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Levo Cares Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$89kHuman Services$16kInternational$13kYouth Development$12kRecreation & Sports$11kPhilanthropy$10kArts & Culture$9kHealth$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k53 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$42k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIOUX FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$18,681
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE$2,500
BRANDON VALLEY BOOSTER CLUB$2,000
ST FRANCIS HOUSE$2,000
BRANDON VALLEY BAND PARENTS INC$2,000
TIGER NATION HARRISBURG ACTIVITIES FOUNDATION$1,450
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$1,415
FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA$1,405
SIOUX FALLS CATHOLIC SCHOOL CORPORATION DBA BISHOP O'GORMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL$1,275
SIOUX FALLS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY$1,020
THE GOSPEL MISSION$1,020
IRREVERENT WARRIORS SIOUX FALLS$1,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUXLAND$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE GOSPEL MISSION: $1k → 13%DAKOTABILITIES: $1k → 9%DAKOTABILITIES: $1k → 9%MARY J TREGLIA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $1k → 13%CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%CALL TO FREEDOM INC: $1k → 9%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE: $3k → 9%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE: $3k → 9%CALL TO FREEDOM INC: $1k → 9%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE: $2k → 9%FURNITURE MISSON OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $750 → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SD: $1k → 9%CENTER OF HOPE: $500 → 9%CENTER OF HOPE: $500 → 9%FURNITURE MISSION OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $500 → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SD: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$119k · 28 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
50

Total granted

$119k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+7%

Still filing today

75%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +45%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +13%
  • BV
    BRANDON VALLEY BAND PARENTS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • SF
    SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT #49-5
    one grant, 2023 · $14k
  • VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +39%
  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Siouxland Community Foundation

The siouxland community foundation is a trusted organization that connects people who care with causes that matter by providing a means to receive gifts and distribute grants in response to community needs.

Philanthropy
2
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Siouxland

Establish relationships between siouxland youth and mature, responsible screened adult volunteers.

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3
Siouxland Chamber of Commerce

Improve the quality of the siouxland area

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4
Girls Incorporated of Sioux City

Inspiring all girls to be strong, smart, and bold.

Youth Development
5
South Dakota Voices for Peace

Sd voices for peace provides five programming areas to assist vulnerable communities access services throughout the state: legal services, multilingual outreach, training and education, advocacy and civic engagement and rapid response.

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6
Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…

Human Services
7
Sioux Falls Cares Inc

To provide food, clothing, toys and other miscellaneous items to families in need.

Philanthropy
8
Sioux City Housing Trust Fund Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Siouxland Foster Closet

To follow gods commands to love, to care for children and give out of what we have by supporting children in out-of-home placement and the families caring for themjames (1:27)1 james (2:15-16)

Human Services
10
Siouxland Youth for Christ

To provide youth ministry services to youth in the siouxland area.

Youth Development
11
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
12
Downtown Sioux Falls

Downtown Sioux Falls boldly leads the downtown community by championing diverse experiences, economic growth, and a healthy environment.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Noahs Hope Animal Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 109 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
24/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT #49-5: $13,510 · OtherSIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT #49-5Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherSIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC: $4,400 · OtherAVERA FOUNDATION: $4,338 · OtherTIGER NATION HARRISBURG ACTIVITIES FOUNDATION: $4,300 · Other+78 more: $67,190 · Other+78 moreSIOUX FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $38,441 · EducationSIOUX FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS ED…BRANDON VALLEY BAND PARENTS INC: $4,500 · EducationBRANDON VALLEY BAND PARENTS I…BRANDON VALLEY BOOSTER CLUB INC: $4,062 · EducationBRANDON VALLEY BOOSTER CLUB I…+4 more: $3,040 · Education+4 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE: $6,815 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIR…CALL TO FREEDOM: $2,000 · Human ServicesCALL TO FR…DAKOTABILITIES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesDAKOTABILI…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesRONALD MCD…FURNITURE MISSION OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $1,250 · Human ServicesFURNITURE …THE GOSPEL MISSION: $1,020 · Human ServicesTHE GOSPEL…MARY J TREGLIA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $1,000 · Human ServicesMARY J TRE…CENTER OF HOPE: $1,000 · Human ServicesCENTER OF …+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $12,600 · InternationalTHE BANQUET: $2,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $1,685 · Food & NutritionLunch is Served Inc: $1,390 · Food & NutritionGreat Plains Food Bank: $1,000 · Food & NutritionSIOUX FALLS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,530 · AnimalsNoahs Hope Animal Rescue Inc: $1,000 · AnimalsUNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropySANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100 · Philanthropy
Other$98,738Education$50,043Human Services$17,085International$12,600Food & Nutrition$6,075Animals$3,530Philanthropy$3,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIOUX FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $38,441 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $12,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE: $6,815 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDON VALLEY BAND PARENTS INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC: $4,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDON VALLEY BOOSTER CLUB INC: $4,062 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST FRANCIS HOUSE OF SIOUX FALLS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUX FALLS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,530 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUX FALLS AREA CASA PROGRAM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALL TO FREEDOM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREACH LITERACY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BANQUET: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAKOTABILITIES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $1,685 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELPLINE CENTER INC: $1,510 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLunch is Served Inc: $1,390 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFURNITURE MISSION OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC: $1,240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS BOOSTERS: $1,100 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSIOUX CITY LEWIS & CLARK INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreat Plains Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUXLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER OF HOPE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln High School Booster Club: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEMBE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA PARKINSON FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIDWEST STREET MEDICINE: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRISBURG BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFACE IT TOGETHER INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Sioux Falls Area Comm…Midcontinent Foundati…South Dakota Communit…Sanford Group ReturnAvera HealthFirst Interstate Banc…Sheldon F Reese Found…The Graco FoundationSioux Steel Company F…Sioux Empire United W…The Mike Cindy and Ky…The Robert and Rita E…
Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation IncSD59.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Avera Health · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Sioux Steel Company Foundation · Sioux Empire United Way Inc · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · The Robert and Rita Elmen 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Levo Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Levo Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Levo Cares Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Levo Cares Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 109 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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