South Dakota · Nonprofit
Makoce Agriculture Development
Makoce Agriculture Development (South Dakota) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,505,756 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($2,625,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Makoce Agriculture Development does
Mission
To develop indigenous agriculture and food systems designed to regenerate equitable healthy communities, economies, and our environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Makoce is developing the food system institute that will be a place for food productions leaders and community members to come together for education, meetings, and collaborative opportunities. The regenerative farm is being built out with the completion of the first barn, agricultural improvements to the space, as well as infrastructure to the farm that will stabilize operations of the regenerative farm for the future. Infrastructure of poultry processing unit space for better efficiency and long lasting use for the community.
$1,421,109 spentof which $85,000 as grants$6,750 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,421,109.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $453k to $3.5M (+683%).
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 18% · 2022 0% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Makoce Agriculture Development’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% 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.
Chief executive
Nicholas Hernandez
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $424k → $1.4M.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Makoce Agriculture Development’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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
Makoce Agriculture Development leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 47% · 2022 61% · 2023 36% — 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.
Where its funders are
Makoce Agriculture Development draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $324k 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
Makoce Agriculture Development holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Makoce Agriculture Development receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $972k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$772k
- Department of Agriculture$200k
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 Makoce Agriculture Development
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Makoce Agriculture Development: 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 Makoce Agriculture Development?
- Makoce Agriculture Development (South Dakota) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,505,756 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($2,625,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Makoce Agriculture Development have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $6,505,756 in grants to Makoce Agriculture Development, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Makoce Agriculture Development?
- THE BUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Makoce Agriculture Development 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 28 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