· Private foundation
Sturgis Rally Charities Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISIS INTERVENTION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| MEADE 46-1 SCHOOL NURSE | $6,000 |
| STURGIS KIWANIS FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAU | $3,000 |
| MEADE CO SENIOR CITIZENS CENT | $3,000 |
| STURGIS ALLIANCE OF CHURCHES | $3,000 |
| NORTHERN HILLS DRUG COURT | $3,000 |
| STURGIS BROWN HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMY | $2,950 |
| BH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,500 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,125 |
| SD MINES COLLEGE | $2,125 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $2,125 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $2,125 |
| STURGIS PUBLIC LIBRARY YOUTH | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +109% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- RFRealtors for Kids Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +6%
- LILOVE INC OF THE BLACK HILLS3× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +130%
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD CLINIC INC7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- RMRURAL MEADE AMBULANCE SERVICEone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SSSTURGIS SOCCER ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -6%
- SYSTURGIS YOUTH BASEBALLone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
To serve as a twenty-four hour seven day a week volunteer-powered crisis line service for anyone in distress; providing empathic listening, emotional support, collaborative problem-solving, crisis and suicide intervention, and referral to…
Provide aid Food assistance, and crisis assistance
Twenty-four hour crisis line, temporary emergency shelter, counseling and other assistance for victims of domestic and sexual violence & assualt.
Help family find mental health services
Assist needy children and families in the local area through partnerships with multiple school districts
Help for homeless
Public safety
Food assistance to the hungry.
Public Service
Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.
Our mission is to provide assistance and resources for families of domestic violence and other justice issues. we provide financial as well as employement assistance, rental and utilities and housing ass
Through person - to - person service, st. vincent de paul council of northern kentucky provides emergency assistance and basis necessities to individuals and families struggling to make ends meet.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Love Inc of the Black Hills and the most unlike its peers is Front Porch Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 110 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.
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 · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · John T Vucurevich Foundation · Black Hills Area Community Foundation · Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc · Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee · United Way of the Black Hills · Synchrony Foundation · 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 Sturgis Rally Charities 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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