· Public charity
Sioux Empire United Way Inc
To lead, sustain, and nurture a unified, effective response to community needs.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $316k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $3.3M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES | $818,910 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SHELTER FOR FAMILY SAFETY | $722,835 |
| ACTIVE GENERATIONS | $438,050 |
| SFSD - ACCESS FOR ALL | $350,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE | $342,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES - PATH | $294,000 |
| AVERA FOUNDATION - FAMILY WELLNESS | $264,382 |
| HELPLINE CENTER | $248,500 |
| SFSD - REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT ACADEMIC | $241,000 |
| SFSD - PRESCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM | $225,296 |
| COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $220,000 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA SIOUX COUNCIL | $212,976 |
| FAMILY SERVICE - COUNSELING | $166,500 |
| USD SCOTTISH RITE | $164,400 |
| INTERLAKES CAP - HEATLAND HOUSE | $121,000 |
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, $23.2M) 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 its grants land in higher-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 +33% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA9× · 2017–2025 · $9.2M · revenue +19%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA9× · 2017–2025 · $7.4M · revenue +85%
- SCSENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES INC DBA ACTIVE GENERATIONS9× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +115%
Funded once
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $289k
- TCThe Carroll Institutegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue +71%
- FVFAMILY VISITATION CENTERone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue -46%
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.
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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.
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How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 69 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 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 Avera Health ↗
- Who funds INTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMPASS CENTER ↗
- Who funds EMBE ↗
- 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 THE SIOUX FALLS MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DAKOTABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Avera McKennan ↗
- Who funds HARMONY SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE MISSION OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds HANDI RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds REACH LITERACY ↗
- Who funds DELTA DENTAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA YOUTH HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sioux Empire United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sioux Empire United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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