· Public charity
Mary Chilton DAR Foundation
To Promote and Perpetuate the advancement of American Patriotism, Education and Citizenship.
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 10 grants below total $139,850 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $158,966 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,116 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 $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Promise Future Funds | $50,000 |
| Sioux Falls Community Learnin | $15,000 |
| South Dakota Historical Soc | $13,000 |
| South Dakota Tractor Museum | $12,500 |
| Menno Historical Society | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Sioux Falls Public Schools Ed | $8,000 |
| Pathways Literacy Center | $6,900 |
| Dells Rapids Society for Hist | $6,500 |
| Interior Historical Fund | $5,450 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +71% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DODaughters of the American Revolution Mary Chilton Chapter2× · 2017–2018 · $75k · revenue +49% · 68% of their budget
- SFSIOUX FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +727%
- AUAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- SDSouth Dakota State Theatreone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SFSioux Falls Area Community Foone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Dakota county historical society exists to preserve, interpret and promote the history of dakota county, minnesota.
The state historical society of north dakota foundation exists to secure private funding to support the state historical society of north dakota in identifying, preserving, interpreting, and promoting north dakota history.
Operation of Historical Museum for the collection, preparation and display of artifacts from Dawson County Nebraska and disseminate and educate the public about Dawson County and it's historical treasures.
Preservation of historical items of south dakota.
To preserve and celebrate the rich story of northwest iowa's dutch immigrant history and culture.
Dchv connects modern generations to the past rural life & agricultural heritage in dakota cty through living history interpretation, education, & collection, preservation, & exhibition of information, objects & buildings.
To preserve the early history of fall river county south dakota
Education and preservation of western heritage
To promote the conservation of natural resources in the state of north dakota
Sioux city public museum support
Museum/educational center
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota and the most unlike its peers is Rural Ethnic Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 9% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 52 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.
- Who funds Daughters of the American Revolution Mary Chilton Chapter ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US VFW-SD ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST HONOR FLIGHT - IA & SD ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds MENNO HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DAKOTALAND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA AIR AND SPACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rural Ethnic Institute ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS STATE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
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: Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · South Dakota Community Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Bnsf Railway Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mary Chilton DAR Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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