,625 |
| OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE | $30,080 |
| HOMES ARE POSSIBLE INC | $25,950 |
| TATANKA FUNDS | $22,825 |
| MAZASKA OWECASO OTIPI FINANCIAL | $16,700 |
| CHEYENNE RIVER HOUSING AUTHORITY | $11,760 |
| BLACK HILLS COMMUNITY LOAN FUND | $7,200 |
| OTHER | $6,900 |
| RUSHMORE CONSUMER CREDIT RES CTR | $5,745 |
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 (FY21–25, $307k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +97% since the first grant, against -48% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- SESIOUX EMPIRE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC5× · 2021–2025 · $314k · revenue +5% · 32% of their budget
- RCRUSHMORE CONSUMER CREDIT RESOURCE CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $307k · revenue +107%
- HAHomes are Possible Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $122k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- JVJAMES VALLEY HOUSING INCone grant, 2022 · $7k
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE BLACK HILLS INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -48%
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 housing for low-income families
To increase homeownership opportunities for south dakota's native people to build strong and healthy communities.
To provide low income housing to eligible persons in grand forks, nd.
To provide affordable home financing to native americans with low and moderate income.
To provide and be dedicated to the development, preservation and management of decent, safe and affordable housing for lower income households in north dakota.
Providing affordable housing & development opportunities to revitalize commiunities & improve the standard of living & quality of life for north dakotans. provide low interest loans for emergency home repairs, mortgage assistance, 1st…
The mission of tchfh lending, inc. is to help those underserved by the traditional mortgage industry attain homeownership through its affordable mortgage program.
Creating and improving housing to open doors for economic opportunities.
Dakota land trust (dlt) is a community-based organization established to create and preserve a permanent supply of affordable homes for households otherwise priced out of the market in the communities of western sd.
To act as the local governing board of sioux city housing trust fund by collecting and disbursing revenue for the purpose of encouraging the development and redevelopment of affordable housing for sioux city's income qualified residents.
To increase access to housing and affordable mortgage capital in native communities in the great plains region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rushmore Consumer Credit Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Homes are Possible Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 13 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 LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds SIOUX EMPIRE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds RUSHMORE CONSUMER CREDIT RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Homes are Possible Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LAKOTA FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MAZASKA OWECASO OTIPI FINANCIAL INC ↗
- Who funds Oglala Sioux Tribe Partnership for Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TATANKA FUNDS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JAMES VALLEY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK HILLS COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE BLACK HILLS INC ↗
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 · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Oweesta Corporation · Northwest Area Foundation · Wells Fargo 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 Homeownership Education Resource Organization 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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