South Dakota · Nonprofit
SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION
SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION (South Dakota) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,779,998 to it, the largest being SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($10,025,105). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $214M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $1.2B
What Sanford Health Foundation does
Mission
To inspire philanthropy to advance the mission of sanford health, the premier rural health system in the u.s., and related exempt entities. 100% of donor dollars fuel local priorities to care, comfort and cure.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Donations help support the sanford initiatives:the sanford initiatives enhance the capabilities of sanford health and allow the organization to share its expertise with the communities it serves. Areas of focus for the sanford initiatives include sanford research, children's health, sports medicine, weight loss, genetics, breast cancer, virtual care, innovation and more. Since its inception, the sanford initiatives have continued to achieve major milestones, giving way to new breakthroughs and new discoveries, all of which are helping to transform the future of health care. -childhood nutrition and fitness initiativessanford health has created sanford fit, a health activation program developed to empower children and parents to make healthy lifestyle choices that help prevent childhood obesity. Sanford fit is comprised of a system of resources and programs including school programs, daycare training, mobile apps, and was developed using a combination of the latest scientific and behavioral research designed to educate, motivate, and inspire children of all ages to live a balanced, healthy lifestyle.-the sanford project since 2008, sanford health has been seeking a cure for type 1…
$42,223,761 spentof which $42,223,761 as grants77% of program spendingThe foundation inspires and facilitates philanthropic investment and builds community engagement around local health care-related programs, services and operations of sanford health while also seeking regional, national and international support for research and other health initiatives. Specifically, donations help provide patient care and family support ($3,400,795), equipment and facility improvement projects ($8,434,076), other internal programs ($114,070) and community benefit ($84,139).
$12,033,080 spentof which $12,033,080 as grants22% of program spendingAdditional donations support continuing education for staff and research programs that support the highest standards of patient care today and drive innovation and discovery of the treatments and cures of tomorrow.
$756,853 spentof which $756,853 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $55,013,694.
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 2020 to 2021, from $865M to $1.1B (+26%).
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.
76% of SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Lauris Molbert
Trustee, chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $2.3M.
12 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sanford Group Return). These are real filings, and they are not money SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
67% 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 SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 88% · 2019 91% · 2020 66% · 2021 60% · 2022 54% · 2023 63% — 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
46% of SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
61% of SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7.0M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from South Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 153 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 153 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Part of a family of 41 related entities
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION: 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 SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION (South Dakota) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,779,998 to it, the largest being SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($10,025,105). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $17,779,998 in grants to SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,025,105 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 54 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