How much did UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS grant in FY2024?

UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS reported 29 grants totaling $946,211 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS based?

UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS is based in SD.

UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS

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· Public charity

UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS

We unite people and resources to improve lives in the black hills by delivering measurable, long-term solutions to community issues in education, financial stability, and health.

$946k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$110k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

social recreationalellsworthboy scoutscitizensdisabledequal accessability

2019

boy scoutslowcharterscoutinggirlscourageadolescent

2020

clientjourneytriballossboy scoutsboys girlscharter

2021

boy scoutsfoodcharterscoutinggirlscouragetraining

2022

foodlowaftersummertrainingadolescentmental

2023

tribaljourneypreventativefreshmanimpactlossmental

2024

impactpreventativefreshmanfoodaffordablepreventiontraining

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k23 grants · $503k
$50k–250k5 grants · $383k

$22,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA$110,000
YFS INC$103,000
MEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN SD$70,000
RAPID CITY CLUB FOR BOYS$50,000
WORKING AGAINST VIOLENCE INC$50,000
YMCA$49,500
COURT-APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES$45,000
SHIFT GARAGE$40,000
PRAIRIE HILLS TRANSIT$29,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE BH$29,000
RURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES$25,000
COURT-APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES$25,000
LIFEWAYS$23,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HE SAPA$22,000
SALVATION ARMY OF THE BLACK HILLS$22,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.8M · 51 repeat orgs$178k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.8M

$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+64%

Still filing today

80%

56%

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 ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHealthFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther

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

FS
FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA
8× · 2017–2024 · $760k · revenue +36%
Y
YMCA
8× · 2017–2024 · $679k · revenue +7%
CS
COURT-APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES
8× · 2017–2024 · $568k · revenue +36% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

NH
NORTHERN HILLS ALLIANCE FOR CHILDRE
one grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue -19%
WD
WESTERN DAKOTA TECH FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +64%
AH
ABBOTT HOUSEgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +111%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Southeastern North Dakota Community

Assistance to low-income individuals in a six county area of north dakota.

Human Services

Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health

Community Counseling Services

Treat chemical dependency and mental illness.

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South Dakota Coalition Ending Domestic and Sexual Violence

To provide training and assistance to shelters for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

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Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic

Through a collective voice, the wcadvsa is committed to provide leadership, education, and systems advocacy to advance social change and end violence.

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West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services

Ne South Dakota Community

The organization was formed to reduce poverty, revitalize low-income communities, and empower low-income individuals and families to become self sufficient.

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Community Action Region Vi

Assist low income, elderly, & disabled individuals in a nine county area.

Housing & Shelter

Prairie Harvest Mental Health

We promote independence and an enhanced quality of life for adults with serious mental illness.

Human Services

Lakes and Prairies Community

To eliminate poverty by empowering families and engaging communities.

Human Services

West Central Minnesota Communities

Empowering people while providing services and resources that impact individuals and communities.

Community Improvement

South Dakota Association of

Rural water development in south dakota

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Hills Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/62

the rest of the field

80/1,007

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.

05the grantee network

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/48

Grantees still filing

36/48

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,191,920Human Services$1,950,536Food & Nutrition$801,008Youth Development$758,612Civil Rights$665,492Housing & Shelter$340,642Community Improvement$280,828

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.

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.

Black Hills Area CommunitySD71× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Black Hills Area Community · South Dakota Community Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc · Larson Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community · Sanford Group Return · American Gift Fund · Dakota Charitable Foundation Inc · Adams Mastrovich Fam Fdn

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COURT-APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~22 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 460399483 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COURT-APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 22 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 29% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of the Black Hills?

Find your warmest path to United Way of the Black Hills through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of the Black Hills?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of the Black Hills?

More from the funding graph