South Dakota · Nonprofit
CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION
CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION (South Dakota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $870,564 to it, the largest being SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($165,287). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $871k
- Net assets
- $8.9M
What Cornerstone Rescue Mission does
Mission
Provide shelter, food, clothing, gospel, social service referrals, and assistance to the homeless.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization served approximately 116,918 meals averaging 320 meals per day and 24,687 nights of lodging averaging 68 people per night. The Cornerstone Rescue Mission provided clothing and house wares to over 240 clients as well as other types of benevolent assistance. The organization also helped provide 234 clients with permanent housing.community transition program (ctp) is a prison re-entry program designed to help parolees reintegrate into society. Services provided include case management, shelter, food, transportation, employment search assistance and housing search assistance. The ctp program provided 13,428 nights of lodging averaging 37 people per night.
$4,899,805 spentof which $775,470 as grants$86,116 earned by the program86% of program spendingThe thrift store sells items that have been donated, such as clothing, furniture, household goods, etc. At economical prices to the public. The profits from the thrift store support the cornerstone women & children's home.in addition, a voucher process allows clients to obtain items at the store to support sustainability for their housing and employment. It also serves as a site for people from the community who choose to volunteer or are assigned community service hours.
$772,905 spent$78,762 earned by the program14% of program spendingThe cornerstone apartments provides a permanent supportive housing facility which provides a self-sufficiency program for individuals and families who are homeless and disabled. The facility consists of 24 two- and three-bedroom family units. Adult tenants meet with case managers regularly in order to achieve goals outlined in the self-sufficiency plan.
$216,704 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,672,710.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $5.9M to $9.4M (+58%).
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 28% · 2018 32% · 2019 42% · 2020 57% · 2021 47% · 2022 45% · 2023 47% · 2024 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Lysa Allison
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $50k → $117k.
9 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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: $445k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cornerstone Rescue Mission Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION raised.
From the IRS filings of CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION’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
CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
71% 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 CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 52% · 2019 69% · 2020 16% · 2021 36% · 2022 17% · 2023 26% — 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
64% of CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
71% of CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION'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 $253k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside South Dakota, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $617k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.9M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$16.2M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$655k
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 CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION?
- CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION (South Dakota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $870,564 to it, the largest being SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($165,287). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $870,564 in grants to CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION?
- SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $165,287 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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