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Oahe Foundation
To provide a foundation, which may be used by others as a conduit for the purpose of channeling contributions made by the public at large through this 501(c)(3) foundation, which funds will be ultimately used for charitable, educational or scientific purpose, in the name of and on behalf of the third party donor.
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 38 grants below total $2,365,664 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,814,163 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $448,499 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 $10k12 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $312k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $853k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OAHE YMCA | $1,099,465 |
| PIERRE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURC | $138,605 |
| SD DISCOVERY CENTER | $100,000 |
| MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $100,000 |
| PIERRE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $96,550 |
| CITY OF PIERRE | $64,676 |
| CENTRAL SD CHILD ASSESSMENT CENTER | $63,588 |
| GROWING UP TOGETHER | $63,588 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPITAL AREA | $60,500 |
| CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY | $58,000 |
| AVERA ST MARY'S FOUNDATION | $57,341 |
| AVERA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LUTHERAN MEMORIAL CHURCH | $39,823 |
| PIERRE PLAYERS INC | $35,000 |
| PIERREFT PIERRE HUMANE SOCIETY | $34,911 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
44 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k 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
- OYOAHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +116% · 50% of their budget
- CACAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +39%
- PSPIERRE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 32-2 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $489k · revenue +729% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
- SDSOUTH DAKOTA PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +89%
- OIOAHE INCone grant, 2019 · $48k · revenue -106%
- CICITIZENS INVOLVEMENT COUNCILone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +9%
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.
Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.
Quality care with a personal touch, close to home.
Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.
Avera is a health ministry rooted in the Gospel. Our mission is to make a positive impact in the lives and health of persons and communities by providing quality services guided by Christian values.
Enhancing excellence by cultivating generosity and treasuring the loyalty of all we serve.
The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.
Avera is a health ministry rooted in the Gospel. Our mission is to make a positive impact in the lives and health of persons and communities by providing quality services guided by Christian values.
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…
Foster healthy communities by promoting and supporting programs that increase access to affordable high quality care for all.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pierre School District No 32-2 Educational Foundation. 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 44 years old; the field is 22. 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.
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 62 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 OAHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC ↗
- Who funds PIERRE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 32-2 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY & YOUTH INVOLVED INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST #8 ↗
- Who funds PIERRE-FORT PIERRE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL CITY CAMPUS INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTRYSIDE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds South Dakota Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds Avera Health ↗
- Who funds SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds PIERRE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds RAPID CITY CLUB FOR BOYS INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OAHE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GROWING UP TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds Avera St Mary's ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds WESTHILLS VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
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: South Dakota Community Foundation · Avera Health · Delta Dental of South Dakota · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Black Hills Area Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Capital Area United Way · Sanford Group Return · Midcontinent Foundation · Sioux Steel Company Foundation · Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee · Sheldon F Reese 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 Oahe 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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