South Dakota · Public charity
The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc
To promote, enhance, and develop programs and classes to educate youth regarding the safe and responsible handling of firearms and to otherwise promote and foster programs intended to eliminate firearms accidents.
- $271k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $84,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 40
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $122k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $271k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $298k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $213k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $181k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $24k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $130k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $120k | 47% |
| FY2017 | 30 | $128k | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Recreation & Sports$1.1MYouth Development$70kAnimals$69kHuman Services$50kEducation$36kEnvironment$19kFood & Nutrition$9kCommunity Improvement$8kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen Gun Club Inc | $292,595 | 8 | 33% |
| Sportsmans Club of Brown County | $172,885 | 8 | n/a |
| Whitetail Bowmen Archery Club Inc | $83,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Marshall County Sportsmans Club | $45,790 | 8 | n/a |
| Day County 4-H Shooting Sports | $36,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Northern Oahe Sportsman Club | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| South Dakota Wildlife Federation | $32,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Webster Area Chamber of Commerce | $28,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Edmunds County 4h Shooting Sports | $25,500 | 6 | n/a |
| South Dakota State University | $25,150 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen Gun Club Inc | $292,595 | 8 | 33% |
| Sportsmans Club of Brown County | $172,885 | 8 | n/a |
| Whitetail Bowmen Archery Club Inc | $83,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Marshall County Sportsmans Club | $45,790 | 8 | n/a |
| Day County 4-H Shooting Sports | $36,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Northern Oahe Sportsman Club | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| South Dakota Wildlife Federation | $32,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Webster Area Chamber of Commerce | $28,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Edmunds County 4h Shooting Sports | $25,500 | 6 | n/a |
| South Dakota State University | $25,150 | 4 | n/a |
| Roberts County Sportsmens Club Inc | $24,300 | 3 | 22% |
| Ipswich Sportsman Club | $22,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of Aberdeen Area Inc | $21,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Deuel County Shooting Sports | $21,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Sunshine Bible Academy | $21,200 | 2 | 1% |
| Aberdeen Catholic School Systems | $20,600 | 7 | n/a |
| Deuel Area Clay Target Association | $20,200 | 3 | n/a |
| Webster Clay Bird Club | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Leola Sportsmen Club | $17,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Aberdeen Central Clay Target Team | $15,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Clark County Shooting Sports | $15,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Roberts Co 4h Shooting Sports | $15,000 | 4 | n/a |
| James Valley Sportsman Youth Shooting | $14,850 | 7 | n/a |
| Izaak Walton League of America Inc | $14,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Marshall County Sharpshooters | $12,530 | 5 | n/a |
| Day County Chapter - Iwla | $11,700 | 5 | n/a |
| Marshall County 4h Trap Team | $11,400 | 3 | n/a |
| McPherson County 4h Sharpshooters | $10,700 | 4 | n/a |
| Watertown Trap League | $9,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Groton Area High School | $9,400 | 3 | n/a |
| Hamilin County 4h Shooting Sports | $9,300 | 4 | n/a |
| Aberdeen Christian School Inc | $9,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Lutherans Outdoors in South Dakota Inc | $8,400 | 2 | 0% |
| McPherson County 4-H Sharpshooters | $8,300 | 3 | n/a |
| Disabled American Veterans | $7,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Aberdeen Family YMCA | $7,300 | 4 | 0% |
| 4c's 4h Archery | $7,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Watertown Anglers Association | $6,800 | 2 | n/a |
| Tri-State Shooters Club Inc | $6,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Oakes Handgun Association | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Codington County 4-H Leaders Association-Shooting Sports | $6,200 | 3 | n/a |
| Tulare Sportsman Club Inc | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hecla Sportsmens Club | $5,758 | 3 | n/a |
| Britton Hecla Hs Trap Team | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| South Dakota Youth Heritage Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 45% |
| Marshall County 4h Archery | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Cresbard Sportsmen Club | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ellendale 4-H Shooting Sports | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hamlin Co Sportsman Club - Chad Nelson Memorial Deer Camp | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Get Up and Get Outdoors | $4,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Clark High School Clay Target League Inc | $4,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Holgate Middle School | $4,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Walworth County 4h Shooting Sports | $4,400 | 2 | n/a |
| SD Wounded Warrior Pheasant Hunt | $4,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Half Cocked Lodge | $4,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Clark County 4h Shooting Sports-Archery | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sisseton Highschool Trap Team | $3,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Wall Lake Hunting Club | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Marshall Co 4h Trap Team | $3,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Potter County 4h Shooting Sports | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Elm Lake Action Committee | $3,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Selby Kids Ice Fishing Derby | $3,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Warner High School Trap Team | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Florence School | $2,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Redfield Pheasants HS Trap Team | $2,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Aberdeen Hunting Terrier Association | $2,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Bowdle Clay Target | $2,450 | 1 | n/a |
| Snake Creek Rustlers (Cowboy action shooting) | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Heroes Outdoors | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Walworth County 4-H Shooting Sports | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Campbell County 4h Shooting Sports Program | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Groton Area Clay Target Club | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aberdeen School District | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Dtom 220 Foundation | $1,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Webster Area High School Trap Club | $1,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Brown County 4-H Shooting Sports Brown Co 4-H | $1,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Oakes Public Schools | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Faulk County 4-H Shooting Sports | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Bowdle Sportsmen Club | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| South Dakota Trappers Association | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Disabled American Veteran's Chapter 13 | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| SD School for the Blind | $925 | 1 | n/a |
| Dakota Sportsman | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| AberInc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.
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
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.
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About The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc
- How much does The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc give?
- The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc reported 36 grants totaling $271,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (79%), Youth Development (5%), Animals (5%).
- Who are The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Aberdeen Gun Club Inc ($293k), Sportsmans Club of Brown County ($173k), Whitetail Bowmen Archery Club Inc ($83k).
- Does The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, Ascendium Education Solutions Inc, Sanford Group Return.
- Where is The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc based?
- The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc is based in SD.
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