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Pipestone Give Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$386k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $184k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$2,550
Median grant
12
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA$124,875
CHILDREN OF THE PROMISE$28,900
MCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH$25,322
Individual grant recipient$25,000
ADAMS THERMAL FOUNDATION$25,000
COMPELLED$25,000
NEW ROOTS HAITI$25,000
FIRSTFRUITS INITIATIVE$20,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
PIPESTONE AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION$6,237
SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION$5,189
ST FRANCIS HOUSE$5,000
HOPE HAVEN INC$5,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA$5,000
ATLAS FOR LIFE$5,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTHEAST IOWA AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
SD
IA
IN
CO
AZ
NC
TX

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 20% of Pipestone Give Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 49% of the giving stays in SD; read by stated purpose it is 42% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Pipestone Give Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your field

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.

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Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…

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Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
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The Open Door

The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…

Food & Nutrition
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Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
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Hope Ministries

Hope ministries is one of the largest private providers of free meals, safe shelter, and comprehensive life-recovery support for homeless, near-homeless, and hungry men, women, and children in iowa. the mission of hope ministries is to…

Human Services
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Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
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South Metro Human Services

Radias health is a non-profit mental health & substance use disorders services organization customizing community based services through the integration of knowledge, compassion, and collaboration. we are committed to being an inclusive,…

Human Services
9
House of Charity

Feed those in need, house those experiencing homelessness, and empower individuals to achieve independence.

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Family Promise in Anoka County

Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) empowers families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.

Human Services
11
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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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Haven Inc and the most unlike its peers is Adams Thermal Systems Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Youth Sports ProgramsAffordable Housing Developm…Animal Rescue and ShelterSenior Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%49%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,530

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.

04the grantee network

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

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
4/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA — $124,875 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA+1 more — $3,000 · Food & NutritionIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPIPESTONE AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION — $6,237 · OtherPIPESTONE AMBULANCE ASSOCIA…SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $5,189 · OtherSUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER…ATLAS FOR LIFE — $5,000 · OtherATLAS FOR LIFEST FRANCIS HOUSE OF SIOUX FALLS — $5,000 · OtherST FRANCIS HOUSE OF SIOUX F…HOPE HAVEN INC — $5,000 · OtherHOPE HAVEN INCFRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY — $3,558 · Other+18 more — $25,065 · Other+18 moreCHILDREN OF THE PROMISE — $28,900 · InternationalCHILDREN OF THE PROMI…New Roots Haiti — $25,000 · InternationalNew Roots HaitiFIRSTFRUITS INITIATIVE — $20,000 · InternationalFIRSTFRUITS INITIATIV…ADAMS THERMAL SYSTEMS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyADAMS THERMAL S…COMPELLED — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOMPELLEDLot 2540 Incorporated — $3,000 · PhilanthropyLot 2540 Incorp…+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyMCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH — $25,322 · HealthSPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsHelping Kids Round First — $1,086 · Recreation & SportsDakota Alliance Soccer Club — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsSHELTER HOUSING CORPORATION D/B/A THE BRIDGE HOME — $3,000 · Housing & ShelterBELOVED ASHEVILLE — $1,030 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Food & Nutrition$127,875Other$93,049International$73,900Philanthropy$54,000Health$25,322Recreation & Sports$7,086Housing & Shelter$5,030

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA — $124,875 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE PROMISE — $28,900 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH — $25,322 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew Roots Haiti — $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetADAMS THERMAL SYSTEMS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOMPELLED — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFIRSTFRUITS INITIATIVE — $20,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetATLAS FOR LIFE — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE HAVEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY — $3,558 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIPESTONE COUNTY FOOD SHELF INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLot 2540 Incorporated — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHELTER HOUSING CORPORATION D/B/A THE BRIDGE HOME — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELPLINE CENTER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Mark Youth Enrichment — $1,145 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHelping Kids Round First — $1,086 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE — $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPENING DOORS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCK VALLEY COMM SCHOOL DIST FOUNDA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAlmost Home Kids — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDakota Alliance Soccer Club — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPipestone Performing Arts Center — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Sioux Falls Area Comm…Sanford Group ReturnEdward Jones Foundati…Community Fdn of Grea…Beacom Family Foundat…Interstates FoundationCommunity Foundation …Alliant Energy Founda…Equitable Foundation …American Endowment Fo…Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…
Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation IncSD19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Sanford Group Return · Edward Jones Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Beacom Family Foundation · Interstates Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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 Pipestone Give Inc 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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