South Dakota · Public charity
The Lakota Fund Incorporated
Promote economic sustainability and break the cycle of poverty by providing native people with access to the capital and financial services healthy communities need to flourish.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $780,125
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $32M
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Plains Housing Initiative Inc | $800,791 | 1 | n/a |
| South Dakota Native Homeownership Coalition Inc | $780,125 | 1 | 39% |
| Crow Creek Housing Authority | $243,916 | 2 | n/a |
| Four Bands Community Fund Inc | $239,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sisseton-Wahpeton Housing Authority | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Yankon Sioux Housing Authority | $114,068 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Dakota Technical Institute | $100,103 | 2 | n/a |
| Sicangu Wicoti Awanyakapi | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Tatanka Funds Incorporated | $100,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Sitting Bull College | $83,876 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Plains Housing Initiative Inc | $800,791 | 1 | n/a |
| South Dakota Native Homeownership Coalition Inc | $780,125 | 1 | 39% |
| Crow Creek Housing Authority | $243,916 | 2 | n/a |
| Four Bands Community Fund Inc | $239,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sisseton-Wahpeton Housing Authority | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Yankon Sioux Housing Authority | $114,068 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Dakota Technical Institute | $100,103 | 2 | n/a |
| Sicangu Wicoti Awanyakapi | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Tatanka Funds Incorporated | $100,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Sitting Bull College | $83,876 | 1 | 1% |
| Sioux Falls School District #49-5 | $65,426 | 1 | n/a |
| Mitchell School District 17-2 Dba Mitchell Technical College | $56,533 | 1 | n/a |
| Sinte Gleska College Center Inc | $53,619 | 2 | n/a |
| Lake Area Technical College | $52,118 | 1 | n/a |
| South Dakota State University | $44,538 | 2 | n/a |
| Sisseton Wahpeton College | $26,375 | 1 | n/a |
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 · First Nations Development Institute · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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About The Lakota Fund Incorporated
- How much does The Lakota Fund Incorporated give?
- The Lakota Fund Incorporated reported 10 itemized grants totaling $1,435,968, out of $1,666,436 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
- What does The Lakota Fund Incorporated fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (70%), Education (16%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are The Lakota Fund Incorporated's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Great Plains Housing Initiative Inc ($801k), South Dakota Native Homeownership Coalition Inc ($780k), Crow Creek Housing Authority ($244k).
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lakota Fund Incorporated?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, First Nations Development Institute, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Lakota Fund Incorporated based?
- The Lakota Fund Incorporated is based in SD.
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