South Dakota · Nonprofit
CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC
CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,655,951 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,090,430). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc does
Mission
The cheyenne river youth project the project, a youth and family services organization established in 1988, is integral to the cheyenne river reservations support system in eagle butte, south dakota. The project is a grassroots initiative tailored to meet the needs of the
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth development, including many activities for youth on the reservation on our 5 acre campus, which is comprised of educational and recreational spaces that offer safe spaces for children ages 4-18 mentored by staff and volunteers. The main youth center, for ages 4-12, offers active areas, a commercial kitchen to serve daily meals and snacks, an art room and library in addition to volunteer living quarters. The cokata wiconi teen center services youth, ages 13-18, and within the facility offers a dance studio, gymnasium and fitness center, library, classrooms, computer lab and art studio, in addition to volunteer living quarters and office spaces. This facility is also home to the keya cafe coffee shop and the keya gift shop. The winyan toka garden is a 3 acre naturally grown garden and the waniyetu wowapi
Families can purchase annual memberships which allow access to emergengy hygiene and household products. Families may qualify for cleaning supplies, furniture, clothing, school supplies and diapers.
$1,299,443 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,299,443.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.8M to $7.0M (+82%).
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: 2017 25% · 2018 8% · 2019 3% · 2021 8% · 2022 7% · 2023 3% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Julie Garreau
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $644k → $2.6M.
17 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 funders by total. 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
CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
46% 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 CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 31% · 2019 25% · 2020 20% · 2021 67% · 2022 48% · 2023 38% — growing more concentrated.
“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
58% of CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $460k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$300k
- Department of Agriculture$105k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$55k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC?
- CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,655,951 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,090,430). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $11,655,951 in grants to CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,090,430 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC 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 70 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