South Dakota · Nonprofit
DAKOTA SONSHINE
DAKOTA SONSHINE (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $122 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($122). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $113k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $122
- Net assets
- $289k
What Dakota Sonshine does
Mission
Dakota Sonshine provides a network of support that addresses the spiritual, emotional and pragmatic needs of individuals and families on the Lake Traverse Reservation.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Church services: 40 plus families benefit from weekly church services including worship and teaching throughout the year.
$16,139 spent69% of program spendingApproximately 100 families benefitted from efforts and gifts due to work and mission teams. This included distribution of winter coats and blankets as well as weekly church activities.
$6,739 spent29% of program spendingApproximately 50 individuals and families benefitted from building relationships, discipleship, mentor programs and Biblical counseling.
$566 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $23,444.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $257k to $286k (+11%).
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: 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DAKOTA SONSHINE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Jeff Rafferty
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $27 → $30.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 DAKOTA SONSHINE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of DAKOTA SONSHINE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122 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
DAKOTA SONSHINE's revenue fell 50% between 2020 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,278 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like DAKOTA SONSHINE
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DAKOTA SONSHINE: 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 DAKOTA SONSHINE?
- DAKOTA SONSHINE (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $122 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($122). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DAKOTA SONSHINE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $122 in grants to DAKOTA SONSHINE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAKOTA SONSHINE?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $122 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAKOTA SONSHINE 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 1 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