South Dakota · Nonprofit
FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC
FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,690,001 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($6,000,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $37M
What Four Bands Community Fund Inc does
Mission
Improve individual and tribal economic development and self-sufficiency for the reservation, thereby improving the quality of life for all communities and residents of the cheyenne river indian reservation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Assist entrepreneurs of the cheyenne river indian reservation with training, business incubation and access to capital, encouraging economic development and enhancing the quality of life for residents of the reservation.
$11,132,354 spentof which $6,711,764 as grants$2,146,140 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,132,354.
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 $31M to $46M (+50%).
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 38% · 2018 32% · 2019 31% · 2020 40% · 2021 20% · 2022 34% · 2023 35% · 2024 29% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% 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.
Board chair
Kelsey Scott
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $175k → $4.3M.
8 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 53% · 2020 52% · 2021 48% · 2022 63% · 2023 47% — 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
38% of FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 366 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 366 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $39.7M on record.
- Department of Commerce$22.7M
- Department of Agriculture$9.1M
- Department of the Treasury$7.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$659k
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 FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC: 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 FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC?
- FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,690,001 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($6,000,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $21,690,001 in grants to FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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