South Dakota · Private foundation
Sheldon F Reese Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $346k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Sheldon F Reese Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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 | 30 | $346k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $301k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $292k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $262k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $235k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $281k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $232k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $176k | 76% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Augustana University Association | $97,400 | 6 | 0% |
| Family Visitation Center | $95,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Community Outreach | $79,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Call to Freedom | $79,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Family Connection | $72,755 | 9 | 10% |
| Youth & Family Services Inc | $70,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Black Hills Playhouse Inc | $70,000 | 8 | 1% |
| South Dakota Voices for Peace | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation | $56,245 | 2 | 7% |
| St Dysmas of South Dakota | $51,680 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($495k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sheldon F Reese Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · Midcontinent Foundation · Avera Health · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · Larson Foundation · Sanford Group Return · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sioux Empire United Way Inc · Levo Cares Foundation · The Robert and Rita Elmen Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sheldon F Reese Foundation
- How much does Sheldon F Reese Foundation give?
- Sheldon F Reese Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $345,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sheldon F Reese Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Arts & Culture (16%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are Sheldon F Reese Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Augustana University Association ($97k), Family Visitation Center ($95k), Community Outreach ($80k).
- Does Sheldon F Reese Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sheldon F Reese Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sheldon F Reese Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc, South Dakota Community Foundation, Midcontinent Foundation.
- Where is Sheldon F Reese Foundation based?
- Sheldon F Reese Foundation is based in SD.
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