· Private foundation
Sheldon F Reese 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $292k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST DYSMAS OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $25,000 |
| HOPE COALITION | $24,000 |
| CALL TO FREEDOM INC | $24,000 |
| AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIAION | $21,400 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT SHELL SIOUX FALLS INC | $20,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS ZOO AND AQUARIUM | $20,000 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA VOICES FOR PEACE | $20,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER SIOUX FALLS | $15,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SD | $12,500 |
| YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| FAMILY CONNECTION | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUX EMPIRE | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $366k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 7 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AUAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2025 · $97k · revenue +79%
- CTCALL TO FREEDOM4× · 2019–2025 · $79k · revenue +201%
- FCFAMILY CONNECTION9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- TBTHE BANQUETone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -3%
- FOFRIENDS OF SD PUBLIC BROADCASTINGone grant, 2018 · $25k
- PFPROMISING FUTURES FUND (SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION)one grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…
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.
To assist seniors in maintaining optimal health, independence, and socialization, deferring admission to long term care facilities and improving their quality of life.
Promote economic development in the mitchell, sd area
Economic development in the watertown, south dakota area.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Providing services to those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault and offering education, advocacy, and awareness to those in lawrence, harding, and butte counties in south dakota.
Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.
The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.
To serve the rural electric cooperatives in south dakota, to promote the effective development of rural electrification in south dakota on a cooperative, non-profit basis.
Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.
How this is measured
59 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. 59 of the 91 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 AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VISITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds CALL TO FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK HILLS PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA VOICES FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REACH LITERACY ↗
- Who funds SCULPTUREWALK INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DAKOTABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE DAKOTAS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE ↗
- Who funds THE GLORY HOUSE OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LEVITT SHELL SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds HARMONY SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PAVILION MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL PREHISTORIC INDIAN VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds THE BANQUET ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS HOPE COALITION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds HOPE COALITION ↗
- Who funds CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK HILLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY 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 · 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sheldon F Reese Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheldon F Reese Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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