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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $318,945, the rows itemized in this filing. The $15,985,702 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,666,757 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

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…

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2
Cozad Development Corporation

Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE

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3
Sioux Falls Development Foundation Inc

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

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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
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6
Sioux City Lewis & Clark Association
Arts & Culture
7
Greater Niles Economic Development Full Employment Corporation
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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

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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.

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11
Lake County Economic Development Corporation
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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,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota; 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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sioux Falls Development Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sioux Falls Development Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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