· Public charity
United Way of Northeastern South Dakota Inc
The mission of the United Way of Northeastern South Dakota (United Way) is to improve our region by mobilizing the caring power of communities for every person in northeastern South Dakota.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 90% of United Way of Northeastern South Dakota 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.
The 12 grants below total $484,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $540,871 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,271 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $331k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen Family YMCA | $124,000 |
| Safe Harbor | $110,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Aberdeen | $96,600 |
| The Salvation Army | $42,000 |
| SPURS | $33,000 |
| CASSP | $22,500 |
| Aberdeen Area Senior Center | $18,000 |
| Tiger Post | $15,000 |
| YAPA | $10,000 |
| Delta Dental of SD Foundation | $6,000 |
| East River Legal Services | $4,000 |
| KO Lee Library | $3,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- AFAberdeen Family YMCA9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +28%
- STSPURS Therapeutic Riding Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $277k · revenue +102%
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- ASAberdeen Senior Center Incone grant, 2017 · $20k
- AIArea IV Senior Citizen Planning Councilone grant, 2020 · $13k
- ASAvera St Luke'sone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +2%
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.
The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…
St. Luke's Home and its assisted living facility, Park Avenue Villa, exist to provide a continuum of quality care to God's people, creating a compassionate, comfortable, and family oriented atmosphere, striving to enhance the dignity and…
Serve as a local access to a full range of health care services. continue as a leader in primary care for the whole family, in care of the elderly, and in emergency services. Function as a focal point for health education and wellness.
Recruit, retain, expand, and provide entrepreneurial support to enhance economic opportunity in Aberdeen and our surrounding region.
Bring hope, health and healing to life.
Provide long-term skilled nursing care services to individuals through its skilled nursing facility. Provide housing and assistance with daily living to seniors through its assisted living units.
Founded in Christian faith, we enrich lives with love and compassion.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
Avera is a health ministry rooted in the Gospel. Our mission is to make a positive impact in the lives and health of persons and communities by providing quality services guided by Christian values.
Avera is a health ministry rooted in the Gospel. Our mission is to make a positive impact in the lives and health of persons and communities by providing quality services guided by Christian values.
The mission of this Catholic health care facility, St. Gerard's Community of Care, is to strive to provide the residents with loving and caring service based on Christ's mission of love and compassion in accordance with gospel values and…
To advance the health of patients and communities we serve through a culture of leadership, continuous improvement and accountability. Jacobson Memorial Hospital Care Center (JMHCC) understands the relationship that exists between body,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota and the most unlike its peers is Ipswich Tiger Post Community Center. 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 56 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 30 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 Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds Safe Harbor ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ABERDEEN AREA INC ↗
- Who funds SPURS Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ABERDEEN AREA CHILDR AND ADOLESCENT SERVICE SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds Ipswich Tiger Post Community Center ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Northeastern Mental Health Center ↗
- Who funds Aberdeen Senior Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Avera St Luke's ↗
- Who funds Presentation College ↗
- Who funds DELTA DENTAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bethesda Home of Aberdeen Inc ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity International Inc DBA Hub Area Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds East River Legal Services Corporation ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds Cornerstones Career Learning Center ↗
- Who funds DTOM 220 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY ↗
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: United Way of NE SD Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Avera Health · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Sioux Empire United Way Inc · Sanford Group Return · Brookings Area United Way · Watertown Area United Way Inc · Tom & Danielle Aman Foundation · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family 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 United Way of Northeastern South Dakota 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.