South Dakota · Nonprofit
CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY
CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY (South Dakota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,388,172 to it, the largest being Delta Dental of South Dakota ($625,820). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $622k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $956k
What Capital Area United Way does
Mission
Receiving and distributing charitable donations to local agencies
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide for mutual participation in the funding, planning and delivery of needed social services for the area by conducting an annual united appeal to raise funds, then allocating and distributing funds in an equitable manner.
$392,132 spentof which $339,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $392,132.
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 2023 to 2024, from $322k to $817k (+154%).
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.
98% of CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $117k → $164k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY’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
CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 56% · 2019 50% · 2020 49% · 2021 52% · 2022 46% · 2023 48% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY's grant income comes from South Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $682k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY: 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 CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY?
- CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY (South Dakota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,388,172 to it, the largest being Delta Dental of South Dakota ($625,820). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,388,172 in grants to CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY?
- Delta Dental of South Dakota is the largest funder on record, with $625,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing