South Dakota · Nonprofit
ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC
ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $718,066 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($667,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $649k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $718k
- Net assets
- $315k
What Arts South Dakota Inc does
Mission
Arts south dakota improves the lives of south dakotans as a catalyst for creative and artistic expression in communities and schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Arts south dakota improves the lives of south dakotans as a catalyst for creative and artistic expression in communities and schools. South dakota, as a state and a people, encourages the development of artistic talent in all individuals and values the worth of creative expression to the quality of life of its citizens and to the economic, social and educational growth of its communities. South dakotans have opportunities to participate in the arts in their own communities and to experience the work of professional artists in their communities or region. All south dakota children have the opportunity to experience and participate in art forms that enhance life-long learning by expanding curiosity, creativity, team-building skills and self-worth.
$626,220 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $626,220.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $872k to $341k (−61%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 77% · 2018 72% · 2019 62% · 2020 63% · 2021 43% · 2022 70% · 2023 60% · 2024 58% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Rodney Garnett
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $160k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $138k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$138k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC?
- ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $718,066 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($667,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $718,066 in grants to ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC?
- THE BUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $667,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing