South Dakota · Public charity
Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc
We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.
- $236k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $226k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $462M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $226k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $130k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $3.1M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $4.2M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $139k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $136k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $220k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $262k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joy Ranch of South Dakota | $4,000,000 | 1 | 55% |
| Lake Area Technical College Alumni Association | $2,024,723 | 2 | 19% |
| Human Service Agency Foundation | $2,000,000 | 1 | 93% |
| City of Watertown | $1,007,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Watertown Development Company | $405,000 | 8 | 16% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Watertown | $398,200 | 6 | 8% |
| Watertown Area United Way Inc | $303,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Human Service Agency | $232,833 | 9 | 0% |
| Sanford | $105,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Watertown Cares Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 33% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joy Ranch of South Dakota | $4,000,000 | 1 | 55% |
| Lake Area Technical College Alumni Association | $2,024,723 | 2 | 19% |
| Human Service Agency Foundation | $2,000,000 | 1 | 93% |
| City of Watertown | $1,007,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Watertown Development Company | $405,000 | 8 | 16% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Watertown | $398,200 | 6 | 8% |
| Watertown Area United Way Inc | $303,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Human Service Agency | $232,833 | 9 | 0% |
| Sanford | $105,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Watertown Cares Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 33% |
| Lutherans Outdoors in South Dakota Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sioux Falls School District #49-5 | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ne Technical High School | $22,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Lake Area Kidney Endowment | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Codington County Historical Society | $10,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Arrow Education Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Glacial Lakes Multicultural Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
Where it is load-bearing
Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Watertown Area Community Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Engels Family Foundation · Watertown Area United Way Inc · Valley Queen Charitable Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc
- How much does Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc give?
- Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc reported 6 itemized grants totaling $226,200, out of $235,896 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (58%), Education (20%), Public Benefit (9%).
- Who are Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Joy Ranch of South Dakota ($4.0M), Lake Area Technical College Alumni Association ($2.0M), Human Service Agency Foundation ($2.0M).
- Does Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Watertown Area Community Foundation, South Dakota Community Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Where is Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc based?
- Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc is based in SD.
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