How do I find funders for a crime and legal nonprofit in South Dakota?

Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in South Dakota, currently Legal Services Corporation, Sioux Empire United Way Inc, Novo Foundation. Then look at who funds the crime and legal 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 crime and legal in South Dakota?

$31M reached 42 crime and legal organizations in South Dakota, from 104 funders. 31% 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 · Crime and legal

Who funds crime and legal in South Dakota

One funder dominates the giving, Legal Services Corporation, at 51% of the total. Funding is concentrated: Dakota Plains Legal Services alone draws 41% of every crime and legal grant dollar in South Dakota.

$31M

granted

organizations

31%

from in-state

The short version

104 funders gave $31M to 42 crime and legal organizations in South Dakota across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
31% of that came from funders also based in South Dakota; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of crime and legal in South Dakota is Legal Services Corporation, at $16M.
The crime and legal organization drawing the most is Dakota Plains Legal Services, at $12M.

Largest funders of crime and legal in South Dakota

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

1Legal Services Corporation$16M 2Sioux Empire United Way Inc$2M 3Novo Foundation$2M 4United Way of the Black Hills$1M 5Larson Foundation$1M 6COUP Council$1M 7South Dakota Bar Foundation$792k 8South Dakota Community Foundation$756k 9Tides Foundation$650k 10Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc$631k

Crime and legal organizations in South Dakota that draw the most

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

Dakota Plains Legal Services$12M

32 other crime and legal organizations$4M

East River Legal Services Corporation$4M The Compass Center$2M White Buffalo Calf Women Society Inc$1M Working Against Violence Inc$1M

How to find crime and legal funders in South Dakota

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Start with the funders already active in South Dakota
The funders giving the most to crime and legal in South Dakota are Legal Services Corporation, Sioux Empire United Way Inc, Novo Foundation. A funder already writing crime and legal checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the crime and legal 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
69% of crime and legal money in South Dakota comes from funders elsewhere, so national crime and legal funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in South Dakota.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a crime and legal nonprofit in South Dakota?: Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in South Dakota, currently Legal Services Corporation, Sioux Empire United Way Inc, Novo Foundation. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into South Dakota from out of state.
Who is the largest crime and legal funder in South Dakota?: Legal Services Corporation gives the most to crime and legal organizations in South Dakota, $16M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to crime and legal in South Dakota?: $31M reached 42 crime and legal organizations in South Dakota, from 104 funders. 31% 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 endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

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.