How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in South Dakota?

Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in South Dakota, currently The Bush Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Freedom Together Foundation. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into South Dakota from out of state.

How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in South Dakota?

$168M reached 27 civil rights and advocacy organizations in South Dakota, from 242 funders. 1% came from funders also based in South Dakota.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · South Dakota · Civil rights and advocacy

Who funds civil rights and advocacy in South Dakota

Funding is concentrated: Ndn Collective Inc alone draws 93% of every civil rights and advocacy grant dollar in South Dakota. Most of it comes from outside South Dakota: only 1% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here.

$168M

granted

organizations

from in-state

The short version

242 funders gave $168M to 27 civil rights and advocacy organizations in South Dakota across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
1% of that came from funders also based in South Dakota; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of civil rights and advocacy in South Dakota is The Bush Foundation, at $51M.
The civil rights and advocacy organization drawing the most is Ndn Collective Inc, at $157M.

Largest funders of civil rights and advocacy in South Dakota

The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in South Dakota, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1The Bush Foundation$51M 2National Philanthropic Trust$21M 3Freedom Together Foundation$10M 4Blue Meridian Partners Inc$6M 5The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation$6M 6John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation$6M 7The Ford Foundation$5M 8Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$5M 9Surdna Foundation Inc$5M 10The Skoll Foundation$4M

Civil rights and advocacy organizations in South Dakota that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

Ndn Collective Inc$157M

How to find civil rights and advocacy funders in South Dakota

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Start with the funders already active in South Dakota
The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy in South Dakota are The Bush Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Freedom Together Foundation. A funder already writing civil rights and advocacy checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
99% of civil rights and advocacy money in South Dakota comes from funders elsewhere, so national civil rights and advocacy funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in South Dakota.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in South Dakota?: Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in South Dakota, currently The Bush Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Freedom Together Foundation. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into South Dakota from out of state.
Who is the largest civil rights and advocacy funder in South Dakota?: The Bush Foundation gives the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in South Dakota, $51M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in South Dakota?: $168M reached 27 civil rights and advocacy organizations in South Dakota, from 242 funders. 1% came from funders also based in South Dakota.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.