· Private foundation
John T Vucurevich Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 59 grants below total $5,651,547 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,488,047 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,836,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $352k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Black Hills Area Community Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| Black Hills Area Community Foundation | $500,000 |
| Behavior Management Systems dba West River Mental Health | $287,500 |
| Black Hills Special Services Cooperative | $252,000 |
| Black Hills Area Community Foundation | $250,000 |
| United Way of the Black Hills | $181,000 |
| Rapid City Club for Boys Inc | $176,000 |
| Western South Dakota Community Action | $150,000 |
| Action for the Betterment of Our Community | $150,000 |
| South Dakota Community Foundation | $150,000 |
| Literacy Council of the Black Hills | $150,000 |
| Black Hills Area Community Foundation | $150,000 |
| Volunteers of America Northern Rockies | $150,000 |
| Wellfully | $150,000 |
| South Dakota State University Foundation | $140,000 |
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 eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.
Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.
The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.
To serve the rural electric cooperatives in south dakota, to promote the effective development of rural electrification in south dakota on a cooperative, non-profit basis.
To create and strengthen partnerships that cultivate a robust health workforce for rural and underserved communities in south dakota.
The function of the north dakota university system foundation is to support, enrich, advance and improve higher education in the state of north dakota, and to assist its students, faculty and staff.
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
It is the mission of the south dakota dental association to promote the art and science of dentistry and the oral health of the public; educate the public on the benefits of quality preventative and restorative dentistry as provided by the…
A south dakota alliance dedicated to the development of biotechnology industries through expansion of bio-based research, investment, education, advocacy, funding, education, infrastructure development, and promotion.
The dctc foundation's mission is to foster student success and elevate the academic experience at dakota county technical college by securing resources through strong partnerships with employers, alumni, and the community.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Hills Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 80 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.
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- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE CENTER INC ↗
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- Who funds ACTION FOR BETTERMENT OF COMMUNITY ↗
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- Who funds SDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds WESTERN DAKOTA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENCHMARK DATA LABS ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT 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 · Black Hills Area Community Foundation · United Way of the Black Hills · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc · The Bush Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee · American Gift Fund · Midcontinent Foundation · Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation
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.
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