· Private foundation
Sfs Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Sfs Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in SD; by stated purpose, 86%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sfs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sfs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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