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Schock 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.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$62kInternational$21kYouth Development$21kEducation$17kHuman Services$16kArts & Culture$12kRecreation & Sports$5kHealth$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$644k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Youth With A Mission$9,900
Collison$4,500
Invitation Church$2,500
Life Church$2,500
Haiti Alive$2,000
Shift Garage$2,000
LifeLight$1,000
First Baptist Church$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Global Health Outreach$1,000
Sioux Falls Downtown Lions Club$800
Individual grant recipient$600
Boy Scouts$500
Mission Haiti$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Shift Garage: $4k → 9%Shift Garage: $2k → 9%Shift Garage: $2k → 9%Shift Garage: $2k → 9%New Haven Ministries: $2k → 9%New Haven Ministries: $1k → 9%Call to Freedom: $1k → 9%New Haven Ministries: $850 → 9%New Haven Ministries: $850 → 9%Compassion Child Care: $450 → 9%Compassion Child Care: $250 → 9%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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$101k · 20 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
32

Total granted

$101k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
-11%

Still filing today

55%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
Human ServicesEducationInternationalReligionHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • SF
    SIOUX FALLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $9k · revenue +60%
  • SG
    SHIFT GARAGE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +180%
  • MB
    MCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH
    3× · 2019–2022 · $9k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • PM
    Primary Ministries
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAMEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +27%
  • EC
    Embrace Church
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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
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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2
Siouxland Foster Closet

To follow gods commands to love, to care for children and give out of what we have by supporting children in out-of-home placement and the families caring for themjames (1:27)1 james (2:15-16)

Human Services
3
St Francis House of Sioux Falls

Ecumenical not-for-profit transitional living facility for the homeless in sioux falls, south dakota. purpose is to offer hospitality, fellowship and support to those who have nowhere to sleep.

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4
Child Evangelism Fellowship of South Dakota Inc

Our purpose is to evangelize boys and girls with the gospel of the lord jesus christ, disciple them in the word of god, and establish them in a bible believing church for christian living.

Youth Development
5
Servants in Fellowship

To provide charitable services to haiti

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6
Siouxland Youth for Christ

To provide youth ministry services to youth in the siouxland area.

Youth Development
7
Alliance for Transformational Ministry

Enable christian organizations worldwide to initiate and strenghten ministries that lead people to become followers of jesus and transform communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.

Religion
8
Southeastern Wisconsin Youth for Christ Inc

Southeastern wisconsin youth for christ works towards reaching young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle,…

—
9
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
10
Sioux Falls Cares Inc

To provide food, clothing, toys and other miscellaneous items to families in need.

Philanthropy
11
The Freedom Collective Inc

To glorify god by bringing hope to victims of sexual exploitation, empowering them to live free, and ultimately abolishing sex trafficking.

Housing & Shelter
12
Sai Spiritual Foundation

Help establish unity of faith and welcome all spiritual seekers of all religions; realize the Inherent Divinity within as per Sathya SaiBaba

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding South Dakota; the most unlike its peers is Adams Thermal Systems Foundation. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Primary Ministries: $12,500 · OtherPrimary MinistriesYouth With A Mission: $9,900 · OtherYouth With A MissionInvitation Church: $8,500 · OtherInvitation ChurchLifeLight: $7,500 · OtherLifeLightGlobal Health Outreach: $5,750 · OtherEmbrace Church: $5,000 · OtherSTELLA MARIS ACADEMY: $4,800 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $4,655 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,500 · OtherCollison: $4,500 · OtherLife Church: $4,000 · OtherHAITI ALIVE INC: $4,000 · Other+31 more: $34,635 · Other+31 moreSHIFT GARAGE: $8,500 · Human ServicesSHIFT GAR…NEW HAVEN: $4,550 · Human ServicesNEW HAVENCALL TO FREEDOM: $1,000 · Human ServicesCALL TO F…COMPASSION CHILD CARE: $700 · Human ServicesMISSION HAITI: $9,500 · ReligionMENTOR CORPS DBA ELAD: $2,000 · ReligionMCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH: $8,500 · HealthPoetice: $2,700 · HealthSOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSIOUX FALLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $8,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $1,000 · EducationRestoration Generation Inc: $5,700 · Crime & Legal
Other$110,240Human Services$14,750Religion$11,500Health$11,200Arts & Culture$10,000Education$9,500Crime & Legal$5,700

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMISSION HAITI: $9,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSIOUX FALLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHIFT GARAGE: $8,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRestoration Generation Inc: $5,700 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNEW HAVEN: $4,550 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHAITI ALIVE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSioux Falls Downtown Lions Club: $3,100 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetPoetice: $2,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMENTOR CORPS DBA ELAD: $2,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetEL RIAD SHRINERS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $1,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALL TO FREEDOM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUX FALLS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION CHILD CARE: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADAMS THERMAL SYSTEMS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME ↗
  • Who funds MISSION HAITI ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX FALLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SHIFT GARAGE ↗
  • Who funds MCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH ↗
  • Who funds Restoration Generation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds HAITI ALIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Sioux Falls Downtown Lions Club ↗
  • Who funds Poetice ↗
  • Who funds MENTOR CORPS DBA ELAD ↗
  • Who funds EL RIAD SHRINERS ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds CALL TO FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗

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.

Sioux Falls Area Comm…Tenfold Foundation IncSanford Group ReturnKingdom Capital FundSouth Dakota Communit…Impact Investing Char…Midcontinent Foundati…The Robert and Rita E…Sioux Steel Company F…The Graco FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…The Mike Cindy and Ky…
Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation IncSD33.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Tenfold Foundation Inc · Sanford Group Return · Kingdom Capital Fund · South Dakota Community Foundation · Impact Investing Charitable Foundation Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · The Robert and Rita Elmen Foundation · Sioux Steel Company Foundation · The Graco Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family 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 Schock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Schock Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Schock Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 55 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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