· Private foundation
Sfs Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+9 grants · $6.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIOUX FALLS ZOO & AQUARIUM | $2,000,400 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY | $1,120,000 |
| SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,016,296 |
| SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION | $835,000 |
| SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $503,000 |
| AVERA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $440,000 |
| SIOUX FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $378,700 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION SOUTHWEST CHAPTER | $330,000 |
| SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $315,000 |
| SOUTHEAST TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $235,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION | $225,621 |
| SIOUX FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $200,000 |
| MIDWEST HONOR FLIGHT | $175,000 |
| LIFESCAPE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Sfs Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in SD; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M 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
- SHSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +44%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA4× · 2022–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +52%
- MHMIDWEST HONOR FLIGHT - IA & SD3× · 2023–2025 · $535k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- FMFURNITURE MISSION OF SOUTH DAKOTAone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -59% · 34% of their budget
- MJMARY JO WEGNER ARBORETUMone grant, 2022 · $83k
- SDSOUTH DAKOTA PARKINSON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +149%
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.
Enhancing excellence by cultivating generosity and treasuring the loyalty of all we serve.
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.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Downtown Sioux Falls boldly leads the downtown community by championing diverse experiences, economic growth, and a healthy environment.
Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.
Sd voices for peace provides five programming areas to assist vulnerable communities access services throughout the state: legal services, multilingual outreach, training and education, advocacy and civic engagement and rapid response.
The university of sioux falls, a christian university in the liberal arts tradition, educates students in the humanities, sciences and professions. the traditional motto of the university is culture for service, that is, we seek to foster…
Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.
Foster loyalty and fellowship among South Dakota State University Alumni, Faculty, Students and Former Students.
Carry out charitable & educational purposes of sdga
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Toy Lending Library of Sd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 25 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 SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS ZOO & AQUARIUM ↗
- Who funds SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE MISSION OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST HONOR FLIGHT - IA & SD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Toy Lending Library of SD ↗
- Who funds MCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIFESCAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LEVITT SHELL SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds ROCK RANCH ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA PARKINSON FOUNDATION ↗
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: Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · South Dakota Community Foundation · Avera Health · Sanford Group Return · Midcontinent Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Graco Foundation · The James and Eloise Elmen Foundation · Sioux Steel Company Foundation · Levo Cares Foundation · Sioux Empire United Way Inc · Sheldon F Reese 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 Sfs 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.
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.