· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| DEUEL COUNTY SHOOTING SPORTS | $5,000 |
| HAMLIN CO SPORTSMAN CLUB - CHAD NELSON MEMORIAL DEER CAMP | $5,000 |
| WEBSTER AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $5,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY SPORTSMENS CLUB | $5,000 |
| ABERDEEN RONCALLI HS TRAP TEAM | $4,700 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY SHARPSHOOTERS | $4,500 |
| EDMUNDS COUNTY 4H SHOOTING SPORTS | $4,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in SD; by stated purpose, 87%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -67% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- BHBRITTON HECLA HS TRAP TEAMone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 97 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Sanford Group Return · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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