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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.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$180kYouth Development$163kHealth$158kHuman Services$108kEducation$106kPhilanthropy$57kFood & Nutrition$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROSEBUD$1,000
ALS ASSOCIATION MNNDSD CHAPTER$1,000
UPPER MIDWEST ORGAN PROCUREMENT$1,000
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
HELPLINE CENTER INC$750
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR EASTERN SD$500
LIVE LIKE CAT FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MISSOURI SHORE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $2k → 10%MISSOURI SHORE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $2k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $1k → 9%CALL TO FREEDOM INC: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
SD
IA
CO
NE
VA
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$925k · 45 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
48

Total granted

$925k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+35%

Still filing today

42%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +37%
  • FS
    FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • SF
    SIOUX FALLS ZOO & AQUARIUMgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +89%
  • FR
    FARM RESCUE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +59%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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.

04Its 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
Sioux Falls Environmental Access Inc
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2
Siouxland Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
3
South Dakota Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
4
South Dakota Retailers Association

Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.

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5
Sioux Falls Development Foundation Inc

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

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6
Credit Union Association of the Dakotas

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.

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7
South Dakota Rural Electric Association

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.

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8
Siouxland Chamber of Commerce

Improve the quality of the siouxland area

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9
South Dakota Voices for Peace

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.

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10
Downtown Sioux Falls

Downtown Sioux Falls boldly leads the downtown community by championing diverse experiences, economic growth, and a healthy environment.

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11
Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

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…

Human Services
12
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 98 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
32/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $162,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $131,200 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHSIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC: $35,000 · OtherST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH CENTER: $32,000 · OtherAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MN MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTASOUTH DAKOTA: $27,000 · OtherAMERICAN BAPTIST ASSEMBLY: $25,000 · Other+68 more: $284,610 · Other+68 moreUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $92,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…FRIENDS OF LEVITT SHELL SIOUX FALLS: $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF L…+3 more: $4,500 · EducationBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $40,500 · HealthBLOOD CAN…CAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC: $34,250 · HealthCAPITAL A…TEDDY BEAR DEN: $5,500 · HealthTEDDY BEA…+3 more: $1,900 · HealthFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $25,000 · Food & NutritionTHE BANQUET: $6,850 · Food & NutritionFARM RESCUE: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,000 · Food & NutritionJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $23,250 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $11,450 · InternationalSouth Dakota Discovery Center: $16,500 · AnimalsSIOUX FALLS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,000 · AnimalsSIOUX FALLS ZOO & AQUARIUM: $5,000 · AnimalsDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $2,500 · AnimalsCAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY: $17,500 · PhilanthropySIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropySANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$696,910Education$111,500Health$82,150Food & Nutrition$37,850International$34,700Animals$30,000Philanthropy$20,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $92,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $40,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC: $34,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MN MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTASOUTH DAKOTA: $27,000 over 9y, 54% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $25,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $23,250 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY: $17,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSouth Dakota Discovery Center: $16,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEVITT SHELL SIOUX FALLS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $11,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BANQUET: $6,850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSIOUX FALLS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTEDDY BEAR DEN: $5,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $5,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSIOUX FALLS ZOO & AQUARIUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARM RESCUE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFARM RESCUE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSIOUX FALLS TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetROCK RANCH: $3,900 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEMBE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYAKS GIVE BACK FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetDakota Rural Action: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSIOUX FALLS ARTS COUNCIL: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HOUSE OF SIOUX FALLS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALL TO FREEDOM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE PRAIRIE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHIFT115 INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN LAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VIENNA-LUXEMBURG COMMUNITY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBrandon Area Food Pantry: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTHEAST TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREEN LAKE FESTIVAL OF MUSIC INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHRASHER OPERA HOUSE CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALO ALTO COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $400 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 FARM RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX FALLS TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER ↗

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.

Sioux Falls Area Comm…South Dakota Communit…Sanford Group ReturnMidcontinent Foundati…Avera HealthThe Graco FoundationLevo Cares FoundationThe Mike Cindy and Ky…Sheldon F Reese Found…First Interstate Banc…The Robert and Rita E…Tenfold Foundation Inc
Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation IncSD51.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sioux Steel Company Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sioux Steel Company Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 98 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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