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Sioux Steel Company Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF LEVITT SHELL SIOUX FALLS INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,600 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY | $2,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $1,600 |
| CAPITAL AREA COUNSELING | $1,250 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROSEBUD | $1,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION MNNDSD CHAPTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| UPPER MIDWEST ORGAN PROCUREMENT | $1,000 |
| HELPLINE CENTER INC | $750 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR EASTERN SD | $500 |
| LIVE LIKE CAT FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY17–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
45 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CACAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC6× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +37%
- FSFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +28%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- SFSIOUX FALLS ZOO & AQUARIUMgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +50%
- FRFARM RESCUE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +59%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
The siouxland community foundation is a trusted organization that connects people who care with causes that matter by providing a means to receive gifts and distribute grants in response to community needs.
Receive and administer charitable gifts and permanent endowments primarily for the benefit of south dakotans. work with donors, charities, and community leaders to strengthen philanthropy in south dakota.
Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.
To collaboratively create quality economic growth and workforce development in sioux falls.
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.
Improve the quality of the siouxland area
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.
Downtown Sioux Falls boldly leads the downtown community by championing diverse experiences, economic growth, and a healthy environment.
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Green Lake Association Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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 98 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 UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MN MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTASOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds South Dakota Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LEVITT SHELL SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE BANQUET ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR DEN ↗
- Who funds SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS ZOO & AQUARIUM ↗
- Who funds FARM RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FARM RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER ↗
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 · South Dakota Community Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Midcontinent Foundation · Avera Health · The Graco Foundation · Levo Cares Foundation · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Robert and Rita Elmen Foundation · 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 Steel Company Foundation 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.
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