South Dakota · Nonprofit
SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC
SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,267 to it, the largest being Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc ($152,943). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC's revenue grew 27% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Avera Healthshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Sanford Group Returnshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Sfs Foundationlocalportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
28% of SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
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 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $29k → $24k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC’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
SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 60% · 2019 55% · 2020 55% · 2021 41% · 2022 71% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
55% of SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC'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 $134k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from South Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $163k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Avera Healthshared funderslocalportfolio matchSD · backs 65 organizations that share your funders · funds 105 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sanford Group Returnshared funderslocalportfolio matchSD · backs 83 organizations that share your funders · funds 133 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sfs Foundationlocalportfolio matchSD · funds 12 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- 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 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 51 organizations near you
- Valley Queen Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Dental of South Dakota Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Scottish Rite Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Masonic and Eastern Star Home Charitportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The James and Eloise Elmen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Monument Health Rapid City Hospital Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sheldon F Reese Foundationshared funderslocalSD · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 43 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 SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
28%
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 SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC: 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 SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC?
- SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,267 to it, the largest being Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc ($152,943). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $297,267 in grants to SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC?
- Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $152,943 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC 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 5funders 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