· Private foundation
South Dakota Education Access Foundation
Its FY2018 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION ACCESS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your 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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
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
- AUAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2018 · $126k · revenue +79%
- OLOGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE2× · 2017–2018 · $120k · revenue +22%
- MMMOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $89k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- GLGREAT LAKES HIGHER EDone grant, 2017 · $45k
- BHBLACK HILLS BEAUTY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Saint martin's students learn to make a positive difference in their lives and in the lives of others through the interaction of faith, reason, and service. the university honors both the sacredness of the individual and the significance…
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Scu is a christ-centered liberal arts institution equipping students for a life of learning, leadership, and service; integrating faith, learning, and living; and empowering graduates to excel and to positively impact their world for jesus…
The university of dubuque is a private university offering undergraduate, graduate, and theological seminary degrees, and other educational opportunities with the intention of educating and forming the whole person. the university is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Marty University and the most unlike its peers is Mapping Your Future. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 28 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 MAPPING YOUR FUTURE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Presentation College ↗
- Who funds SITTING BULL COLLEGE ↗
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: South Dakota Community Foundation · The Hatterscheidt Foundation Inc · Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank · American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc · American Indian College Fund · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Education Access 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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