· Public charity
Mary Chilton DAR Foundation
To Promote and Perpetuate the advancement of American Patriotism, Education and Citizenship.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $164k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Promise Future Funds | $42,787 |
| Mary Chilton DAR Chapter | $36,000 |
| Sioux Falls Public School Fou | $21,100 |
| Silver City Barracks Restorat | $15,000 |
| Augustana Lutheran Church | $15,000 |
| South Dakota Historical Soc | $13,000 |
| South Dakota Tractor Museum | $11,250 |
| SD Game Fish and Parks | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| St Wenceslaus Catholic Church | $7,500 |
| Dells Rapids Society for Hist | $6,500 |
| Siouxland Heritage Museum | $5,012 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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
- SFSioux Falls Area Community Foone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SDSouth Dakota State Theatreone grant, 2022 · $50k
- TSThe Sioux Falls History Clubone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
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.
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.
Education and preservation of western heritage
To preserve the early history of fall river county south dakota
Sioux city public museum support
To promote the conservation of natural resources in the state of north dakota
Museum/educational center
The iowa gold star military museum's mission is to honor and depict the military experience of iowa citizens in all wars, homeland defense and iowa service. the museum's purpose is to collect, preserve and exhibit materials that illustrate…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US VFW-SD ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST HONOR FLIGHT - IA & SD ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary Chilton DAR Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Chilton DAR Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Mary Chilton DAR Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Mary Chilton DAR 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.
Play a game based on Mary Chilton DAR’s filings →