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Van Buskirk Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFESCAPE FOUNDATION | $26,667 |
| FRIENDS OF SOUTH DAKOTA PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $25,542 |
| SDSU FOUNDATION | $17,850 |
| ABBOT HOUSE | $15,000 |
| FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA | $11,500 |
| MCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| FORWARD SIOUX FALLS | $5,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| BREAD BREAK | $3,000 |
| LIFELINE CHILDRENS SERVICES | $2,500 |
| SIOUX FALLS AREA CASA PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| KIWANIS CLUB OF SF | $2,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $2,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SD | $2,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- LFLIFESCAPE FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $43k · revenue -21%
- SDSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $36k · revenue 0%
- FOFriends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting2× · 2024–2025 · $27k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- SFSIOUX FALLS ZOO & AQUARIUMone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- EREAST RIVER FOSTER PARENT NETWORK THE FOSTER NETWORKone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -20%
- SCSIOUX COUNCIL BSA #733one grant, 2024 · $2k
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 provide food, clothing, toys and other miscellaneous items to families in need.
Sd voices for peace provides five programming areas to assist vulnerable communities access services throughout the state: legal services, multilingual outreach, training and education, advocacy and civic engagement and rapid response.
End hunger together.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
In partnership with donors, sioux falls area community foundation (sfacf) provides philanthropic leadership that assures the quality of life in our area, for good, for ever.the community foundation cultivates philanthropy by inspiring new…
To collaboratively create quality economic growth and workforce development in sioux falls.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
To offer leadership, involvement and support; encouraging the membership to professionally achieve their goals and serve all in the spirit of the golden rule.
Empowering people to live their best life.vision statement:lifescape will be an innovative organization, providing exceptional services and creative solutions for people with varied needs and complex care across their life span. this is…
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The mission of face it together sioux falls is to get drug and alcohol addiction sufferers well.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding South Dakota and the most unlike its peers is Bread Break. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 LIFESCAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting ↗
- Who funds MCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOUSE OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS ZOO & AQUARIUM ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA CASA PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD BREAK ↗
- Who funds FACE IT TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EAST RIVER FOSTER PARENT NETWORK THE FOSTER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PAVILION MANAGEMENT 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: Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · South Dakota Community Foundation · Avera Health · Sanford Group Return · Midcontinent Foundation · The Robert and Rita Elmen Foundation · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · Levo Cares Foundation · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Greg and Pam Sands Foundation
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 Van Buskirk Family 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.
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