South Dakota · Private foundation
Howard Memorial Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $227k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $226,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $226,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 88
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Howard Memorial Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $227k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $201k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 88 | $170k | 89% |
| FY2020 | 68 | $148k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 73 | $151k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $144k | 62% |
| FY2017 | 52 | $104k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern State University Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Aberdeen Area Inc | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Assisting Children to Smile Inc | $5,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Aberdeen Family YMCA | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Eastern Star Home of South Dakota Incorporated | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Dacotah Prairie Museum Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 241 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
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: South Dakota Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
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About Howard Memorial Fund
- How much does Howard Memorial Fund give?
- Howard Memorial Fund reported 1 grants totaling $226,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 88 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Howard Memorial Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (92%), Arts & Culture (3%), Human Services (3%).
- Who are Howard Memorial Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northern State University Foundation ($30k), Boys & Girls Club of Aberdeen Area Inc ($10k), Assisting Children to Smile Inc ($5k).
- Does Howard Memorial Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Howard Memorial Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Howard Memorial Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.
- Where is Howard Memorial Fund based?
- Howard Memorial Fund is based in SD.
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