· Public charity
Sioux Empire United Way Inc
To lead, sustain, and nurture a unified, effective response to community needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $313k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+8 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES | $818,910 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SHELTER FOR FAMILY SAFETY | $722,835 |
| ACTIVE GENERATIONS | $435,800 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE | $417,000 |
| SFSD - ACCESS FOR ALL | $350,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES - PATH | $294,000 |
| COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $279,943 |
| AVERA FOUNDATION - FAMILY WELLNESS | $264,382 |
| HELPLINE CENTER | $248,500 |
| SFSD - REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT ACADEMIC | $241,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $237,000 |
| SFSD - PRESCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES | $225,296 |
| SIOUX FALLS FAMILY YMCA | $175,690 |
| FAMILY SERVICE - COUNSELING | $166,500 |
| USD SCOTTISH RITE | $163,400 |
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 (FY17–24, $20.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA8× · 2017–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +19%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA8× · 2017–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +85%
- SCSENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES INC DBA ACTIVE GENERATIONS8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +144%
Funded once
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $289k
- EHEmilys Hopegraduatedone grant, 2023 · $61k · revenue +54%
- TCThe Carroll Institutegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue +71%
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.
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…
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.
To provide food, clothing, toys and other miscellaneous items to families in need.
Empowering individuals to seek care and providing a link to services that will help them thrive as they address the challenges of living with mental health and/or substance use disorder issues.
We exist to strengthen working-poor families so they can experience the fullness of god's love through jesus christ. with your help we can make a difference.
Downtown Sioux Falls boldly leads the downtown community by championing diverse experiences, economic growth, and a healthy environment.
To assist seniors in maintaining optimal health, independence, and socialization, deferring admission to long term care facilities and improving their quality of life.
Corporate Care strategizes with workplace leadership to foster an environment of mutual care and service both inside and outside the workplace. Corporate Care provides short-term, on-site pastoral counseling to employees who wish to use…
The lutheran social services of south dakota foundation, inc. is organized to express our heritage of christian faith and service through support of the programs and activities of lss of sd. the foundation actively seeks, receives, and…
To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…
Advocacy services for qualified individuals with disabilities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota and the most unlike its peers is Tea Area School District Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 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. 49 of the 67 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 LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES INC DBA ACTIVE GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Avera Health ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds EMBE ↗
- Who funds THE COMPASS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOUSE OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds Multi-Cultural Center of Sioux Falls ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA CASA PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds HARMONY SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds Avera McKennan ↗
- Who funds THE SIOUX FALLS MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DAKOTABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE MISSION OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HANDI RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds REACH LITERACY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE ↗
- Who funds DELTA DENTAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA YOUTH HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE ↗
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 · Avera Health · South Dakota Community Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Midcontinent Foundation · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · Levo Cares Foundation · Larson Foundation · The Robert and Rita Elmen Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Tenfold Foundation Inc
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 Sioux Empire United Way Inc 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.