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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 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 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

+30%
+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
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

  • 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 +30% · 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%
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
South Dakota State University Foundation

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

Education
2
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.

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3
North Dakota State University Foundation

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

Education
4
North Dakota Masonic Foundation
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5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Usd Foundation
Philanthropy
9
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
10
South Dakota Foundation of Independent Colleges

Provide grant to member college that the SDFIC supports

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11
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.…

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12
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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Dakota Alpha Chapter Communit; 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's 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, 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

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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