· Public charity
United Way of the Black Hills
UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS organizes and implements an annual fundraising campaign to help support the budgets of local nonprofit agencies.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $918,587 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $997,016 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $78,429 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 $10k5 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $645k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA | $90,000 |
| YFS INC | $75,000 |
| WORKING AGAINST VIOLENCE INC | $70,000 |
| BLACK HILLS SPECIAL SERVICES COOPER | $39,300 |
| YMCA | $36,500 |
| CASA 7TH CIRCUIT | $35,000 |
| RAPID CITY CLUB FOR BOYS | $35,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN SD | $34,000 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES | $30,000 |
| BLACK HILLS CENTER FOR AGING | $30,000 |
| VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE INTERVENTION | $26,000 |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD CONNECTIONS | $25,000 |
| BLACK HILLS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| CASA OF THE NORTHERN HILLS | $25,000 |
| JOURNEY ON INC | $25,000 |
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, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +33% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- YFYOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +19%
- FSFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA9× · 2017–2025 · $850k · revenue +28%
- RCRAPID CITY Y M C A9× · 2017–2025 · $715k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- NHNORTHERN HILLS ALLIANCE FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue -28%
- WDWESTERN DAKOTA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +53%
- AHABBOTT HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +62%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Front Porch Coalition. 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 66 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 YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds RAPID CITY Y M C A ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN HILLS AREA CASA PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WORKING AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds RAPID CITY CLUB FOR BOYS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS O ↗
- Who funds RURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF THE BLACK HILLS ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds BLACK HILLS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds WEST RIVER TRANSIT AUTHORITY INC DBA PRAIRIE HILLS TRANSIT ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of the Black Hills ↗
- Who funds RUSHMORE CONSUMER CREDIT RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds BLACK HILLS AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 695 ↗
- Who funds VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE INTERVENTION ↗
- Who funds 7TH CIRCUIT COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LIFEWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds SHIFT GARAGE ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA PLAINS LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN HILLS ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS TRIBAL LEADERS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FORK REAL COMMUNITY CAFE INC ↗
- Who funds PONDEROSA APARTMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE BLACK HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK HILLS WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Journey On Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ONEHEART ↗
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: Black Hills Area Community Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc · Larson Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · John T Vucurevich Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee · Adams Mastrovich Fam Fdn · Sanford Group Return
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 the Black Hills 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.