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University of South Dakota Foundation

To provide private resources for the university of south dakota to increase the excellence of its students' educational experience.

$27M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$27M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$144MCommunity Improvement$317kHealth$183kArts & Culture$161kCrime & Legal$9kInternational$6k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
  • $250k+1 grant · $27M
$17,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$367M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS: $9k → 14%THE FUND FOR ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $56k → 9%DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $14k → 10%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $26.5M → 20%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $50k → 9%DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME: $20k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $24.7M → 20%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $27k → 9%DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 10%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME: $12k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $18.9M → 20%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $26k → 9%DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 10%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $28k → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME: $10k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $16.1M → 20%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (SDSME): $24k → 9%DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 10%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $15.4M → 20%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $6k → 9%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $24k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $15.4M → 20%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $18k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $13.4M → 20%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $12.9M → 20%VERMILLION AREA CHAMBER & DEVELOPMENT COMPANY: $166k → 20%VERMILLION CHAMBER & DEVELOPMENT: $46k → 20%VERMILLION AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $25k → 20%VERMILLION CHAMBER & DEVELOPMENT: $21k → 20%VERMILLION AREA CHAMBER & DEVELOPMENT COMPANY: $15k → 20%VERMILLION AREA CHAMBER & DEVELOPMENT COMPANY: $15k → 20%VERMILLION AREA CHAMBER & DEVELOPMENT COMPANY: $15k → 20%VERMILLION AREA CHAMBER & DEVELOPMENT COMPANY: $15k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$144M · 5 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +110% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$144M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+110%
+44%

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.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • VA
    VERMILLION AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $317k · revenue +91%
  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2024 · $103k · revenue +209%
  • TB
    THE BLACK HILLS PLAYHOUSE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • FF
    FUND FOR ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $56k · revenue +251% · 30% of their budget
  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $24k · revenue +13%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +13%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
South Dakota Education Association

To promote and protect quality education and all education employees.

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2
Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota Residency Cor

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

Education
3
South Dakota High School Activities Association

Direct and coordinate interscholastic activities for member schools.

Environment
4
South Dakota Retailers Association

Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.

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5
Sd Academy of Family Physicians

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.

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6
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.

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7
South Dakota Pharmacists Association

To represent the pharmacy profession. profession.

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8
South Dakota Dental Association

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…

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9
South Dakota Golf Association Junior Golf Foundation

Carry out charitable & educational purposes of sdga

Youth Development
10
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
11
South Dakota Association of Rural Water Systems

Rural water development in south dakota

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12
South Dakota State University Alumni Association

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Dakota State Medical Association; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $143,598,039 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY+2 more: $341,355 · OtherTHE BLACK HILLS PLAYHOUSE INC: $94,428 · Arts & CultureSOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME: $67,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $102,706 · EducationASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC: $8,775 · EducationFUND FOR ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $56,285 · HealthJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $6,000 · International
Other$143,939,394Arts & Culture$161,428Education$111,481Health$56,285International$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVERMILLION AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY: $317,065 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $102,706 over 3y, 22% of budgetTHE BLACK HILLS PLAYHOUSE INC: $94,428 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME: $67,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetFUND FOR ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $56,285 over 1y, 30% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $24,290 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC: $8,775 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization University of South Dakota Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University of South Dakota Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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