How much did SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION ACCESS grant in FY2018?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION ACCESS’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2018 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

Under $10k6 grants · $31k
$10k–50k5 grants · $187k
$50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
$250k+2 grants · $708k

$56,792

Median grant

States reached

$43M

Total assets

Largest grants

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$386,800
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHDAKOTA$321,500
MAPPING YOUR FUTURE$170,666
BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY$140,800
NATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$110,100
NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY$107,773
SOUTHEAST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE$99,300
SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND$78,900
DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$72,100
LAKE AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE$69,500
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE$62,600
OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE$60,500
WESTERN DAKOTA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE$56,792
UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS$50,700
MITCHELL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE$45,400

02The need

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 9%. 89% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.0M · 24 repeat orgs$254k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.0M

$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

-14%

Still filing today

50%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

BH
BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY
2× · 2017–2018 · $282k · revenue +529%
ST
SOUTHEAST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
2× · 2017–2018 · $203k · revenue +26%
SD
SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND
2× · 2017–2018 · $154k · revenue +141%

Funded once

SD
SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue -14%
GL
GREAT LAKES HIGHER ED
one grant, 2017 · $45k
BH
BLACK HILLS BEAUTY COLLEGE
one grant, 2017 · $8k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

South Dakota State University Foundation

Uniting the dreams of our students, university, and donors to build a better sdsu.

Education

University of South Dakota Foundation

Provide private resources to benefit the university of south dakota.

Education

Johnson University

Johnson university is a private, coeducational institution of higher learning offering associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.

Education

Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education

The Southwestern College

The southwestern college is a private, not-for-profit college serving traditional age-students and adult learners with undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

Education

Minot State University Development

To establish, promote and stimulate voluntary financial support for the benefit of minot state university, especially in building of endowment and in addressing the long-term priorities of the university.

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Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover share knowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and develop leadership expressed in service to others.

Education

The Governors of the University of Calgary

The University is a board-governed public post-secondary institution operating in Alberta as a Comprehensive Academic and Research University (CARU) under the authority of the Post-secondary Learning Act (PSLA). CARU institutions have an…

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La Sierra University

To educate undergraduate and graduate students; to promote research and instruction in multiple areas; and to contribute to the good of the larger society.

Education

Buena Vista University

We prepare students for lifelong success through transformational educational experiences.

Education

Saginaw Valley State University

To generate and cultivate a community of enthusiastic and loyal donors who contribute to the development of a premier university of outstanding students.

Education

Simpson College

A residential, coeducation, undergraduate liberal arts college.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Marty University and the most unlike its peers is Black Hills State University. 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

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/13

Grantees still filing

8/13

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,469,090Education$1,369,307Housing & Shelter$202,500Philanthropy$200,000

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.

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.

South Dakota Community FoundationSD26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation · Durnill Charitable Trust · The Hatterscheidt Foundation Inc · Avera Health · Sioux Falls Area Community · Paine Dick Educational Trust · A L Steinke Perpetual Scholarship · Black Hills Area Community · Tulsa Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION ACCESS 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LAKE AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 460381673 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LAKE AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 91% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to South Dakota Education Access?

Find your warmest path to South Dakota Education Access through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION ACCESS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to South Dakota Education Access?

More from the funding graph

SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION ACCESS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to South Dakota Education Access?

More from the funding graph