· Private foundation
Renee Rebecca and Richard Elmen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIOUX FALLS HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,100 |
| HUMANE SOC FOR SW WASHIGTON | $5,000 |
| OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BROOKINGS REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| SIOUX FALLS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| DOVE LEWIS ER &ICU ANIMAL HOSP | $2,700 |
| AUGUSTANA COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| SO DAK SPORTSMEN AGAINST HUNGER | $2,000 |
| THE STUTTERING FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SIOUX FALLS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $2,000 |
| PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS | $500 |
| COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW | $500 |
| SANFORD HEALTH FDN | $300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SFSIOUX FALLS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY7× · 2018–2024 · $37k · revenue +89%
- AUAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +79%
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY3× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- YYMCAone grant, 2017 · $2k
- DLDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +77%
- TPTURNING POINT USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +304%
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.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
The university of sioux falls, a christian university in the liberal arts tradition, educates students in the humanities, sciences and professions. the traditional motto of the university is culture for service, that is, we seek to foster…
The humane society of utah is dedicated to the elimination of pain, fear, and suffering in all animals. in 2024, hsu provided over 13,000 affordable spay/neuter surgeries, administered 121,000 vaccinations, adopted 6,363 pets into loving…
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
To enhance the quality of life for the people of the siouxland region by obtaining funds in support of the health-care mission of st. luke's health system.
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifescape Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Stuttering Foundation of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 46 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 SIOUX FALLS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Stuttering Foundation of America ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA SPORTSMEN AGAINST HUNGER ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN ↗
- Who funds Brookings Regional Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VISITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFESCAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BANQUET ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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: Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · Avera Health · Sanford Group Return · Midcontinent Foundation · The Graco Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Renee Rebecca and Richard Elmen Foundation 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.
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