· Community foundation
South Dakota Community Foundation
Receive and administer charitable gifts and permanent endowments primarily for the benefit of south dakotans.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 390 grants below total $39,717,683 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $41,399,797 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,682,114 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
- Under $10k86 grants · $612k
- $10k–50k202 grants · $3.9M
- $50k–250k75 grants · $7.6M
- $250k+27 grants · $28M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| South Dakota State University | $3,443,105 |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Plains Inc | $2,043,919 |
| South Dakota State University Foundation | $1,923,915 |
| Southeast Technical College | $1,841,150 |
| Lake Area Technical College | $1,805,328 |
| University of South Dakota | $1,791,177 |
| Mitchell Technical College | $1,611,211 |
| Children's Museum of South Dakota | $1,563,000 |
| Western Dakota Technical College | $1,470,924 |
| Missouri Shores Domestic Violence Center | $1,150,779 |
| East Central Mental Health & Chemical Dependency Center | $1,005,000 |
| Foothills Community Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| South Dakota Hall of Fame | $699,532 |
| Black Hills State University | $668,600 |
| Dakota State University | $604,994 |
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 (FY17–24, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
429 repeat relationships — 277 still active in FY2024, 152 since wound down; 90 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.3M 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +174% · 43% of their budget
- MTMITCHELL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +56% · 90% of their budget
- STSOUTHEAST TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $6.4M · revenue +403%
Funded once
- GSGREATER STURGIS LIFECARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $200k
- MOMother of God Monasteryone grant, 2023 · $101k
- SSSIMPLY SMILES INCone grant, 2022 · $101k · revenue -61%
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.
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…
Economic development in the watertown, south dakota area.
Rural water development in south dakota
Chamber of commerce
Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.
Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.
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,…
To promote the conservation of natural resources in the state of north dakota
Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Castlewood Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
510 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. 510 of the 837 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN DAKOTA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA COUNSELING SERVICEINC ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CASEY TIBBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds EAST CENTRAL MH & CD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND CENTURY HABITAT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds GLACIAL LAKES AREA DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds Foothills Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northern State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAPPING YOUR FUTURE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE DAKOTAS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORWARD HURON ↗
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: Avera Health · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Black Hills Area Community Foundation · Larson Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Midcontinent Foundation · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · United Way of the Black Hills · Valley Queen Charitable Foundation · Oahe Foundation · Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee
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 South Dakota Community 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
- St Thomas University Inc — 0% of income from government
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.