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.

Oahe Foundation

Oahe Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$502k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 39 grants below total $1,636,527, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,028,997 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $392,470 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 · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $109k
$10k–50k19 grants · $383k
$50k–250k6 grants · $642k
$250k+1 grant · $502k

$10,807

Median grant

States reached

$28M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
OAHE YMCA	$501,535
SD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$193,004
PIERRE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURC	$189,642
PIERRE EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$84,000
CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY	$67,100
AVERA ST MARY'S FOUNDATION	$58,690
CITY OF PIERRE	$50,000
LUTHERAN MEMORIAL CHURCH	$44,963
COUNTRYSIDE HOSPICE INC	$39,936
CAPITAL CITY CAMPUS	$39,024
PIERREFT PIERRE HUMANE SOCIETY	$37,178
POST 8 BASEBALL	$36,186
SD DISCOVERY CENTER	$35,000
FUTURE FORT PIERRE	$16,875
OAHE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION	$15,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $4.2M) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$14M · 47 repeat orgs$407k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14M

$359k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+15%

Still filing today

70%

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

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OAHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
6× · 2017–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +116% · 50% of their budget
CA
CAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +39%
PS
PIERRE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 32-2 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $573k · revenue +729% · 47% of their budget

Funded once

GU
GROWING UP TOGETHER
one grant, 2024 · $64k · revenue -33%
AS
Avera St Mary's
one grant, 2024 · $64k · revenue +10%
SD
SOUTH DAKOTA PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +89%

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.

Sd Association of Healthcare Organizations

Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.

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Coteau Des Prairies Hospital

Quality care with a personal touch, close to home.

Health

South Dakota State University Foundation

Enhancing excellence by cultivating generosity and treasuring the loyalty of all we serve.

Education

Madison Community Hospital

Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.

Health

Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

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…

Human Services

Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition

Credit Union Association of the Dakotas

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.

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Sacred Heart Health 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.

Health

Avera at Home

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.

Health

South Dakota Voices for Peace

Sd voices for peace provides five programming areas to assist vulnerable communities access services throughout the state: legal services, multilingual outreach, training and education, advocacy and civic engagement and rapid response.

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South Dakota State Medical Association

The south dakota state medical association is devoted to promoting the art and science of medicine; protecting and improving the health of the public; and providing leadership and advocacy in the filed of quality healthcare.

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North Dakota Hospital Association

To advance the health status of persons served by the membership.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 67 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/50

Grantees still filing

36/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$6,778,947Human Services$4,306,861Health$1,484,676Philanthropy$1,116,204Education$777,166Animals$517,973Youth Development$205,680

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Oahe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oahe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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