South Dakota · Nonprofit
ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND
ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND (South Dakota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,794 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $295k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $239k
What Rosebud Scholarship Fund does
Mission
Our mission is to empower Sicangu Lakota students through scholarships, mentorship, and training to increase student degree completion and the sovereignty of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The significant program service we undertook during this Jan 2025 - June 2025 short reporting period is the cultural exchange program. We took 3 students to Aotearoa New Zealand to learn from the Mori people and their unique struggle against colonization. The goal was for the students to gain perspective for when they want to make positive change in their home reservation.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Scholar Program - our scholars are Rosebud enrolled (2 being Rosebud residents) and pursuing higher education. They receive $500/semester, professional development, peer mentorship, and other additional investment. The purpose of the scholar program is to gather students dedicated to making positive change in Rosebud in cohorts so that when they are ready to make their change, they will have a team to do it. We recruit 10 rising college freshman each year. In this short accounting period of Jan 2025 - June 2025, we had 28 scholars that we directly invested $17,950 into in the following ways: (1) $14,000 ($500 end of semester award) (2) $3,750 ($50 for every professional development event they attend) (3) $200 (emergency funding).
$20,760 spentof which $17,950 as grants49% of program spendingGeneral Assistance - simple scholarship assistance awarded at up to $500/semester to any student that meets the following requirements: (1) Rosebud enrolled (2) pursuing higher education. In the short period Jan 2025 - June 2025, 23 students were served with $8,312 in grants.
$8,312 spentof which $8,312 as grants20% of program spendingCultural Exchange - a week-long trip to Aotearoa New Zealand for 3 students and 2 chaperones to learn from the Mori people and their unique struggle against colonization. The goal was for the students to gain perspective for when they want to make positive change in their home reservation.
$13,394 spent32% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $42,466.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $536 to $239k (+44447%).
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.
100% of ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Della Spotted Tail
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $62 → $6k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND’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
ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 41 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND: 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 ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND?
- ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND (South Dakota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,794 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $11,794 in grants to ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND?
- AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROSEBUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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