South Dakota · Nonprofit
Building Our Families
Building Our Families (South Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,050 to it, the largest being VALLEY QUEEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($53,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $172k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Building Our Families does
Mission
Support families in need
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
To support families in need - BOOST
$62,828 spent72% of program spendingRachels Hope
$24,579 spent28% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,407.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Terri Mielitz
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Building Our Families’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
Building Our Families 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
“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
92% of Building Our Families's grant income comes from South Dakota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Building Our Families receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $58k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Building Our Families
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
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 Building Our Families: 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 Building Our Families?
- Building Our Families (South Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,050 to it, the largest being VALLEY QUEEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($53,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Building Our Families have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $58,050 in grants to Building Our Families, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Building Our Families?
- VALLEY QUEEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $53,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Building Our Families 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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