How much does Mary Chilton DAR Foundation give?

Mary Chilton DAR Foundation reported 12 itemized grants totaling $192,149, out of $248,787 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Mary Chilton DAR Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Education (20%), Philanthropy (7%).

Who are Mary Chilton DAR Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Daughters of the American Revolution Mary Chilton Chapter ($75k), Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation ($30k), Minnehaha Century Fund ($29k).

Does Mary Chilton DAR Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Chilton DAR Foundation?

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

Where is Mary Chilton DAR Foundation based?

Mary Chilton DAR Foundation is based in SD.

Foundation Dossiers

South Dakota · Public charity

Mary Chilton DAR Foundation

To Promote and Perpetuate the advancement of American Patriotism, Education and Citizenship.

$249k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 12
Itemized grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2024: 80%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $192k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $13,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $42,787
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 13; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $7.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 80% of the organizations Mary Chilton DAR Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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	12	$192k	58%
FY2024	10	$140k	80%
FY2023	10	$150k	30%
FY2022	13	$233k	85%
FY2021	4	$80k	75%
FY2020	6	$84k	67%
FY2019	9	$127k	100%
FY2018	12	$165k	67%

90% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$456kEducation$217kPhilanthropy$79kCommunity Improvement$50kHuman Services$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kMembership Benefit$16kEnvironment$15kOther$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
Daughters of the American Revolution Mary Chilton Chapter	$75,000	2	68%
Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation	$30,000	2	16%
Minnehaha Century Fund	$29,256	2	n/a
South Dekota Tractor Museum	$23,750	2	n/a
Prairie Historical Society Inc	$23,505	2	2%
Augustana University Association	$18,000	2	0%
Augustana Lutheran Church	$15,000	1	n/a
National Music Museum (Americas Shrine to Music)	$15,000	1	1%
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the US Vfw-Sd	$15,000	1	3%
Midwest Honor Flight - Ia & Sd	$15,000	1	4%

Show all 25 grantees

All grantees of Mary Chilton DAR Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Daughters of the American Revolution Mary Chilton Chapter	$75,000	2	68%
Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation	$30,000	2	16%
Minnehaha Century Fund	$29,256	2	n/a
South Dekota Tractor Museum	$23,750	2	n/a
Prairie Historical Society Inc	$23,505	2	2%
Augustana University Association	$18,000	2	0%
Augustana Lutheran Church	$15,000	1	n/a
National Music Museum (Americas Shrine to Music)	$15,000	1	1%
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the US Vfw-Sd	$15,000	1	3%
Midwest Honor Flight - Ia & Sd	$15,000	1	4%
Siouxland Heritage Museums Alliance	$14,720	1	n/a
Children's Home Society of South Dakota	$14,000	1	0%
Sioux Valley Genealogical Society	$12,536	1	n/a
Menno Historical Society Inc	$12,500	1	25%
Dakotaland Museum	$12,120	2	8%
University of Sioux Falls	$12,000	2	0%
South Dakota Air and Space Foundation Inc	$11,500	1	24%
South Dakota Historical Society Foundation	$10,500	1	1%
Rural Ethnic Institute	$10,357	1	n/a
Sioux Falls State Theatre Company	$10,000	1	5%
South Dakota Symphony Orchestra	$10,000	1	0%
Yankton County Historical Society	$8,000	1	1%
West Central School District 49-7	$7,924	1	n/a
Mammoth Site of Hot Springs	$7,500	1	0%
Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota	$6,485	1	0%

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($848k), not named here.

Mary Chilton DAR Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 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 18.

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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.

Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation IncSD29.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Mary Chilton DAR Foundation

How much does Mary Chilton DAR Foundation give?: Mary Chilton DAR Foundation reported 12 itemized grants totaling $192,149, out of $248,787 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mary Chilton DAR Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Education (20%), Philanthropy (7%).
Who are Mary Chilton DAR Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Daughters of the American Revolution Mary Chilton Chapter ($75k), Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation ($30k), Minnehaha Century Fund ($29k).
Does Mary Chilton DAR Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Chilton DAR Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc, South Dakota Community Foundation, Sanford Group Return.
Where is Mary Chilton DAR Foundation based?: Mary Chilton DAR Foundation is based in SD.