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BLACK HILLS SKI TEAM

BLACK HILLS SKI TEAM (South Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,705 to it, the largest being First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$55k
Revenue FY2018
2
Funders on record
$3k
Grants received
$66k
Net assets
1/2 repeat funders

Against its field

BLACK HILLS SKI TEAM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,019 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,019 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2018

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $87 → $36.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)8% 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 SKI TEAM’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 SKI TEAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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

92%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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

BLACK HILLS SKI TEAM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 1 state in all.

MT

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BLACK HILLS SKI TEAM

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In South Dakota

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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 BLACK HILLS SKI TEAM: 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 BLACK HILLS SKI TEAM?
BLACK HILLS SKI TEAM (South Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,705 to it, the largest being First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLACK HILLS SKI TEAM have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,705 in grants to BLACK HILLS SKI TEAM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLACK HILLS SKI TEAM?
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLACK HILLS SKI TEAM 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 FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing