· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 93% of THE FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH FIREARMS SAFETY INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABERDEEN GUN CLUB | $84,000 |
| SPORTSMAN'S CLUB OF BROWN COUNTY | $31,900 |
| WHITETAIL BOWMEN ARCHERY CLUB | $25,000 |
| CLARK COUNTY SHOOTING SPORTS | $9,300 |
| DEUEL AREA CLAY TARGET ASSOCIATION | $8,700 |
| LUDDEN OUTDOORSMEN & YOUTH HABITAT | $8,500 |
| DAY COUNTY 4-H SHOOTING SPORTS | $7,500 |
| SDWF YOUTH CONSERVATION CAMP | $6,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY SPORTSMENS CLUB | $5,000 |
| WEBSTER AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $5,000 |
| HAMLIN CO SPORTSMAN CLUB - CHAD NELSON MEMORIAL DEER CAMP | $5,000 |
| DEUEL COUNTY SHOOTING SPORTS | $5,000 |
| ABERDEEN RONCALLI HS TRAP TEAM | $4,700 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY SHARPSHOOTERS | $4,500 |
| EDMUNDS COUNTY 4H SHOOTING SPORTS | $4,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in SD; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 0% since the first grant, against -67% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- AGABERDEEN GUN CLUB INC8× · 2017–2025 · $293k · revenue +66% · 33% of their budget
- SBSunshine Bible Academy2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +20%
- AFAberdeen Family YMCA4× · 2017–2022 · $7k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- NONORTHERN OAHE SPORTSMAN CLUBone grant, 2024 · $35k
- OHOAKES HANDGUN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $7k
- E4Ellendale 4-H Shooting Sportsone grant, 2019 · $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 sustain and restore hunt-able pheasant populations, to encourage and educate interested youth, and to celebrate our pheasant hunting heritage in the state of south dakota.
The Sioux Valley Gun Club is dedicated to promoting safe responsible firearm use through education with a focus on youth development gun safety training and participation in trap shooting programs.
Sportsmen's club promoting shooting sports, the love of the outdoors and conservation but mostly safety and knowledge of of the shooting sports.
Youth sports competition program
To provide instructional programs for hunting and the shooting sports
We are a conservation organization that provides a variety of events and facilities to help members and the public improve their outdoor skills.
We are a recreational trap, skeet, and pistol shooting and training facility.
Public Education of Conservation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Dakota Wildlife Federation and the most unlike its peers is Sunshine Bible Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 31. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 25% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
13 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. 13 of the 97 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.
- Who funds ABERDEEN GUN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ROBERTS COUNTY SPORTSMENS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ABERDEEN AREA INC ↗
- Who funds Sunshine Bible Academy ↗
- Who funds IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Aberdeen Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERANS OUTDOORS IN SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds Aberdeen Family YMCA ↗
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 · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Sanford Group Return · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc 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.