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MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS

MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS (South Dakota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,090,626 to it, the largest being David B Jones Foundation ($562,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$6.4M
8/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Mammoth Site of Hot Springs does

Mission

The mission of the organization is the preservation, research, and interpretation of the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, south dakota, and development of a broad understanding of the late ice age record across a global framework.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Recover, preserve and exhibit findings from the mammoth site. Provide educational programs and guided tours of the site and bonebed.

    $1,323,851 spent$1,089,217 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,323,851.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2018 Revenue 106 ($1.5M) Expenses 97 ($1.5M) Net assets 102 ($2.9M)2019 Revenue 115 ($1.7M) Expenses 102 ($1.5M) Net assets 106 ($3.0M)2020 Revenue 69 ($995k) Expenses 95 ($1.4M) Net assets 90 ($2.6M)2021 Revenue 339 ($4.9M) Expenses 106 ($1.6M) Net assets 216 ($6.2M)2022 Revenue 125 ($1.8M) Expenses 122 ($1.9M) Net assets 203 ($5.8M)2023 Revenue 127 ($1.8M) Expenses 119 ($1.8M) Net assets 206 ($5.9M)2025 Revenue 112 ($1.6M) Expenses 111 ($1.7M) Net assets 222 ($6.4M)
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Revenue (112)Expenses (111)Net assets (222)Peer revenue range

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 $3.8M to $6.3M (+65%).

$4.0M
$3.8M
$3.9M
$3.8M
$6.3M
$5.9M
$6.0M
$6.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

11% of MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$77k
’17
$52k
’18
$116k
’19
−$454k
’20
$3.3M
’21
−$41k
’22
$19k
’23
−$66k
’25
9.3
months of
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.

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Listed1311111111131111
Joined·+3+0+0+0+4+0·
No longer listed·500022·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $23k → $63k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS’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.

How concentrated its funding is

MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

46% 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 MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS.

52%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 86% · 2019 89% · 2020 58% · 2021 88% · 2022 81% · 2023 62% — 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

50% of MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 6 states in all.

MT
SD
NJ
MO
DE
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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South Dakota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $493k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve9.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $263k on record.

Federal$263k
grants $263kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$263k

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 MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 15%Fundraising 6%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

77%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS?
MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS (South Dakota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,090,626 to it, the largest being David B Jones Foundation ($562,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,090,626 in grants to MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS?
David B Jones Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $562,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS 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 11 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