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The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation at a glance

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The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$286k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$579kRecreation & Sports$488kHealth$389kEducation$319kPhilanthropy$92kHuman Services$50kArts & Culture$44kYouth Development$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $244k
$150
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF YANKTON$100,071
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FDN$79,300
AVERA HEALTH FOUNDATION$65,000
HUETHER FAMILY MATCH POINTE$10,200
SIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY$10,000
SOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME$5,200
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SIOUX EMPIRE$4,700
WASHINGTON PAVILION MANAGEMENT INC$3,150
HOLY SPIRIT PARISH OF MINNEHAHA CTY$1,600
SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FNDTN$1,200
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SD$750
INSPIRATION HILLS$680
SOUTH DAKOTA TENNIS HALL OF FAME INC$500
Individual grant recipient$500
UNITED STATES TENNIS ASSOCIATION NORTHERN$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DREAM FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%PATHWAYS SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 11%SIOUX FALLS HOPE COALITION: $10k → 5%SIOUX FALLS HOPE COALITION: $5k → 5%RIVER CITY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $1k → 11%SIOUX FALLS HOPE COALITION: $5k → 5%SIOUX FALLS HOPE COALITION: $3k → 5%SIOUX FALLS HOPE COALITION: $3k → 5%ACTIVE GENERATIONS: $500 → 9%PATHWAYS SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $75 → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $700 → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $100 → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $100 → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $100 → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $1k → 9%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $300 → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $200 → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $200 → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $200 → 9%CALL TO FREEDOM INC: $100 → 9%CALL TO FREEDOM: $100 → 9%TRANSFORMATION PROJECT INC: $600 → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SD: $750 → 9%FURNITURE MISSION: $100 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
WI
NY
SD
IA
IN
PA
CA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 67 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
125

Total granted

$2.0M
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+27%

Still filing today

48%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $136k · revenue +15%
  • AU
    AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +79%
  • SF
    SIOUX FALLS HOPE COALITION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +276%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $72k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE
    one grant, 2021 · $16k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SIOUX EMP
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Downtown Sioux Falls

Downtown Sioux Falls boldly leads the downtown community by championing diverse experiences, economic growth, and a healthy environment.

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2
Sd Association of Healthcare Organizations

Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.

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3
Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…

Human Services
4
South Dakota Retailers Association

Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.

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5
South Dakota Rural Electric Association

To serve the rural electric cooperatives in south dakota, to promote the effective development of rural electrification in south dakota on a cooperative, non-profit basis.

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6
Sioux Falls Development Foundation Inc

To collaboratively create quality economic growth and workforce development in sioux falls.

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7
South Dakota Community Foundation

Receive and administer charitable gifts and permanent endowments primarily for the benefit of south dakotans. work with donors, charities, and community leaders to strengthen philanthropy in south dakota.

Philanthropy
8
South Dakota Dental Association

It is the mission of the south dakota dental association to promote the art and science of dentistry and the oral health of the public; educate the public on the benefits of quality preventative and restorative dentistry as provided by the…

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9
Watertown Development Company

Economic development in the watertown, south dakota area.

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10
Sioux Falls Environmental Access Inc
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11
Credit Union Association of the Dakotas

The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.

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12
Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc

In partnership with donors, sioux falls area community foundation (sfacf) provides philanthropic leadership that assures the quality of life in our area, for good, for ever.the community foundation cultivates philanthropy by inspiring new…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding South Dakota; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 209 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/77
Grantees still filing
53/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF YANKTON: $578,460 · OtherCITY OF YANKTONAVERA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $361,870 · OtherAVERA HEALTH FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY TENNIS CENTER: $260,350 · OtherCOMMUNITY TENNIS CENTERHUETHER FAMILY MATCH POINTE: $135,805 · OtherHUETHER FAMILY MATCH POINTESIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC: $90,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $72,000 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $66,955 · Other+150 more: $258,067 · Other+150 moreSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $136,325 · EducationSOUTH DAK…AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $36,350 · EducationAUGUSTANA…+5 more: $900 · EducationSIOUX FALLS HOPE COALITION: $25,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $13,136 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $10,075 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $2,890 · Human ServicesDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $2,300 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 · Human Services+6 more: $3,400 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON PAVILION MANAGEMENT INC: $16,317 · Arts & CultureSTOCKYARDS PLAZA INC: $9,999 · Arts & CultureSOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME: $6,725 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $1,175 · Arts & CultureTHE BANQUET: $12,196 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $650 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $100 · Food & NutritionTEDDY BEAR DEN: $6,935 · HealthAvera McKennan: $2,760 · Health+9 more: $1,450 · HealthSIOUX FALLS TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsSIOUX EMPIRE BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $675 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,823,857Education$173,575Human Services$58,801Arts & Culture$34,216Food & Nutrition$12,946Health$11,145Recreation & Sports$10,675

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $136,325 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC: $90,350 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $36,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUX FALLS HOPE COALITION: $25,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetWASHINGTON PAVILION MANAGEMENT INC: $16,317 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $13,136 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BANQUET: $12,196 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPATHWAYS SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $10,075 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSIOUX FALLS TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSTOCKYARDS PLAZA INC: $9,999 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTEDDY BEAR DEN: $6,935 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME: $6,725 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEMBE: $6,575 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY VISITATION CENTER: $5,900 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSIOUX FALLS AREA CASA PROGRAM: $5,100 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $2,890 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAvera McKennan: $2,760 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HOUSE OF SIOUX FALLS: $2,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMPASS CENTER: $2,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $2,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSIOUX FALLS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMulti-Cultural Center of Sioux Falls: $1,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELPLINE CENTER INC: $1,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER CITY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKiwanis Club of Sioux Falls: $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA VOICES FOR PEACE: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIOUX EMPIRE BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $675 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $670 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $645 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYANKTON AREA SENIOR CITIZEN: $630 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSFORMATION PROJECT INC: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION: $550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES INC DBA ACTIVE GENERATIONS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuild Springs Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHEARTLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARMONY SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $450 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSERTOMA INTERNATIONAL CLUB SIOUX FALLS: $350 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSIOUX EMPIRE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP SOUTH DAKOTA: $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX FALLS HOPE COALITION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON PAVILION MANAGEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds THE BANQUET ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX FALLS TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds STOCKYARDS PLAZA INC ↗
  • Who funds TEDDY BEAR DEN ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME ↗
  • Who funds EMBE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY VISITATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA CASA PROGRAM ↗

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.

Sioux Falls Area Comm…Avera HealthSouth Dakota Communit…Sanford Group ReturnMidcontinent Foundati…Sheldon F Reese Found…First Interstate Banc…Sioux Empire United W…Larson FoundationThe Robert and Rita E…Greg and Pam Sands Fo…Tenfold Foundation Inc
Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation IncSD96.9× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Avera Health · South Dakota Community Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Midcontinent Foundation · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sioux Empire United Way Inc · Larson Foundation · The Robert and Rita Elmen Foundation · Greg and Pam Sands Foundation · Tenfold Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Orlando Science Centerinc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 209 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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