South Dakota · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA (South Dakota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,501,657 to it, the largest being SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,413,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Children's Museum of South Dakota does
Program
The museum provides interactive educational experiences that promote learning through play for children and their grownups, families, and caregivers. Direct charitable activities include operating hands-on exhibits and educational activities and providing camps, field trips, outreach activities, community partnerships, access to play initiatives, and special events. These servicesimpact more than 100,000 participants annually and foster healthy child development, socio-emotional well-being, problem solving, creativity, exploration, relationship building, community connection, and lifelong learning.
$2,451,935 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $8.5M to $7.8M (−8%).
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
Kate Treiber
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $766k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA’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
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 71% · 2020 50% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $89k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from South Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA's revenue grew 27% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA?
- CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA (South Dakota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,501,657 to it, the largest being SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,413,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $3,501,657 in grants to CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA?
- SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,413,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 7 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