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Sanford Group Return

Sanford health is committed to the healthcare needs of communities throughout the upper midwest.

$47M
Granted FY2024still arriving
166
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$3.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$100MHealth$66MRecreation & Sports$48MEmployment$19MCommunity Improvement$16MInternational$4.6MFood & Nutrition$3.7MHuman Services$3.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 166 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 166 grants below total $25,885,904 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $47,489,473 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,603,569 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $175k
  • $10k–50k91 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $3.5M
  • $250k+16 grants · $20M
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$4.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA (USD)$3,604,552
CONCORDIA COLLEGE$3,306,000
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY (NDSU)$2,346,667
AUGUSTANA$2,166,750
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY (SDSU) FOUNDATION$2,125,000
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA$1,432,412
SD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,250,000
UND ALUMNI FOUNDATION$1,036,571
UNIVERSITY OF MARY$647,249
SOUTH DAKOTA PARTNERS IN EDUCATION$616,922
FARGO PARK DISTRICT$445,288
SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT 49-5$310,000
SIOUX EMPIRE TRIAGE CENTER$300,000
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$250,000
FORWARD SIOUX FALLS$250,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $78k → 8%YOUTH VILLAGESJANIES FUND: $205k → 17%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE: $51k → 15%JOY RANCH OF SD: $25k → 11%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $54k → 8%GREAT NORTH POLE: $29k → 12%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $28k → 8%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $28k → 8%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $28k → 8%STEM FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $500k → 17%Stem for Life Foundation: $500k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $33k → 5%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 5%SIOUX FALLS HOPE COALITION: $25k → 5%SIOUX FALLS HOPE COALITION: $25k → 5%SIOUX FALLS HOPE COALITION: $25k → 5%ACTIVE GENERATIONS: $31k → 9%ACTIVE GENERATIONS SIOUX FALLS: $30k → 9%FIRSTLINK: $45k → 12%FIRSTLINK: $25k → 12%FIRSTLINK: $25k → 12%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY: $33k → 9%YMCA OF CASS & CLAY COUNTIES: $36k → 12%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $140k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITY: $107k → 9%YMCA SIOUX FALLS REGION: $78k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $64k → 9%SIOUX FALLS YMCA: $61k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SD: $56k → 9%SIOUX FALLS YMCA: $55k → 9%YMCA SIOUX FALLS REGION: $55k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (YMCA): $55k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $45k → 9%Ronald Mcdonald House: $43k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $41k → 9%YMCA SIOUX FALLS REGION: $36k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITY: $35k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SD: $35k → 9%YMCA Sioux Falls Region: $35k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 9%DOW RUMMEL: $25k → 9%DOW RUMMEL: $25k → 9%DOW RUMMEL: $25k → 9%Dow Rummel: $25k → 9%DOW RUMMEL: $25k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITY: $25k → 9%CALL TO FREEDOM INC: $23k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

ME
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
SD
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$236M · 358 repeat orgs$33M to everyone else

358 repeat relationships — 139 still active in FY2024, 219 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

358
191

Total granted

$236M
$32M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+30%

Still filing today

71%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • AU
    AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $26M · revenue +79%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +36%
  • CC
    CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • SH
    SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6.6M · revenue +385%
  • DO
    DEPT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6.0M
  • DV
    DURHAM VETERANS AFFAIRS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
    one grant, 2021 · $5.0M

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.

1
Sd Association of Healthcare Organizations

Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.

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2
Credit Union Association of the Dakotas

The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.

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3
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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4
Northeast South Dakota Area Health Education Center

To create and strengthen partnerships that cultivate a robust health workforce for rural and underserved communities in south dakota.

Education
5
Catholic Charities North Dakota

Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.

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6
South Dakota Retailers Association

Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.

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7
Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…

Human Services
8
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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9
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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10
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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11
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
12
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of South Dakota & Montana and the most unlike its peers is Secured My School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community College Foundatio…Christian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support ServicesSchool District FoundationsMilitary Veterans SupportYouth Sports ProgramsUnited Way AffiliatesDomestic Violence ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Addiction Recovery ServicesLocal History MuseumsYouth Development CentersImmigrant Worker SupportAffordable Housing Developm…Faith-Based Social ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterJewish Community Organizati…Elementary Literacy TutoringLocal Food System Organizat…Affordable Housing Construc…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Ymca Youth DevelopmentSchool Parent OrganizationsCommunity Arts CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …Independent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Public Library OperationsSenior Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr11%6%5–10yr16%19%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr18%27%35–55yr23%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr11%2%5–10yr16%11%10–20yr14%10%20–35yr18%23%35–55yr23%52%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%9/578
the rest of the field
8%
508/6,394

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.

04the grantee network

428 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. 428 of the 585 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.

26
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
124
Early backer (in before they grew)
409/428
Grantees still filing
292/428
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION — $17,654,950 · OtherCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATIONMiami Children's Health System Foundation Inc — $8,000,000 · OtherMiami Children's Health System Foundation IncSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY — $7,806,665 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITYSIOUX FALLS LUTHERAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $7,003,500 · OtherSIOUX FALLS LUTHERAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCTHE SUMMIT LEAGUE — $6,417,674 · OtherTHE SUMMIT LEAGUEDEPT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS — $5,998,054 · OtherPark District of the City of Fargo — $5,682,045 · OtherNorth Dakota State University — $5,535,117 · OtherDURHAM VETERANS AFFAIRS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM — $5,000,000 · OtherSIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT #49-5 — $4,019,070 · Other+96 more — $43,375,791 · Other+96 moreAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION — $26,381,609 · EducationAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATIONUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION — $19,388,579 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATIONSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $16,535,117 · EducationSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO…North Dakota State University Foundation — $7,709,197 · EducationNorth Dakota State University Foundatio…TEAM MAKERS CLUB INC — $5,122,203 · EducationTEAM MAKERS CLUB INC+27 more — $16,692,846 · Education+27 moreSIOUX FALLS SPORTS AUTHORITY — $11,935,525 · Recreation & SportsNorthern Sun Intercollegiate Conference — $1,280,000 · Recreation & Sports+12 more — $2,923,624 · Recreation & SportsGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC — $3,125,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,142,700 · HealthSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION NORTH — $2,089,861 · HealthSioux Empire Triage Center — $1,100,000 · HealthSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST — $1,040,009 · HealthVariety Children's Hospital — $1,000,000 · HealthDakota Medical Foundation — $794,150 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC — $624,510 · HealthSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA — $615,988 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $570,500 · Health+14 more — $2,811,362 · HealthSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION — $6,608,000 · PhilanthropySOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,096,000 · PhilanthropyNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation — $750,000 · PhilanthropySIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $729,675 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BEMIDJI AREA — $512,678 · Philanthropy+7 more — $1,223,935 · PhilanthropyCURA FOUNDATION — $3,250,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC — $447,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $372,090 · Human ServicesVILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED — $224,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC — $205,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $201,550 · Human Services+4 more — $515,634 · Human ServicesSamaritan's Feet International — $4,697,608 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA — $228,475 · International
Other$116,492,866Education$91,829,551Recreation & Sports$16,139,149Health$15,914,080Philanthropy$14,920,288Human Services$5,215,274International$4,926,083

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION — $26,381,609 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION — $19,388,579 over 8y, 12% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION — $17,654,950 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $16,535,117 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetSIOUX FALLS SPORTS AUTHORITY — $11,935,525 over 8y, 48% of budgetMiami Children's Health System Foundation Inc — $8,000,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetNorth Dakota State University Foundation — $7,709,197 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION — $6,608,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE SUMMIT LEAGUE — $6,417,674 over 5y, 29% of budgetTEAM MAKERS CLUB INC — $5,122,203 over 4y, 23% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,096,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetSamaritan's Feet International — $4,697,608 over 6y, 13% of budgetCURA FOUNDATION — $3,250,000 over 4y, 69% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC — $3,125,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,142,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION — $2,105,619 over 1y, 19% of budgetSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION NORTH — $2,089,861 over 3y, 18% of budgetNorthern State University Foundation — $2,050,012 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetBismarck State College Foundation — $1,978,272 over 6y, 21% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO FOUNDATION INC — $1,690,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetUND Alumni Association and Foundation — $1,653,221 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS — $1,603,305 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC — $1,513,020 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetSouth Dakota Military Heritage Alliance — $1,500,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetNorthern Sun Intercollegiate Conference — $1,280,000 over 8y, 37% of budgetUniversity of Mary — $1,171,615 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetEdith Sanford Breast Cancer Foundation — $1,169,318 over 2y, 62% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND — $1,136,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSioux Empire Triage Center — $1,100,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA — $1,062,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST — $1,040,009 over 1y, 30% of budgetVariety Children's Hospital — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVillage Family Service Center — $910,450 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetUnited Way of Cass-Clay — $878,666 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetBISMARCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $871,386 over 7y, 42% of budgetMETHODIST MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $846,321 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetMcKenzie County Healthcare Systems Inc — $800,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetDakota Medical Foundation — $794,150 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetCreighton University — $750,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation — $750,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $729,675 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSIOUX FALLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $713,780 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetYELLOW JACKET FOUNDATION — $696,200 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $682,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $650,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC — $624,510 over 6y, 12% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA PARTNERS IN EDUCATION — $616,922 over 1y, 19% of budgetSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA — $615,988 over 1y, 57% of budget
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 AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX FALLS SPORTS AUTHORITY ↗
  • Who funds Miami Children's Health System Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SUMMIT LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds TEAM MAKERS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Samaritan's Feet International ↗
  • Who funds CURA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION NORTH ↗
  • Who funds Northern State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Bismarck State College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UND Alumni Association and Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds South Dakota Military Heritage Alliance ↗
  • Who funds Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference ↗
  • Who funds University of Mary ↗
  • Who funds Edith Sanford Breast Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND ↗

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 HealthMidcontinent Foundati…Sioux Falls Area Comm…South Dakota Communit…Blue Cross Blue Shiel…Fargo-Moorhead Area F…Dakota Medical Founda…The Barry FoundationAlex Stern Family Fou…The Mike Cindy and Ky…Offutt Family Foundat…United Way of Cass-Cl…
Avera HealthSD132.2× affinity73 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Avera Health · Midcontinent Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · South Dakota Community Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Dakota Medical Foundation · The Barry Foundation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · Offutt Family Foundation · United Way of Cass-Clay

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 Sanford Group Return 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Variety Children's Hospital — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
50report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 585 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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