· Public charity
United Way of Vermillion
Uniting people and resources to build a stronger community.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAIN STREET CENTER | $16,000 |
| Southeast Public Transit | $13,000 |
| Southeast CASA Program | $12,000 |
| USD Vucurevich Children's Center | $12,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Vermillion | $10,000 |
| Dollywood Foundation | $8,838 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Clay & Yankton Counties | $7,500 |
| USD Scottish Rite Speech & Hearing Clinic | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of United Way of Vermillion’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in SD; by stated purpose, 86%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FVFEEDING VERMILLION6× · 2019–2025 · $71k · revenue +1%
- SCSENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES OF VERMILL6× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +88%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $64k · revenue +174%
Funded once
- VFVermillion Food Pantryone grant, 2022 · $24k
- VCVUCUREVICH CHILDREN'S CENTERone grant, 2018 · $9k
- VFVERMILLION FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
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.
To provide training and assistance to shelters for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Perform forensic interviews on minor children in response to calls from either the Department of Children and Family Services or law enforcement, regarding potential abuse of the child. The Center works as an advocate for the child with…
Child abuse awareness and prevention
SOS is a nonprofit agency that empowers and advocates for adults or children affected by sexual and domestic violence, stalking, human trafficking, child abuse and neglect. This work is done through four programs - Crisis Services, CASA of…
To provide trained community volunteers to aid in making decisions in ocourt about abused and neglected children's lives
To serve and enhance the lives of older people and their families in Southwest Kansas.
The purpose of the corporation is to provide food and meals to those in need.
Provide transportation to handicapped individuals and senior citizens.
Provide safe, affordable childcare to the area.
To provide a broad spectrum of mental health services to residents of south dakota
Provide mental health counseling to needy families and persons in south central Oklahoma
Assist individuals and families experiencing domestic abuse and sexual assault by providing crisis intervention and a full range of support services. second chance also works to emplower the community to understand and prevent the crimes…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FEEDING VERMILLION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES OF VERMILL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SAFE OPTIONS SVCS ↗
- Who funds Sesdac Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST CASA PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds RURAL OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Yankton Transit Inc dba Southeast Public Transit ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF YANKTON COUNTY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Vermillion funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Vermillion. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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