How much does Larson Foundation give?

Larson Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $1,427,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Larson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Human Services (13%), Youth Development (10%).

Who are Larson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Children's Home Society of South Dakota ($1.5M), Brookings Area Habitat for Humanity Inc ($1.4M), Red Cloud Indian School ($1.2M).

Does Larson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Larson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

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

Which funders back the same organizations as Larson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, Midcontinent Foundation, Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc.

Where is Larson Foundation based?

Larson Foundation is based in SD.

Foundation Dossiers

South Dakota · Private foundation

Larson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 29
Grants FY2025: 34
Organizations funded FY2024: 26%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $260,000
Organizations funded a year: 22 to 43; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $23M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Larson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	29	$1.4M	14%
FY2024	34	$2.3M	26%
FY2023	30	$2.1M	50%
FY2022	22	$14M	41%
FY2021	43	$1.9M	33%
FY2020	31	$1.4M	48%
FY2019	37	$1.6M	41%
FY2018	37	$1.7M	65%

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$15MHuman Services$3.6MYouth Development$2.9MHousing & Shelter$2.0MCrime & Legal$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.1MArts & Culture$844kFood & Nutrition$381kOther$0

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
Children's Home Society of South Dakota	$1,500,000	3	2%
Brookings Area Habitat for Humanity Inc	$1,445,000	7	27%
Red Cloud Indian School	$1,171,591	7	n/a
South Dakota Network Against Family Violence and Sexual Assault Inc	$515,000	6	6%
Abbott House Inc	$470,000	4	2%
South Dakota State University Foundation	$450,000	2	0%
Boys and Girls Club of Rosebud	$450,000	6	12%
Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Plains Inc	$440,000	3	3%
Youth & Family Services Inc	$316,000	7	1%
Oneheart	$300,000	3	10%

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All grantees of Larson Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Children's Home Society of South Dakota	$1,500,000	3	2%
Brookings Area Habitat for Humanity Inc	$1,445,000	7	27%
Red Cloud Indian School	$1,171,591	7	n/a
South Dakota Network Against Family Violence and Sexual Assault Inc	$515,000	6	6%
Abbott House Inc	$470,000	4	2%
South Dakota State University Foundation	$450,000	2	0%
Boys and Girls Club of Rosebud	$450,000	6	12%
Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Plains Inc	$440,000	3	3%
Youth & Family Services Inc	$316,000	7	1%
Oneheart	$300,000	3	10%
Teach for America Inc	$300,000	3	0%
Working Against Violence Inc	$260,000	4	4%
Dakotabilities Inc	$254,800	4	1%
East-Central Court Appointed Specia	$240,959	9	20%
Brookings Area United Way	$232,014	2	12%
Wolakota Waldorf Society	$220,000	3	36%
Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc	$190,000	7	2%
Native American Community Board	$165,525	6	4%
South Dakota Humanities Council	$155,000	4	3%
Rapid City Club for Boys Inc	$155,000	5	1%
One Spirit	$140,000	3	4%
Feeding South Dakota	$125,000	3	0%
Rural America Initiatives	$125,000	2	1%
Mitchell Area Safehouse Inc	$115,896	3	10%
Safe Harbor	$100,000	1	8%
The Banquet	$100,000	4	1%
Boys and Girls Club of Watertown	$100,000	1	6%
Volunteer Service Bank	$95,000	5	44%
Wholeness Center	$94,000	9	9%
Brookings Back Pack Project	$85,000	4	13%
Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota	$85,000	2	0%
Family Visitation Center	$83,000	3	4%
Avera McKennan	$75,000	1	0%
Rapid City y M C A	$75,000	1	1%
First Peoples Fund	$70,000	4	0%
Bishop Dudley Hospitality House	$65,000	2	n/a
Handi Riders Inc	$60,000	5	7%
Harmony South Dakota Inc	$52,500	5	9%
The Black Hills Playhouse Inc	$50,000	1	4%
Aberdeen Family YMCA	$50,000	1	1%
Bishop Dudley Hospitality House	$50,000	1	n/a
Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Friends of the Brookings Public Library Inc	$49,000	1	n/a
Brookings Domestic Abuse Shelter	$45,000	2	7%
Sicangu Community Development Corporation	$40,000	1	3%
Call to Freedom	$40,000	1	n/a
Passages Women's Transitional Living Inc	$40,000	1	10%
Multi-Cultural Center of Sioux Falls	$37,500	1	n/a
Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation	$35,000	2	0%
Red Cloud Renewable	$33,500	1	1%
Community Outreach	$30,000	2	3%
Teddy Bear Den	$27,000	2	7%
Sotera Youth & Family Services Collaborative	$25,000	1	20%
Simply Smiles Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Wellspring Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society	$22,500	2	27%
Accelerate	$21,900	4	7%
Furniture Mission of South Dakota	$20,590	1	3%
United Way of Vermillion	$20,000	1	5%
Windswept Academy Inc	$20,000	1	5%
Brookings County Youth Mentoring Program	$20,000	2	10%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$20,000	2	0%
Emilys Hope	$20,000	1	3%
Oceti Sakowin Community Academy	$20,000	1	1%
Early Childhood Connections	$20,000	1	2%
South Dakota Nonprofit Network	$20,000	1	56%
Domestic Violence Network of the Lakes Region	$20,000	2	4%
Lifescape	$18,260	1	0%
Brookings School District 5-1	$16,500	3	n/a
Independent Living Choices	$15,000	1	0%
Reach Literacy	$15,000	1	7%
Pine Ridge Girls School Inc	$10,000	2	1%
Helpline Center Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Special Olympics South Dakota Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Front Porch Coalition	$10,000	1	n/a
Black Hills Works Inc	$8,629	1	0%
Children's Museum of South Dakota	$6,000	1	0%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of South Dakota Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Sanford Health Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Kelly McGeough Foundation	$5,000	1	n/a
Dakota State University Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Deubrook Backpack Project	$3,000	1	n/a
Campbell County Christian	$3,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.

Larson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 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 72.

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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 FoundationSD99.7× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · Avera Health · Sanford Group Return · Black Hills Area Community Foundation · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · United Way of the Black Hills · Sioux Empire United Way Inc · Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc

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 Larson Foundation

How much does Larson Foundation give?: Larson Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $1,427,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Larson Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Human Services (13%), Youth Development (10%).
Who are Larson Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Children's Home Society of South Dakota ($1.5M), Brookings Area Habitat for Humanity Inc ($1.4M), Red Cloud Indian School ($1.2M).
Does Larson Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Larson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Larson Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, Midcontinent Foundation, Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Larson Foundation based?: Larson Foundation is based in SD.