South Dakota · Private foundation
Sfs Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $8.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $225,621
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Sfs Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $6.5M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $4.7M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $3.3M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $1.6M | 80% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $158k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sioux Falls School District #49-5 | $5,000,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sioux Falls Zoo & Aquarium | $2,000,400 | 1 | 12% |
| Sanford Health Foundation | $1,515,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Children's Home Society of South Dakota | $1,360,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Furniture Mission of South Dakota | $1,000,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Midwest Honor Flight - Ia & Sd | $535,000 | 3 | 13% |
| University of South Dakota Foundation | $480,604 | 4 | 0% |
| Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation | $378,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Toy Lending Library of SD | $229,000 | 3 | 79% |
| McCrossan Boys Ranch | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sioux Falls School District #49-5 | $5,000,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sioux Falls Zoo & Aquarium | $2,000,400 | 1 | 12% |
| Sanford Health Foundation | $1,515,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Children's Home Society of South Dakota | $1,360,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Furniture Mission of South Dakota | $1,000,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Midwest Honor Flight - Ia & Sd | $535,000 | 3 | 13% |
| University of South Dakota Foundation | $480,604 | 4 | 0% |
| Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation | $378,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Toy Lending Library of SD | $229,000 | 3 | 79% |
| McCrossan Boys Ranch | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Augustana University Association | $140,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lifescape Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Levitt Shell Sioux Falls | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Rock Ranch | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| South Dakota Parkinson Foundation | $18,000 | 1 | 18% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sfs Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Sfs Foundation
- How much does Sfs Foundation give?
- Sfs Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $8,418,517 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Sfs Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Health (19%), Philanthropy (16%).
- Who are Sfs Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Sioux Falls School District #49-5 ($5.0M), Sioux Falls Zoo & Aquarium ($2.0M), Sanford Health Foundation ($1.5M).
- Does Sfs Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sfs Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sfs Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc, South Dakota Community Foundation, Avera Health.
- Where is Sfs Foundation based?
- Sfs Foundation is based in SD.
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