· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of ROBERT E & PATRICIA S FISHBACK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE BROOKINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $12,739 |
| FRIENDS OF SD PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $12,738 |
| MITCHELL AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 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
- SDSOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL3× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +38%
- BRBrookings Regional Humane Society Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +10%
- BABrookings Arts Council2× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +160%
Funded once
- BBBROOKINGS BEHAVIORAL HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SDSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +34%
- GCGreenwood Cemetery Associationone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -79%
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.
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.
Preserve south dakota history
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.
Foster loyalty and fellowship among South Dakota State University Alumni, Faculty, Students and Former Students.
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…
Downtown Sioux Falls boldly leads the downtown community by championing diverse experiences, economic growth, and a healthy environment.
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…
Recruit, retain, expand, and provide entrepreneurial support to enhance economic opportunity in Aberdeen and our surrounding region.
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.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Dakota Humanities Council and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 30 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 SOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Greenwood Cemetery Association ↗
- Who funds Brookings Regional Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Brookings County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds VERMILLION CULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEALING WORDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brookings Arts Council ↗
- Who funds STATES NEWSROOM ↗
- Who funds Brookings Foundation ↗
- Who funds Friends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds South Dakota Ballet Co ↗
- Who funds THE KIDNEY CANCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy ↗
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: South Dakota Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Robert E & Patricia S Fishback 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.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
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.