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South Dakota Education Access Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2018
25
Grants FY2018
4
States reached
$387k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$4.0MPhilanthropy$200kHealth$500
02FY2018 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
4
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GREAT LAKES HIGHER ED: $45k → 10%SITTING BULL COLLEGE: $7k → 33%AUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $63k → 9%SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200k → 10%DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $72k → 10%BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY: $141k → 11%LAKE AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $70k → 11%NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $108k → 11%MOUNT MARTY COLLEGE: $45k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $387k → 13%MITCHELL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $45k → 14%NATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $120k → 14%SISSETON WAHPETON COLLEGE: $8k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHDAKOTA: $322k → 20%SINTE GLESKA UNIVERSITY: $28k → 40%OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $61k → 42%SITTING BULL COLLEGE: $7k → 33%AUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $63k → 9%DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $70k → 10%BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY: $141k → 11%LAKE AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $66k → 11%NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $76k → 11%MOUNT MARTY COLLEGE: $44k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $385k → 13%MITCHELL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $45k → 14%NATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $110k → 14%SISSETON WAHPETON COLLEGE: $8k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHDAKOTA: $318k → 20%SINTE GLESKA UNIVERSITY: $22k → 40%OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $60k → 42%UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $51k → 9%PRESENTATION COLLEGE: $31k → 11%AVERA SACRED HEART RAD TECH: $1k → 11%DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $39k → 14%SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND: $79k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $49k → 9%PRESENTATION COLLEGE: $30k → 11%AVERA SACRED HEART RAD TECH: $1k → 11%DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $39k → 14%SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND: $75k → 14%NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%HEADLINE ACADEMY: $10k → 14%SOUTHEAST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $103k → 9%BLACK HILLS BEAUTY COLLEGE: $8k → 14%SOUTHEAST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $99k → 9%HEADLINE ACADEMY: $3k → 14%WESTERN DAKOTA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $66k → 14%WESTERN DAKOTA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $57k → 14%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 24 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

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

24
2

Total granted

$4.0M
$53k

Still filing today

33%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • AU
    AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $126k · revenue +79%
  • OL
    OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $120k · revenue +9%
  • MM
    MOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $89k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • GL
    GREAT LAKES HIGHER ED
    one grant, 2017 · $45k
  • BH
    BLACK HILLS BEAUTY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
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
Augustana College

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…

Education
2
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
3
Simpson College

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.

Education
4
Union College

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.

Education
5
Ashland University

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…

Education
6
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

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.

Education
7
Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education
8
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
9
Saint Martin's University

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
10
LaGrange College

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…

Education
11
Southwestern Christian University

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…

Education
12
University of Dubuque

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Marty University; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $771,700 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHDAKOTA: $639,200 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHDAKOTABLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY: $282,100 · OtherBLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITYNATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $229,600 · OtherNATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITYSOUTHEAST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $202,500 · OtherSOUTHEAST TECHNICAL INSTITUTENORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $187,675 · OtherNORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITYSOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND: $154,000 · OtherDAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $141,700 · OtherLAKE AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $135,500 · OtherWESTERN DAKOTA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $122,592 · Other+10 more: $251,123 · Other+10 moreMAPPING YOUR FUTURE: $349,207 · EducationMAPPING YOUR FUTUREAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $125,500 · EducationAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASS…OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $120,000 · EducationOGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $100,100 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALL…MOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY: $89,400 · EducationMOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITYDAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $78,000 · EducationDAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSI…Presentation College: $61,000 · EducationPresentation CollegeSOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,117,690Education$923,207Philanthropy$200,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $125,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $100,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY: $89,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $78,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPresentation College: $61,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSITTING BULL COLLEGE: $13,300 over 2y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

South Dakota Communit…The Hatterscheidt Fou…Edward L Schwab Memor…American Indian Highe…American Indian Colle…Ascendium Education S…Sioux Falls Area Comm…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
South Dakota Community FoundationSD25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 South Dakota Education Access Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Dakota Education Access Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 South Dakota Education Access Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to South Dakota Education Access 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 28 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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