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Mitchell Area Charitable Foundation

Assisting religious, cultural and public charitable or educational institutions within the city of mithcell and its surrounding areas.

$165k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$131kHuman Services$62kRecreation & Sports$44kPhilanthropy$44kArts & Culture$37kFood & Nutrition$27kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $89,600, the rows itemized in this filing. The $165,235 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $75,635 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $67k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAFE PLACE OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA$15,000
Individual grant recipient$11,600
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MITCHELL RODEO FOUNDATION$10,000
MITCHELL MUSIC BOOSTERS$10,000
MITCHELL AREA HOUSING INC$10,000
LOVE FEAST OF MITCHELL$9,000
MITCHELL SCHOOL DISTRICT$8,000
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE$6,000
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 (FY18–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAFE PLACE OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA: $15k → 14%MITCHELL AREA SAFEHOUSE: $11k → 14%SAFE PLACE OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA: $10k → 14%SAFE PLACE OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA: $10k → 14%LIFEQUEST INC: $6k → 14%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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$215k · 5 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -22% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$215k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-22%

Still filing today

80%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MA
    MITCHELL AREA SAFEHOUSE INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +504%
  • DW
    DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +29%
  • MF
    MITCHELL FOOD PANTRY
    2× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • MB
    MITCHELL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $24k · revenue -39%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $19k
  • CR
    COVID RELIEF FUNDUNITED WAY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Mitchell Area Development Corporation

Promote economic development in the mitchell, sd area

Community Improvement
2
Mitchell County Food Bank Corporation

Provide food assistance to low income families

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3
Mitchell Gun Club

Provide the community with a shooting range and sporting activities

—
4
Mitchell Christian Education Associ

The organization operates a pre-k through high school educational program accredited by the state of south dakota.

Education
5
Mitchell County Memorial Foundation

The mission of the mcrhc foundation is to promote the highest quality health care in mitchell county.

Philanthropy
6
Mitchell County Historical Society Inc

Operate the mitchell county museum to preserve the historical and cultural artifacts of mitchell county

Arts & Culture
7
Mitchell County Development Foundation

To promote in the economic development of local mitchell county communities

Arts & Culture
8
Mitchell County Economic Development Co Commission

Promote economic development in mitchell county

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9
Milbank Ball Diamond Association

To allow youth the opportunity to play baseball.

Recreation & Sports
10
Meadowlark Arts Council Inc

Support of the arts

Arts & Culture
11
Mitchell County Group Home Inc

Six bed group home that maintained full occupancy for developmentally challenged adults. took residents on excursions and dining experiences to acclimate them to every day inclusion in society.

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12
Mitchell Area Safehouse Foundation

Assist with fundraising efforts of mitchell area safehouse including investments and asset management.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mitchell Area Safehouse Inc; the most unlike its peers is Helping With Horsepower a Spirit Horse Center. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 23 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MITCHELL SCHOOL DISTRICT 17-2 DBA MITCHELL TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $111,000 · OtherMITCHELL SCHOOL DISTRICT 17-2 DBA MITCHELL TECHNICAL COLLEGEMITCHELL MUSIC BOOSTERS INC: $20,000 · OtherMITCHELL MUSIC BOOSTERS INCIndividual grant recipient: $19,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $11,600 · OtherCOVID RELIEF FUNDUNITED WAY: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherETHAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · OtherMitchell Corn Palace: $10,000 · OtherLOVE FEAST OF MITCHELL INC: $9,000 · OtherMITCHELL RODEO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $17,489 · Other+3 moreMITCHELL AREA SAFEHOUSE INC: $46,250 · Human ServicesMITCHELL AREA…LIFEQUEST INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesLIFEQUEST INCSOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $43,612 · PhilanthropySOUTH DAKOT…MITCHELL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $24,000 · Recreation & SportsHELPING WITH HORSEPOWER A SPIRIT HORSE CENTER: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsDAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $20,029 · EducationMITCHELL FOOD PANTRY: $17,500 · Food & NutritionMITCHELL AREA HOUSING INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $6,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$248,289Human Services$52,250Philanthropy$43,612Recreation & Sports$34,000Education$20,029Food & Nutrition$17,500Housing & Shelter$16,000

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 budgetMITCHELL AREA SAFEHOUSE INC: $46,250 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $43,612 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMITCHELL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $24,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetDAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $20,029 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMITCHELL MUSIC BOOSTERS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMITCHELL AREA HOUSING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetHELPING WITH HORSEPOWER A SPIRIT HORSE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMITCHELL RODEO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEQUEST INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAREA COMMUNITY THEATRE IN: $5,900 over 1y, 3.1% 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.

Sam F Weller Family F…South Dakota Communit…Avera HealthAmazonsmile Foundation
Sam F Weller Family FoundationSD22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sam F Weller Family Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Avera Health · Amazonsmile 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 Mitchell Area Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mitchell Area Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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

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    How do I get to Mitchell Area Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mitchell Area Charitable 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 23 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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