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South Dakota State University Foundation

Enhancing excellence by cultivating generosity and treasuring the loyalty of all we serve.

$52M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$48M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$260MScience & Tech$7.3MRecreation & Sports$130kPhilanthropy$70kReligion$35kYouth Development$33kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,328,375
Median grant
1
States reached
$412M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$47,740,544
DAKOTA BIOWORX$3,328,375
SDSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$565,048
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 10%EMMERICH FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST: $65k → 5%ALPHA XI DELTA CORPORATION: $102k → 11%SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL: $50k → 12%THE GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC: $100k → 13%SIOUX FALLS CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $28k → 9%DAKOTA BIOWORX: $3.3M → 13%ROBERTS COUNTY 4-H: $33k → 17%SD THETA HOUSE CORPORATION: $16k → 9%DAKOTA BIOWORX: $2.1M → 13%SD THETA HOUSE CORPORATION: $11k → 9%DAKOTA BIOWORX: $1.9M → 13%SDSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $565k → 13%SDSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $534k → 13%SDSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $483k → 13%ST THOMAS MORE CHURCH: $35k → 13%JACKRABBIT GOLF CLUB INC: $28k → 13%SD THETA HOUSE CORPORATION: $24k → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA THETA HOUSE CORPORATION: $11k → 13%SDSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $9k → 13%SDSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $9k → 13%BROOKINGS ART COUNCIL: $5k → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $56.9M → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $47.7M → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $39.8M → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $26.2M → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $25.9M → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $20.6M → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $20.5M → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $20.2M → 13%SIGMA PHI EPSILON FRATERNITY: $500k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$267M · 4 repeat orgs$870k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$267M
$870k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+24%

Still filing today

75%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $258M
  • DB
    DAKOTA BIOWORX
    3× · 2022–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +151% · 87% of their budget
  • SD
    South Dakota State University Alumni Association
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +40% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA ALPHA CHAPTER COMMUNITgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +130%
  • AX
    ALPHA XI DELTA CORP OF BROOKINGS
    one grant, 2018 · $102k · revenue -9%
  • TE
    THE EMMERICH FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST
    one 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.

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.

1
South Dakota Sigma Chapter House Association

The corporation owns a fraternity house in Vermillion SD and rents rooms to students of the University of South Dakota.

2
South Dakota State University Foundation

Enhancing excellence by cultivating generosity and treasuring the loyalty of all we serve.

Education
3
North Dakota University System Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
4
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
5
California State University Alumni Association

Connect, engage and celebrate alumni, students and friends of sacramento state while building lifelong relationships that support the future of our university.

Education
6
North Dakota Masonic Foundation
7
Fellows of the University of North Dakota

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

Education
8
Dakota State University Foundation

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.

Education
9
Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity

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.…

10
South Dakota Biotechnology Association

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.

Community Improvement
11
Zeta Delta Trust Co

To provide supervision, housing, and alumni contacts for undergraduate students of the sigma nu fraternity on the university of idaho campus.

12
South Dakota Association of Realtors Inc

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.

Community Improvement

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY — $257,916,591 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY+6 more — $251,165 · OtherDAKOTA BIOWORX — $7,326,253 · Community ImprovementSouth Dakota State University Alumni Association — $1,600,125 · EducationSOUTH DAKOTA ALPHA CHAPTER COMMUNIT — $500,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $100,000 · Education+2 more — $75,000 · EducationALPHA XI DELTA CORP OF BROOKINGS — $101,992 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $5,000 · PhilanthropyBrookings Arts Council — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$258,167,756Community Improvement$7,326,253Education$2,275,125Recreation & Sports$101,992Philanthropy$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDAKOTA BIOWORX — $7,326,253 over 3y, 87% of budgetSouth Dakota State University Alumni Association — $1,600,125 over 5y, 43% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA THETA HOUSE CORPORATION — $62,782 over 4y, 10% of budgetSANTA CATALINA SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrookings Arts Council — $5,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to South Dakota State University Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to South Dakota State University 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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