How much does John T Vucurevich Foundation give?

John T Vucurevich Foundation reported 59 itemized grants totaling $5,651,547, out of $7,488,047 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does John T Vucurevich Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (4%), Philanthropy (4%), Education (2%).

Who are John T Vucurevich Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rapid City y M C A ($1.1M), Wellspring Inc ($1.1M), Catholic Social Services ($800k).

Does John T Vucurevich Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 66% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does John T Vucurevich Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as John T Vucurevich Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, Black Hills Area Community Foundation, United Way of the Black Hills.

Where is John T Vucurevich Foundation based?

John T Vucurevich Foundation is based in SD.

Foundation Dossiers

South Dakota · Private foundation

John T Vucurevich Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 59
Itemized grants FY2024: 35
Organizations funded FY2023: 66%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $5.7M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 35 to 41; FY2017 to FY2023
Total assets, FY2024: $152M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 66% of the organizations John T Vucurevich Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	40	$5.7M	88%
FY2023	35	$3.7M	66%
FY2017	41	$4.7M	n/a

90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$3.1MPhilanthropy$2.8MEducation$1.3MYouth Development$635kCrime & Legal$575kHealth$560kCommunity Improvement$349kRecreation & Sports$300kOther$0

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
Rapid City y M C A	$1,075,000	1	13%
Wellspring Inc	$1,055,000	2	33%
Catholic Social Services	$800,264	2	n/a
South Dakota State University Foundation	$501,000	2	1%
Western Dakota Vocational Technical Foundation Inc	$400,000	2	16%
Working Against Violence Inc	$380,000	1	16%
United Way of the Black Hills	$332,500	2	8%
Oneheart	$305,000	1	10%
Helpline Center Inc	$182,420	2	6%
Rapid City Club for Boys Inc	$151,000	1	4%

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All grantees of John T Vucurevich Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rapid City y M C A	$1,075,000	1	13%
Wellspring Inc	$1,055,000	2	33%
Catholic Social Services	$800,264	2	n/a
South Dakota State University Foundation	$501,000	2	1%
Western Dakota Vocational Technical Foundation Inc	$400,000	2	16%
Working Against Violence Inc	$380,000	1	16%
United Way of the Black Hills	$332,500	2	8%
Oneheart	$305,000	1	10%
Helpline Center Inc	$182,420	2	6%
Rapid City Club for Boys Inc	$151,000	1	4%
University of South Dakota Foundation	$145,000	1	1%
Boys and Girls Club of Rosebud	$130,000	2	7%
Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc	$125,500	2	4%
Volunteers of America Northern Rockies	$125,000	1	0%
Emmanuel Episcopal Church	$114,936	2	n/a
Big Brothers and Big Sisters O	$110,000	1	19%
Action for Betterment of Community	$110,000	1	18%
Thunder Valley Community Development Cor	$100,000	1	2%
SDSM&T Center for Alumni Relations & Advancement	$95,000	1	n/a
Oglala Lakota College	$80,000	2	0%
Rapid City Fine Arts Council Inc	$75,000	1	8%
Black Hills State University Foundation	$75,000	1	2%
Northern Hills Alliance for Children	$75,000	1	15%
Benchmark Data Labs	$64,240	1	26%
St Francis Mission	$50,000	1	n/a
Fork Real Community Cafe Inc	$50,000	1	8%
Elevate Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Pardeeville Bulldog Support Foundation	$50,000	1	64%
Lifeways Inc	$48,880	1	9%
Friends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting	$40,000	2	1%
Love Inc of the Black Hills	$38,000	1	7%
Literacy Council of the Black Hills	$35,000	2	n/a
Western South Dakota Senior Services Inc	$26,500	1	1%
Abbott House Inc	$25,000	1	0%
South Dakota Education Equity Coalition	$25,000	1	1%
Pennington County Drug Treatment Court Association	$20,000	1	n/a
South Dakota Symphony Orchestra	$10,000	1	0%
Ponderosa Apartments Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Good Shepherd Clinic Inc	$10,000	1	8%
Excellence in Computer Programming, Inc.	$10,000	1	2%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Youth & Family Services Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Black Hills Special Services Cooperative	$1,800	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.9M), not named here.

John T Vucurevich Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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 Community FoundationSD45.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About John T Vucurevich Foundation

How much does John T Vucurevich Foundation give?: John T Vucurevich Foundation reported 59 itemized grants totaling $5,651,547, out of $7,488,047 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does John T Vucurevich Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (4%), Philanthropy (4%), Education (2%).
Who are John T Vucurevich Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rapid City y M C A ($1.1M), Wellspring Inc ($1.1M), Catholic Social Services ($800k).
Does John T Vucurevich Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 66% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John T Vucurevich Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as John T Vucurevich Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, Black Hills Area Community Foundation, United Way of the Black Hills.
Where is John T Vucurevich Foundation based?: John T Vucurevich Foundation is based in SD.