South Dakota · Nonprofit
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA (South Dakota) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,356,228 to it, the largest being MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($2,220,829). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Sioux Empire United Way Incshared funderslocal
- The Richard K Davis & Theresa a Davis Familyportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $433k → $531k.
11 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 32% · 2019 29% · 2020 43% · 2021 64% · 2022 68% · 2023 62% — growing more concentrated.
“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
52% of MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $601k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 35 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchSD · funds 50 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sioux Empire United Way Incshared funderslocalSD · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 51 organizations near you
- The Richard K Davis & Theresa a Davis Familyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vosmera Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ssm Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospitalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jewelers for Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children First - America's Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abbot Machine Company Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fanatics All in Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iglewski Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gipson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of the Black Hillsshared funderslocalSD · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · funds 41 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA?
- MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA (South Dakota) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,356,228 to it, the largest being MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($2,220,829). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $4,356,228 in grants to MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA?
- MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $2,220,829 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA 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.
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 35funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing