South Dakota · Private foundation
Valley Queen Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $556k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 79
- Grants FY2025
- 63
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $107,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 71
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Valley Queen Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 77 | $535k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 63 | $752k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $777k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 71 | $582k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $1.1M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $136k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $165k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 60 | $305k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Milbank | $1,225,047 | 7 | n/a |
| Milbank High School Educational Foundation Inc | $326,207 | 8 | 18% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of South Dakota & Montana | $100,200 | 8 | 1% |
| Leadership South Dakota | $87,808 | 8 | 4% |
| Bulldog Booster Club | $74,674 | 5 | 25% |
| Special Olympics South Dakota Inc | $69,955 | 6 | 1% |
| South Dakota State University Foundation | $63,665 | 7 | 0% |
| Building Our Families | $53,450 | 3 | 18% |
| Central Plains Dairy Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 11% |
| South Dakota Agriculture and Rural Leadership Foundation | $36,000 | 3 | 4% |
Show all 123 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 77 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Valley Queen Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 96 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sanford Group Return · Avera Health · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · Larson Foundation · Watertown Area Community Foundation · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Watertown Area United Way Inc
How this is measured
Compare Valley Queen Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Valley Queen Charitable Foundation
- How much does Valley Queen Charitable Foundation give?
- Valley Queen Charitable Foundation reported 79 grants totaling $556,339 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 71 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Valley Queen Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (25%), Philanthropy (23%), Education (19%).
- Who are Valley Queen Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: City of Milbank ($1.2M), Milbank High School Educational Foundation Inc ($326k), Make-A-Wish Foundation of South Dakota & Montana ($100k).
- Does Valley Queen Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Valley Queen Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Valley Queen Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc, Midcontinent Foundation.
- Where is Valley Queen Charitable Foundation based?
- Valley Queen Charitable Foundation is based in SD.
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