· Private foundation
Valley Queen Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k63 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF MILBANK | $107,750 |
| MILBANK SCHOOL DISTRICT | $88,550 |
| MILBANK HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $53,348 |
| BUILDING OUR FAMILIES | $30,250 |
| ABBEY OF THE HILLS INN AND RETREAT CENTER | $28,100 |
| LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC | $15,205 |
| LEADERSHIP SOUTH DAKOTA | $15,100 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $15,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $13,500 |
| JOY RANCH OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $11,500 |
| SAINT LAWRENCE PARISH OF GRANT COUNTY | $10,700 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,540 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSIT OF WATERTOWN SISSETON INC | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
108 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- MHMILBANK HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $326k · revenue +466%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA8× · 2018–2025 · $100k · revenue +36%
- LSLEADERSHIP SOUTH DAKOTA8× · 2018–2025 · $88k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- NSNORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERone grant, 2018 · $105k
- SASD AGRICULTURAL & RURAL LEADERSHIPone grant, 2019 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $12k
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.
Rural water development in south dakota
Foster loyalty and fellowship among South Dakota State University Alumni, Faculty, Students and Former Students.
The function of the north dakota university system foundation is to support, enrich, advance and improve higher education in the state of north dakota, and to assist its students, faculty and staff.
Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.
The south dakota state medical association is devoted to promoting the art and science of medicine; protecting and improving the health of the public; and providing leadership and advocacy in the filed of quality healthcare.
The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.
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.
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of South Dakota & Montana and the most unlike its peers is The Greater Sd Eduction and Research Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
102 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. 102 of the 204 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Milbank Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MILBANK HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds BULLDOG BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PLAINS DAIRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds It Only Takes A Spark ↗
- Who funds GLACIAL LAKES MULTICULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ABBEY OF THE HILLS INN AND RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - RIVER FALLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE COUNCIL OF GRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Community Transit of Watertown Sisseton Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOY RANCH OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds EAST-CENTRAL COURT APPOINTED SPECIA ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Valley Queen Charitable 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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