· Public charity
Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc
We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $226,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $235,896 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,696 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATERTOWN DEVELOPMENT COMPANY | $100,000 |
| WATERTOWN CARES | $50,000 |
| WATERTOWN AREA UNITED WAY | $30,000 |
| HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY | $30,000 |
| NE TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WATERTOWN | $6,200 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against -29% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LALAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2018 · $2.0M · revenue +40%
- WDWATERTOWN DEVELOPMENT COMPANY8× · 2017–2025 · $405k · revenue +977%
- HSHUMAN SERVICE AGENCY9× · 2017–2025 · $233k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- JRJOY RANCH OF SOUTH DAKOTAone grant, 2022 · $4.0M · revenue -73% · 55% of their budget
- HSHUMAN SERVICE AGENCY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue -84% · 93% of their budget
- LOLUTHERANS OUTDOORS IN SOUTH DAKOTA INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -29%
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.
The mission of the Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce is to connect members with one another and provide resources that foster growth and sustainability.
To stimulate and support economic and housing development within the communities of the city of waterbury.
Rural water development in south dakota
Chamber of commerce
We strive toward providing improved access to healthcare in the watertown area, with a focus on identifying populations that are in need and the available resources. we will coordinate the compassion and caring of the people of our area to…
To provide for the betterment of watertown, wisconsin and the surrounding area and promote the enhancement of the quality of life for its people.
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
Coordinate area economic development
To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area
Continually increase the economic strength and quality of life in the region by helping members grow and prosper by supporting existing businesses, and by assisting in attracting and developing new business.
To identify and provide financing opportunities and technical assistance to emerging and existing businesses, provide community and economic development planning and implementation for the long-term sustainability and growth of the region,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Watertown Area Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Codington County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 20 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 JOY RANCH OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN DEVELOPMENT COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Watertown ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN CARES INC ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASTLEWOOD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERANS OUTDOORS IN SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA KIDNEY ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds CODINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ARROW EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLACIAL LAKES MULTICULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
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: 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
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 Prairie Lakes Health Care System 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.
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.