South Dakota · Nonprofit
BILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
BILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (South Dakota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,023 to it, the largest being SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($7,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $148k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Billie Sutton Leadership Institute does
Mission
The organizations primary exempt purpose: charitable and educational purposes the non-partisan Billie Sutton Leadership Institute is dedicated to inspiring and preparing the next generation of leaders to build a stronger south dakota and more vibrant communities and workplaces through service to others.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Not described on the e-filed return.
$83,760 spent58% of program spendingEducational leadership training seminar discussion groups, forums, panels, and lectures are utilized to carry out two multiple-day in-person leadership training seminars as part of the institute's programming. Education is advanced through the gathering of 17 participants for leadership training and educational and cultural activities. The 2025 leadership training seminar dates were may 16 18, 2025 and october 3 5, 2025. Hundreds of south dakotans have benefited from the project management and leadership skills gained by the participants at these seminars.
$36,649 spent25% of program spendingEducational leadership training programing & presentations program services accomplishment were achieved by providing educational leadership training programing and presentations. Science and education are advanced by the training and learning opportunities presented by experts in their fields. Technology was utilized to provide a course of instruction by correspondence among participants throughout the state. More than 7 speakers presented virtually and taught 33 participants in their areas of expertise. Eleven educational presentations were conducted through digital video conferences held throughout the year.
$24,101 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $144,510.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $26k to $72k (+180%).
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.
99% of BILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $5k → $244.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 BILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE’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
BILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 69% · 2022 87% · 2023 61% — diversifying over time.
“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
64% of BILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside South Dakota, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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
BILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE has grown faster than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
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.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE?
- BILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (South Dakota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,023 to it, the largest being SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($7,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $21,023 in grants to BILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE?
- SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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