How much did SAM F WELLER FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

Philanthropy$5.0MHuman Services$245kRecreation & Sports$115kEducation$68kHousing & Shelter$50kArts & Culture$38kCommunity Improvement$4kHealth$500Other$629k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

court

2021

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2022

—

2023

housingbuilding

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k8 grants · $33k
$10k–50k4 grants · $58k
$50k–250k6 grants · $475k
$250k+1 grant · $5.0M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,035,361
ABBOTT HOUSE$125,000
ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$100,000
DAKOTA DISCOVERY MUSEUM$100,000
SAFE PLACE OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA$50,000
MITCHELL AREA HOUSING INC$50,000
MITCHELL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION$50,000
MITCHELL WEEKEND SNACKPACK$17,500
MITCHELL MUSIC BOOSTERS$15,000
MITCHELL PUBLIC LIBRARY$15,000
MITCHELL SKATING & HOCKEY$10,000
CITY OF PARKSTON$5,000
MITCHELL PREHISTORIC INDIAN VILLAGE$5,000
KIPPES VETERANS PARK$5,000
FRIENDS OF SANBORN COUNTY 4-H$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

12%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$756k · 17 repeat orgs$5.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$756k

$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

-12%

Still filing today

53%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

AH
ABBOTT HOUSE
5× · 2018–2023 · $209k · revenue +111%
DW
DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
4× · 2019–2022 · $68k · revenue +4%
L
LIFEQUEST
2× · 2019–2020 · $25k · revenue +121%

Funded once

MK
MITCHELL KIWANIS CLUB
one grant, 2022 · $15k
MP
MITCHELL PICKLEBALL ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2022 · $15k
SO
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF SOUTH DAKOTA
one grant, 2019 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Mitchell College

Mitchell college is a small, private liberal arts college located along the thames river in historic new london, ct. based on its history of educating a diverse group of thinkers and learners, mitchell college provides a strength-based,…

Education

Mitchell County Economic Development Co

Promote economic development in mitchell county

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Mitchell Rodeo Foundation Inc

Education, information, and promotion of the appreciation of the sport of rodeo and other equine and livestock activities in the community and surrounding areas of mitchell, south dakota.

Animals

Mitchell County Group Home Inc

Six bed group home that maintained full occupancy for developmentally challenged adults. took residents on excursions and dining experiences to acclimate them to every day inclusion in society.

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Mitchell County Development Foundation

To promote in the economic development of local mitchell county communities

Arts & Culture

Mitchell Christian Education Associ

The organization operates a pre-k through high school educational program accredited by the state of south dakota.

Education

Mitchell County Chamber of Commerce

Chamber of commerce

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Minot State University Development

To establish, promote and stimulate voluntary financial support for the benefit of minot state university, especially in building of endowment and in addressing the long-term priorities of the university.

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Mitchell Park Youth Sports League

Recreation & Sports

Mitchell Area Safehouse Foundation

Assist with fundraising efforts of mitchell area safehouse including investments and asset management.

Housing & Shelter

Mitchell County Safe Place Inc

Mitchell county safeplace is a non-profit organization working for the elimination of domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, stalking, elder abuse, and promoting economic and social empowerment for all

Human Services

Mitchell Gun Club

Provide the community with a shooting range and sporting activities

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mitchell Area Safehouse Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village. 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 29 years old; the field is 29. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 25% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/20

the rest of the field

11/183

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.

05the grantee network

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/16

Grantees still filing

11/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$5,035,361Other$633,450Human Services$245,028Recreation & Sports$115,000Education$68,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Arts & Culture$37,500

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.

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.

Avera HealthSD24.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Avera Health · South Dakota Community Foundation · Mitchell Area Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · 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 organisation SAM F WELLER FAMILY 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MITCHELL AREA HOUSING INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 880973960 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MITCHELL AREA HOUSING INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 32% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Sam F Weller Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sam F Weller Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SAM F WELLER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sam F Weller Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

SAM F WELLER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sam F Weller Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph