South Dakota · Private foundation
Tennyson Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $46k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $11,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $107k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Tennyson Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 32 | $46k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $38k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $32k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $24k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $22k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $23k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $27k | 15% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Growing Roots Inc | $14,100 | 2 | 8% |
| United Way of the Black Hills | $10,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rapid City Club for Boys Inc | $9,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Custer Youth and Alumni Foundation | $9,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Christmas for Kids | $8,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Feeding South Dakota | $5,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Operation Black Hills Cabin | $5,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Estelline Alumni Association | $5,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota | $5,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Black Hills Works Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Growing Roots Inc | $14,100 | 2 | 8% |
| United Way of the Black Hills | $10,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rapid City Club for Boys Inc | $9,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Custer Youth and Alumni Foundation | $9,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Christmas for Kids | $8,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Feeding South Dakota | $5,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Operation Black Hills Cabin | $5,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Estelline Alumni Association | $5,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota | $5,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Black Hills Works Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Custer Area Arts Council Inc | $4,800 | 8 | n/a |
| Custer County Senior Citizens Club | $4,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Custer Ministerial Alliance Inc | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Front Porch Coalition | $3,500 | 7 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Custer Volunteer Fire Department | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Storybook Island | $1,600 | 8 | 0% |
| South Dakota State University | $1,250 | 8 | n/a |
| Custer County Library Foundation | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Midwest Honor Flight - Ia & Sd | $800 | 4 | 0% |
| The Compassionate Friends Inc | $700 | 7 | 0% |
| Special Olympics South Dakota Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($133k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tennyson Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Tennyson Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Tennyson Family Foundation Inc give?
- Tennyson Family Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $46,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Tennyson Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (19%), Youth Development (10%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are Tennyson Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Growing Roots Inc ($14k), United Way of the Black Hills ($10k), Rapid City Club for Boys Inc ($9k).
- Does Tennyson Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tennyson Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tennyson Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Black Hills Area Community Foundation, South Dakota Community Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Where is Tennyson Family Foundation Inc based?
- Tennyson Family Foundation Inc is based in SD.
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