How much does Oahe Foundation give?

Oahe Foundation reported 39 itemized grants totaling $1,636,527, out of $2,028,997 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Oahe Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (30%), Religion (25%), Health (12%).

Who are Oahe Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oahe Young Men's Christian Association ($4.0M), Pierre First United Methodist Churc ($1.8M), Capital Area Counseling Serviceinc ($1.0M).

Does Oahe Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Oahe Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, Avera Health, Delta Dental of South Dakota.

Where is Oahe Foundation based?

Oahe Foundation is based in SD.

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South Dakota · Community foundation

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 39
Itemized grants FY2025: 37
Organizations funded FY2024: 14%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.6M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,807
Largest grant, FY2025: $501,535
Organizations funded a year: 25 to 37; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $28M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Oahe Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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	37	$1.4M	11%
FY2024	37	$2.4M	14%
FY2023	36	$1.7M	8%
FY2022	37	$1.3M	14%
FY2021	34	$2.5M	18%
FY2020	32	$1.2M	16%
FY2019	27	$1.2M	19%
FY2018	25	$1.8M	16%

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What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$4.0MReligion$3.4MHealth$1.7MEducation$940kPhilanthropy$699kHuman Services$594kPublic Benefit$424kRecreation & Sports$397kOther$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
Oahe Young Men's Christian Association	$3,996,000	6	50%
Pierre First United Methodist Churc	$1,754,072	9	n/a
Capital Area Counseling Serviceinc	$1,010,262	8	4%
Avera St Mary's Foundation	$656,257	9	n/a
Dakotas United Methodist Foundation	$592,000	5	n/a
Pierre School District No 32-2 Educational Foundation	$573,000	9	47%
Capital Area United Way	$464,700	9	12%
City of Pierre	$419,676	7	n/a
Lutheran Memorial Church	$367,522	9	n/a
American Legion Post #8	$333,194	9	15%

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All grantees of Oahe Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Oahe Young Men's Christian Association	$3,996,000	6	50%
Pierre First United Methodist Churc	$1,754,072	9	n/a
Capital Area Counseling Serviceinc	$1,010,262	8	4%
Avera St Mary's Foundation	$656,257	9	n/a
Dakotas United Methodist Foundation	$592,000	5	n/a
Pierre School District No 32-2 Educational Foundation	$573,000	9	47%
Capital Area United Way	$464,700	9	12%
City of Pierre	$419,676	7	n/a
Lutheran Memorial Church	$367,522	9	n/a
American Legion Post #8	$333,194	9	15%
Community & Youth Involved Inc	$310,744	6	24%
Pierre-Fort Pierre Area Humane Society	$282,973	8	27%
Onida Volunteer Fire Dept	$279,313	3	n/a
Capital City Campus Inc	$274,511	8	18%
Countryside Hospice Inc	$272,651	8	4%
South Dakota Discovery Center	$235,000	6	13%
Missouri Shores Domestic Violence Center	$210,000	3	12%
Avera Health	$183,438	4	0%
Ss Peter & Paul Rectory	$151,536	3	n/a
Sanford Health Foundation	$150,000	5	0%
Youth & Family Services Inc	$149,027	9	0%
University of South Dakota Foundation	$126,366	8	0%
Girl Scouts - Dakota Horizons	$124,820	9	0%
Rotary International	$114,667	7	n/a
South Dakota Dental Foundation	$81,000	5	16%
Cornerstone Rescue Mission	$80,861	9	0%
The Salvation Army	$80,861	9	n/a
First Congregational Church	$80,861	9	n/a
Working Against Violence Inc	$80,860	9	1%
Rapid City Club for Boys Inc	$80,860	9	0%
Kennebec Lutheran Church	$80,000	2	n/a
Oahe Hockey Association	$80,000	3	9%
Pierre Players Inc	$76,500	2	39%
Children's Home Society of South Dakota	$72,693	8	0%
Westhills Village Foundation	$72,692	8	4%
Associated General Contractors of South Dakota Inc	$71,862	5	2%
Growing Up Together	$63,588	1	18%
Avera St Mary's	$63,588	1	0%
South Dakota Parks and Wildlife Foundation	$60,000	1	n/a
South Dakota Dental Association	$58,579	5	3%
Oahe Inc	$48,339	1	2%
Good Shepherd Clinic Inc	$34,800	3	17%
Pierre Board of Education	$32,000	4	n/a
Colorado School of Mines Foundation	$30,000	3	0%
Citizens Involvement Council	$25,000	1	8%
Pierre Concerts Association	$21,554	2	n/a
Abbott House Foundation Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Oahe Habitat for Humanity Inc	$20,000	2	n/a
Kadoka Nursing Home Association	$20,000	1	1%
Sully Post 79 Baseball	$20,000	1	n/a
Distinguished Flying Cross Society	$19,000	2	6%
South Dakota State University	$18,000	3	n/a
SDSM&T Center for Alumni Relations & Advancement	$17,800	1	0%
Future Fort Pierre	$16,875	1	16%
St Francis Mission	$12,756	2	0%
Lake Area Technical College Foundat	$12,300	1	n/a
American Friends of the School of St Jude Tanzania Inc	$11,360	2	1%
Lifescape Foundation	$11,000	1	0%
American Legion Hutchison Post 6	$9,017	1	n/a
Delta Dental of South Dakota Foundation	$9,000	1	0%
Children's Home Foundation	$8,168	1	0%
Monument Health Rapid City Hospital Inc	$8,000	1	0%
South Dakota Air and Space Foundation Inc	$8,000	1	n/a
American Legion Sully Post 79	$6,500	1	n/a

Oahe Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 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 43.

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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.

South Dakota Community FoundationSD64.5× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Oahe Foundation

How much does Oahe Foundation give?: Oahe Foundation reported 39 itemized grants totaling $1,636,527, out of $2,028,997 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Oahe Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (30%), Religion (25%), Health (12%).
Who are Oahe Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oahe Young Men's Christian Association ($4.0M), Pierre First United Methodist Churc ($1.8M), Capital Area Counseling Serviceinc ($1.0M).
Does Oahe Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Oahe Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, Avera Health, Delta Dental of South Dakota.
Where is Oahe Foundation based?: Oahe Foundation is based in SD.