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Robert E & Patricia S Fishback Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Robert E & Patricia S Fishback Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$59kHealth$32kEducation$30kMembership Benefit$7kAnimals$5kFood & Nutrition$4kCivil Rights$3kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$12,738
Median grant
1
States reached
$494k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE BROOKINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY$12,739
FRIENDS OF SD PUBLIC BROADCASTING$12,738
MITCHELL AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $5k → 8%TEAM RUBICON: $1k → 14%STATES NEWSROOM FOR SOUTH DAKOTA: $3k → 14%CURE EPILEPSY: $1k → 14%SOUTH DAKOTA BALLET: $1k → 5%THE KELLY MCGEOUGH FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%FRIENDS OF SD PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $13k → 9%FRIENDS OF THE BROOKINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $13k → 13%MITHELL AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7k → 14%VERMILLION CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: $4k → 20%FRIENDS OF SD PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $3k → 9%BROOKINGS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $10k → 13%MITCHELL AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1k → 14%FUN & FRIENDS: $2k → 9%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%OLLI AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $2k → 9%SOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $8k → 13%FRIENDS OF SD PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $2k → 9%BROOKINGS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH & WELLNESS: $8k → 13%OLLI AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $500 → 9%SOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $8k → 13%FRIENDS OF SDPB: $2k → 9%GREENWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $7k → 13%FRIENDS OF THE BROOKINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5k → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $5k → 13%BROOKINGS FARMERS MARKET: $4k → 13%HEALING WORDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%BROOKINGS REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 13%DAKOTA RURAL ACTION-SATYAGRAHA INSTITUTE: $3k → 13%BROOKINGS BEHAVIORAL HLTH & WELLNESS: $3k → 13%BROOKINGS ARTS COUNCIL: $3k → 13%ASCENSION LUTHERAN CHURCH: $3k → 13%S T A R S: $3k → 13%BROOKINGS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH & WELLNESS: $2k → 13%BROOKINGS FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%BROOKINGS REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 13%BROOKINGS REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 13%BROOKINGS ARTS COUNCIL: $500 → 13%BROOKINGS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$84k · 8 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
22

Total granted

$84k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+18%

Still filing today

50%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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

  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL
    3× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +38%
  • BR
    Brookings Regional Humane Society Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +10%
  • BA
    Brookings Arts Council
    2× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +160%

Funded once

  • BB
    BROOKINGS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • GC
    Greenwood Cemetery Association
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -85%
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.

1
Brookings Economic Development Corporation

Dedicated to serve the Brookings Area by enhancing the economic well-being of the City of Brookings and its surrounding areas and to improve its quality of life and prosperity.

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2
South Dakota Historical Society Foundation

Preserve south dakota history

Arts & Culture
3
South Dakota Community Foundation

Receive and administer charitable gifts and permanent endowments primarily for the benefit of south dakotans. work with donors, charities, and community leaders to strengthen philanthropy in south dakota.

Philanthropy
4
South Dakota State University Alumni Association

Foster loyalty and fellowship among South Dakota State University Alumni, Faculty, Students and Former Students.

Education
5
Dakota Institute for Business and Econom

Our mission is to support the long-term growth and prosperity of South Dakota and the Northern Great Plains by providing decision-makers in all fields with insights based on the best-available data and strong analytics to inform their…

Community Improvement
6
Downtown Sioux Falls

Downtown Sioux Falls boldly leads the downtown community by championing diverse experiences, economic growth, and a healthy environment.

—
7
Research Park At Sdsu

The sdsu growth partnership, ltd is dedicated to serve the brookings area, the state of south dakota and adjacent communities and states. to accomplish this goal, a long-term development strategy has been incorporated that will, over…

Education
8
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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9
Aberdeen Development Corporation

Recruit, retain, expand, and provide entrepreneurial support to enhance economic opportunity in Aberdeen and our surrounding region.

—
10
South Dakota Biotechnology Association

A south dakota alliance dedicated to the development of biotechnology industries through expansion of bio-based research, investment, education, advocacy, funding, education, infrastructure development, and promotion.

Community Improvement
11
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
12
Dakota Rural Action

Locally based, grassroot, membership organization of rural people whose purpose is to work together to save rural communities, and to conduct non-partisan research, information and educational activities to protect the agricultural economy…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Dakota Humanities Council; the most unlike its peers is Greenwood Cemetery Association. 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

18 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. 18 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE BROOKINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $17,927 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE BROOKINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INCFRIENDS OF SD PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $17,738 · OtherFRIENDS OF SD PUBLIC BROADCASTINGBROOKINGS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $9,547 · OtherBROOKINGS BEHAVIORAL HEALTHBROOKINGS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH & WELLNESS: $9,500 · OtherBROOKINGS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH & WELLNESSBROOKINGS FARMERS MARKET: $4,000 · OtherBROOKINGS BEHAVIORAL HLTH & WELLNESS: $3,000 · OtherDAKOTA RURAL ACTION-SATYAGRAHA INSTITUTE: $3,000 · Other+8 more: $14,500 · Other+8 moreSOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNC…MITCHELL AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8,000 · Arts & CultureMITCHELL AREA HISTORICAL SOCI…Brookings County Historical Society: $4,000 · Arts & CultureBrookings County Historical S…Brookings Arts Council: $3,000 · Arts & CultureBrookings Arts CouncilSTATES NEWSROOM: $2,977 · Arts & CultureSTATES NEWSROOMFriends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthHEALING WORDS FOUNDATION: $3,164 · HealthCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $1,000 · HealthTHE KIDNEY CANCER ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · HealthSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $9,547 · EducationGreenwood Cemetery Association: $7,483 · Membership BenefitBrookings Regional Humane Society Inc: $5,000 · AnimalsVERMILLION CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: $4,000 · Community Improvement
Other$79,212Arts & Culture$40,477Health$10,164Education$9,547Membership Benefit$7,483Animals$5,000Community Improvement$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $9,547 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwood Cemetery Association: $7,483 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBrookings Regional Humane Society Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMILLION CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHEALING WORDS FOUNDATION: $3,164 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBrookings Arts Council: $3,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetSTATES NEWSROOM: $2,977 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrookings Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFriends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KIDNEY CANCER ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Dakota Ballet Co: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
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 Communit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
South Dakota Community FoundationSD15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Robert E & Patricia S Fishback Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert E & Patricia S Fishback Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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