South Dakota · Nonprofit
Downtown Brookings
Downtown Brookings (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being Brookings Economic Development Corporation ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $179k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $169k
What Downtown Brookings does
Mission
Downtown Brookings creates economic vitality by educating, connecting, and creating opportunity. The Board of Directors and ExecutiveDirector conduct the economic vitality activities. Economic vitality activities take place in the Central Business District of Brookings, SD. Fiftypercent of the time is allocated to economic vitality. The activity is funded through donations, grants, fees, and municipal funds. Economicvitality furthers our exempt purpose by sharing information and resources, identifying economic opportunities, partnering with area organizationsand government bodies, and creating a supportive environment to help new and existing businesses thrive, including informational booklets andbusiness development education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Downtown Brookings is a charitable organization that educates the public on the importance of investing in historic preservation, Arts, and smallbusiness. We create opportunities for the public to focus on local, to build a thriving and engaging historic Main Street.Downtown Brookings promotes our neighborhood through storytelling, marketing, and events. The Board of Directors and Executive Directorconduct the promotional activities. Promotional activities take place in the Central Business District of Brookings, SD. Twenty-five percent of thetime is allocated to promotion. The activity is funded through donations, grants, fees, and municipal funds. Promotions furthers our exemptpurpose by inviting the community to interact with our small businesses and to participate in educational opportunities while generating funds toinvest in historic preservation.Downtown Brookings creates economic vitality by educating, connecting, and creating opportunity.
$82,271 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $82,271.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $159k to $169k (+7%).
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: 2023 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of Downtown Brookings’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Downtown Brookings’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 Downtown Brookings's grant income comes from South Dakota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Downtown Brookings runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Downtown Brookings
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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Downtown Brookings: 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 Downtown Brookings?
- Downtown Brookings (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being Brookings Economic Development Corporation ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Downtown Brookings have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $35,000 in grants to Downtown Brookings.
- Who is the largest funder of Downtown Brookings?
- Brookings Economic Development Corporation is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Downtown Brookings 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 2023–2024), 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