How much did UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 100% of UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION’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

studentmedicaleducation

2019

aalslegaldiversityexcellencemedicalfoster

2020

—

2021

—

2022

—

2023

studentmedicaleducation

2024

studentmedicaleducation

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

03FY2024 · 6 grants

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

$17,750

Median grant

States reached

$367M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$144M · 5 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +101% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$144M

$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%

+26%

Still filing today

80%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalOther

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

VC
VERMILLION CHAMBER & DEVELOPMENT
8× · 2017–2024 · $317k · revenue +146%
SD
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
3× · 2018–2024 · $103k · revenue +62%
BH
BLACK HILLS PLAYHOUSE
6× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +101%

Funded once

TF
THE FUND FOR ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCHgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $56k · revenue +355%
SD
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $24k · revenue +26%
AO
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS
one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +5%

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.

University of South Dakota Foundation

Provide private resources to benefit the university of south dakota.

Education

South Dakota State University Foundation

Uniting the dreams of our students, university, and donors to build a better sdsu.

Education

South Dakota Dental Association

Improving the dental profession

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South Dakota Foundation for Medical Care

Collaborate with partners to improve health outcomes.

Health

South Dakota Achieve

Provide support services to people with developmental disabilities.

Human Services

South Dakota Association of

Rural water development in south dakota

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State Bar of South Dakota

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.

—

Sanford School of Medicine of the

Common paymaster for university of south dakota sanford school of medicine residents.

Education

South Dakota State University Alumni

Foster loyalty and fellowship among South Dakota State University Alumni, Faculty, Students and Former Students.

Education

South Dakota Biotechnology Association

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.

Community Improvement

South Dakota Military Heritage Alliance

The purpose of this corporation is to provide support services, encouragement, camaraderie, entertainment and esprit de corps for military veterans, active duty servicemembers, actively-serving Reserve Component (i.e. Reserve and National…

Public Benefit

South Dakota Dental Foundation

The mission of the south dakota dental foundation is to improve the oral health of all south dakotans by educating dental professionals; by educating the public; by aiding in developing the future dental workforce; and, by serving…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Dakota State Medical 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.

05the grantee network

8 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)

8/8

Grantees still filing

7/8

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$143,939,394Arts & Culture$161,428Education$111,481Health$56,285International$6,000

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation 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.

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

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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: SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +62% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 466012680 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 SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION, 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 6 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 22% 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 University of South Dakota Foundation?

Find your warmest path to University of South Dakota Foundation 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.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION

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

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to University of South Dakota Foundation?

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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION

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

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to University of South Dakota Foundation?

More from the funding graph