South Dakota · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA (South Dakota) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,622,383 to it, the largest being SIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC ($7,429,440). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $46M
What Children's Home Society of South Dakota does
Mission
Children's Home Society of South Dakota is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing trauma-informed services to children and families impacted by abuse, neglect, domestic violence, and mental health challenges. Our mission is to serve children with special needs and their families, and individuals of all ages who have experienced abuse or domestic violence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Our newest program, the outpatient therapy clinic, provides accessible mental health services for children, youth, and adults impacted by trauma or emotional challenges. Services include psychiatry, individual therapy, family counseling, and trauma-focused interventions. We serve clients regardless of income, offering a sliding fee scale and accepting medicaid to ensure affordability and equity in access.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
We provide intensive therapeutic care and special education services for children aged 4-14 in rapid city and sioux falls, sd. These children often have complex emotional and behavioral needs stemming from trauma, abuse, or neglect. Our goal is to empower them toward healing and growth while strengthening the families who support them. In fy 2025, 270 children and youth were served.
$19,802,873 spent$17,408,759 earned by the program66% of program spendingOur shelter serves victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, and child abuse. We offer emergency housing, safety planning, and advocacy for individuals and families in crisis. In fy 2025, the shelter provided emergency refuge to 1,342 adults and children, and 3,108 individuals received crisis intervention services.
$6,097,773 spent$225,150 earned by the program20% of program spendingWe support first-time mothers during pregnancy and the early years of parenting through nurse home visits that promote physical health, mental well-being, and strong parent-child bonding. In fy 2025, bright start served 276 families with home visitation services. Eight nurses completed 2,540 visits with the mothers.
$1,106,247 spent$932,045 earned by the program4% of program spendingChs is a licensed child placement agency. We recruit, train and support therapeutic foster and adoptive families for children who cannot safely remain in their homes. In fy 2025, chs served 48 children. We provide forensic interviews and trauma assessments for children involved in abuse investigations, supporting their path to justice and recovery. In fy 2025, the chcac performed forensic interviews for 351 children. We educate professionals, caregivers, and youth through evidence-based prevention programming to end the cycle of abuse. Chs provided training for 3,014 adults and youth through our prevention, training, and education program.
$3,087,736 spent$412,022 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,094,629.
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 $45M to $58M (+28%).
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 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 7% · 2021 32% · 2022 19% · 2023 7% · 2024 5% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Michelle Lavallee
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.2M.
16 of 64 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $52M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Children's Home Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA raised.
From the IRS filings of CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 55% · 2019 78% · 2020 77% · 2021 75% · 2022 48% · 2023 57% — 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
61% of CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
87% of CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA'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. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA has grown faster than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33k on record.
- Department of the Interior$31k
- Department of Justice$2k
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 CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Children's Home Foundation · exempt
- Hayward Memorial Testamentary Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA?
- CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA (South Dakota) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,622,383 to it, the largest being SIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC ($7,429,440). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $13,622,383 in grants to CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA?
- SIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,429,440 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA 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.
Play a game about who funds Children's Home Society of South Dakota →
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 64 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