South Dakota · Nonprofit
BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS ASSOCIATION
BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS ASSOCIATION (South Dakota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,710 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($56,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $787k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $138k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Black Hills Parks & Forests Association does
Mission
Black hills parks and forests association (bhpfa) is a non-profit cooperating partner with the national park service and u.s. Forest service. Our mission is to support wonder and exploration through steward ship of your public lands. Bhpfa supports our public land partners with their interpretive, educational, and research programs that protect and preserve the cultural and natural resources of the black hills, western nebraska, and surrounding areas. This is accomplished by operating sales outlets in public land locations throughout south dakota, wyoming, and western nebraska. Purchases from these sites expand the visitor experience beyond park and forest borders and supports interpretive, research, and education programming for our partner agencies. In addition to assisting our partners, bhpfa's secondary mission is committed to creating lifelong learning opportunities for all through our membership and education programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sales - bhpfa conducts specialty retail sales at 16 partner outlets as well as online and event sales. All products sold provide an educational or interpretive component and help area visitors take their experience beyond park and forest boundaries. Store sales are used to calculate the amount of aid funding provided to our partners. In fy2024, $99,695 was allocated to the 7 partners. Aid expenditures included jr. Ranger books and badges, interns & seasonal staff, program supplies, and exhibit costs, just to name a few. In addition to the traditional store sales, bhpfa sells items with a donation component for specific partner interpretive initiatives. In may 2024, we entered into an nps agreement allowing bhpfa to collect donations on behalf of our partners at the cash register. We are also the fiscal manager for partner grant funds. We manage 22 aid and donation accounts between our 7 public land partners and in fy2024 generated and managed close to $170,000. Events/donations/programs - bhpfa launched fee based educational programs and events in fy2024 and expanded on our membership and donation programs. Without a dedicated staff person to manage the program, membership revenue…
$453,690 spent$629,440 earned by the program71% of program spendingProgram aid and support to national parks service.
$157,070 spentof which $112,622 as grants24% of program spendingProgram aid and support to usda forest service.
$31,934 spentof which $7,090 as grants5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $642,694.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $645k to $1.3M (+101%).
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: 2019 3% · 2020 8% · 2021 30% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (18% 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.
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.
Chief executive
Patty Ressler
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $24 → $15k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS ASSOCIATION’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
BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 59% · 2023 51% — 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
BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS ASSOCIATION draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS ASSOCIATION is better cushioned than half of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS ASSOCIATION
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS ASSOCIATION?
- BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS ASSOCIATION (South Dakota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,710 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($56,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $137,710 in grants to BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $56,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS ASSOCIATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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