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Sioux Falls Development Foundation Inc

To collaboratively create quality economic growth and workforce development in sioux falls.

$16M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Community Improvement$564kHuman Services$224kEducation$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $318,945 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,985,702 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,666,757 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $295k
$84,409
Median grant
1
States reached
$106M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES$139,989
HELPLINE CENTER$84,409
STARTUP SIOUX FALLS$70,821
SIOUX METRO GROWTH ALLIANCE$23,726
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SF Indy Group LLC: $454k → 12%AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 9%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $140k → 9%HELPLINE CENTER: $84k → 9%STARTUP SIOUX FALLS: $71k → 9%SIOUX METRO GROWTH ALLIANCE: $24k → 9%Minnehaha County Economic Development Association: $9k → 9%Lincoln County Economic Development Association: $7k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Iowa City Area Development Group Inc

The organization promotes, develops and advances the business community in iowa city and the surrounding area. in addition, the organization connects business and industry with federal, state and local resources to enable and stimulate…

2
Cozad Development Corporation

Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE

3
Sioux Falls Development Foundation Inc

To collaboratively create quality economic growth and workforce development in sioux falls.

4
Area Partnership for Economic Expansion

Promote and develop economic expansion in duluth and northeastern mn and northwestern wisconsin. the organization leads regional research efforts related to human resources, and emerging industries to inform business development and…

Community Improvement
5
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
6
Sioux City Lewis & Clark Association
Arts & Culture
7
Greater Niles Economic Development Full Employment Corporation
8
Eastern Plains Economic Development Corporation

To encourage, stimulate and promote economic development, expansion and diversification in southeastern montana

Community Improvement
9
Siouxland Chamber of Commerce

Improve the quality of the siouxland area

10
South Dakota Chamber of Commerce & Industry

The south dakota chamber of commerce and industry will provide leadership to ensure a vigorous and prosperous business climate for the benefits of all south dakotans.

11
Lake County Economic Development Corporation
12
Lake Agassiz Regional Development Corporation

To identify and provide financing opportunities and technical assistance to emerging and existing businesses, provide community and economic development planning and implementation for the long-term sustainability and growth of the region,…

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 Brandon Development Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
1/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SF Indy Group LLC — $453,838 · OtherSF Indy Group LLCLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA — $139,989 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTAHELPLINE CENTER INC — $84,409 · OtherHELPLINE CENTER INC+2 more — $16,000 · OtherSTARTUP SIOUX FALLS — $70,821 · Community ImprovementSTARTUP SIOUX…SIOUX METRO GROWTH ALLIANCE — $23,726 · Community ImprovementSIOUX METRO G…AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION — $10,435 · Education
Other$694,236Community Improvement$94,547Education$10,435

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA — $139,989 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHELPLINE CENTER INC — $84,409 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSTARTUP SIOUX FALLS — $70,821 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetSIOUX METRO GROWTH ALLIANCE — $23,726 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION — $10,435 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEHAHA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $8,800 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $7,200 over 1y, 5.5% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Sioux Falls Development Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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