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South Dakota State University Foundation
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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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $47,740,544 |
| DAKOTA BIOWORX | $3,328,375 |
| SDSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $565,048 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SDSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $258M
- DBDAKOTA BIOWORX3× · 2022–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +151% · 87% of their budget
- SDSouth Dakota State University Alumni Association5× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +40% · 43% of their budget
Funded once
- SDSOUTH DAKOTA ALPHA CHAPTER COMMUNITgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +130%
- AXALPHA XI DELTA CORP OF BROOKINGSone grant, 2018 · $102k · revenue -9%
- TETHE EMMERICH FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUSTone grant, 2018 · $65k · revenue -53%
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.
The corporation owns a fraternity house in Vermillion SD and rents rooms to students of the University of South Dakota.
Enhancing excellence by cultivating generosity and treasuring the loyalty of all we serve.
The function of the north dakota university system foundation is to support, enrich, advance and improve higher education in the state of north dakota, and to assist its students, faculty and staff.
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
Connect, engage and celebrate alumni, students and friends of sacramento state while building lifelong relationships that support the future of our university.
The purpose of this Corporation shall be to advance and promote in every proper manner, the welfare and best interests of the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks, it's students and staff
Dakota state university foundation is an independent non-profit corporation established for the purpose of raising and managing private funding for the benefit of dakota state university.
The Epsilon Delta chapter of Alpha Tau Omega at North Dakota State University serves as a premier leadership development organization. Our mission is to foster character and brotherhood while actively serving the Fargo-Moorhead community.…
A south dakota alliance dedicated to the development of biotechnology industries through expansion of bio-based research, investment, education, advocacy, funding, education, infrastructure development, and promotion.
To provide supervision, housing, and alumni contacts for undergraduate students of the sigma nu fraternity on the university of idaho campus.
As the voice for real estate, the south dakota association of realtors serves its local boards and all members by providing timely information, quality education, political advocacy and promoting the realtor image and code of ethics.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Dakota Alpha Chapter Communit and the most unlike its peers is The Emmerich Foundation Charitable Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 DAKOTA BIOWORX ↗
- Who funds South Dakota State University Alumni Association ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA ALPHA CHAPTER COMMUNIT ↗
- Who funds ALPHA XI DELTA CORP OF BROOKINGS ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds THE EMMERICH FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA THETA HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds Brookings Arts Council ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 State University 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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