How much does United Way of the Black Hills give?

United Way of the Black Hills reported 37 itemized grants totaling $918,587, out of $997,016 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of the Black Hills fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Youth Development (22%), Crime & Legal (13%).

Who are United Way of the Black Hills's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Youth & Family Services Inc ($1.2M), Feeding South Dakota ($850k), Rapid City y M C A ($715k).

Does United Way of the Black Hills fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of the Black Hills?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Black Hills Area Community Foundation, South Dakota Community Foundation, Midcontinent Foundation.

Where is United Way of the Black Hills based?

United Way of the Black Hills is based in SD.

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South Dakota · 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. Currently, community-wide campaigns are conducted in rapid city, sturgis and the northern hills communities of lead, deadwood, spearfish and belle fourche, as well as the southern hills…

$997k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 37
Itemized grants FY2025: 29
Organizations funded FY2024: 7%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $919k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $90,000
Organizations funded a year: 29 to 46; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $9.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations United Way of the Black Hills funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	37	$919k	11%
FY2024	29	$895k	7%
FY2023	32	$877k	9%
FY2022	33	$1.2M	3%
FY2021	35	$1.0M	9%
FY2020	46	$1.7M	28%
FY2019	34	$1.3M	12%
FY2018	36	$1.5M	6%

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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$3.7MYouth Development$2.5MCrime & Legal$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.4MHealth$721kHousing & Shelter$474kPublic Safety & Disaster$419kArts & Culture$167kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Youth & Family Services Inc	$1,196,491	9	1%
Feeding South Dakota	$849,808	9	0%
Rapid City y M C A	$715,095	9	2%
Northern Hills Area Casa Program	$593,354	9	29%
Working Against Violence Inc	$532,040	9	7%
Wellspring Inc	$517,580	8	3%
Rapid City Club for Boys Inc	$514,815	8	4%
Western South Dakota Senior Services Inc	$430,000	9	3%
American Red Cross	$419,477	8	n/a
The Salvation Army	$350,519	8	n/a

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All grantees of United Way of the Black Hills by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Youth & Family Services Inc	$1,196,491	9	1%
Feeding South Dakota	$849,808	9	0%
Rapid City y M C A	$715,095	9	2%
Northern Hills Area Casa Program	$593,354	9	29%
Working Against Violence Inc	$532,040	9	7%
Wellspring Inc	$517,580	8	3%
Rapid City Club for Boys Inc	$514,815	8	4%
Western South Dakota Senior Services Inc	$430,000	9	3%
American Red Cross	$419,477	8	n/a
The Salvation Army	$350,519	8	n/a
Big Brothers and Big Sisters O	$336,650	6	14%
Catholic Social Services	$294,896	9	n/a
Rural America Initiatives	$280,828	8	1%
Community Health Center of the Black Hills	$275,249	7	1%
Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota	$239,350	8	0%
Black Hills Area Habitat for Humanity	$230,844	9	2%
West River Transit Authority Inc Dba Prairie Hills Transit	$215,730	9	1%
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Black Hills	$202,912	7	25%
Rushmore Consumer Credit Resource Center	$198,633	9	6%
Helpline Center Inc	$178,947	9	1%
Early Childhood Connections	$166,877	6	3%
Girl Scouts - Dakota Horizons	$157,548	6	1%
Black Hills Area Council Inc Boy Scouts of America 695	$153,616	5	6%
Victims of Violence Intervention	$141,112	9	5%
7th Circuit Court Appointed Special Advocate Program	$132,138	9	7%
Lifeways Inc	$119,249	7	3%
Volunteers of America Northern Rockies	$97,000	6	0%
Crisis Intervention Shelter	$90,255	9	n/a
Shift Garage	$82,500	3	7%
Dakota Plains Legal Services	$80,933	5	1%
Black Hills Special Services Cooperative	$77,668	4	n/a
Northern Hills Alliance for Children	$65,000	1	8%
Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health	$58,550	2	0%
Fork Real Community Cafe Inc	$56,200	5	3%
Ponderosa Apartments Inc	$53,392	5	1%
Neighborhood Housing Services of the Black Hills Inc	$51,306	5	1%
Black Hills Works Inc	$50,200	4	0%
Journey On Inc	$50,000	3	2%
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society	$48,985	4	0%
Oneheart	$48,100	5	1%
Nami South Dakota	$45,000	2	9%
Friends of the Children - He Sapa	$44,000	2	3%
Minneluzahan Senior Center	$42,723	4	9%
Core Community Organized Resources for Education	$42,000	3	10%
The Lost and Found Association	$35,000	2	2%
Ellsworth Airman & Fam Readiness Ct	$34,740	4	n/a
God Is Faithful Movement Inc	$34,423	2	n/a
Custer School District	$34,364	3	n/a
Adult Day Center of the Black Hills	$30,000	1	n/a
Western Dakota Vocational Technical Foundation Inc	$24,950	1	1%
Western Resources for Independ	$22,083	2	1%
Senior Citizens Inc	$22,000	2	4%
Action for Betterment of Community	$18,888	2	2%
Ellsworth Youth Center	$18,000	2	n/a
Front Porch Coalition	$17,181	2	n/a
Meade County Senior Citizens Center Association	$16,205	2	8%
Abbott House Inc	$9,000	1	0%
Kids Club Kids	$8,300	1	2%
Western South Dakota Community Action Agency	$8,000	1	0%
Lakota Wellness Society Inc	$7,500	1	n/a
Belle Fourche Senior Citizens Center	$7,500	1	n/a
Harmony Childcare and Preschool	$7,426	1	n/a
Spearfish United Methodist Church	$7,000	1	n/a
Empowered	$6,000	1	2%
City of Sturgis	$6,000	1	n/a
National Senior Corps Association	$5,495	1	n/a

United Way of the Black Hills supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 49.

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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.

Black Hills Area Community FoundationSD69.4× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About United Way of the Black Hills

How much does United Way of the Black Hills give?: United Way of the Black Hills reported 37 itemized grants totaling $918,587, out of $997,016 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United Way of the Black Hills fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Youth Development (22%), Crime & Legal (13%).
Who are United Way of the Black Hills's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Youth & Family Services Inc ($1.2M), Feeding South Dakota ($850k), Rapid City y M C A ($715k).
Does United Way of the Black Hills fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of the Black Hills?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Black Hills Area Community Foundation, South Dakota Community Foundation, Midcontinent Foundation.
Where is United Way of the Black Hills based?: United Way of the Black Hills is based in SD.