· Public charity
University of South Dakota Foundation
To provide private resources for the university of south dakota to increase the excellence of its students' educational experience.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
- $250k+1 grant · $27M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $26,522,121 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $26,332 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $17,750 |
| VERMILLION AREA CHAMBER & DEVELOPMENT COMPANY | $15,000 |
| BLACK HILLS PLAYHOUSE | $11,476 |
| DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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 +110% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- VAVERMILLION AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY8× · 2017–2024 · $317k · revenue +91%
- SDSOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2024 · $103k · revenue +141%
- TBTHE BLACK HILLS PLAYHOUSE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- FFFUND FOR ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $56k · revenue +251% · 30% of their budget
- SDSOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $24k · revenue +13%
- AOASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INCone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +13%
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.
To promote and protect quality education and all education employees.
Common paymaster for university of south dakota sanford school of medicine residents.
Foster loyalty and fellowship among South Dakota State University Alumni, Faculty, Students and Former Students.
Direct and coordinate interscholastic activities for member schools.
The purpose of the state bar of sd is to obtain the cooperation of all the practicing lawyers in the state in the better administration of justice, and in maintaining a high standard of professional conduct at the bar.
Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.
It is the mission of the south dakota dental association to promote the art and science of dentistry and the oral health of the public; educate the public on the benefits of quality preventative and restorative dentistry as provided by the…
A south dakota alliance dedicated to the development of biotechnology industries through expansion of bio-based research, investment, education, advocacy, funding, education, infrastructure development, and promotion.
Carry out charitable & educational purposes of sdga
To represent the pharmacy profession. profession.
Promote excellence in health care and the betterment of the health of south dakotans and for all of the people of the united states of america.
Rural water development in south dakota
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Dakota State Medical Association and the most unlike its peers is Association of American Law Schools Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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 VERMILLION AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK HILLS PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization University of South Dakota Foundation 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.