South Dakota · Nonprofit
Sicangu Community Development Corporation
Sicangu Community Development Corporation (South Dakota) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,214,688 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,000,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $8.2M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Sicangu Community Development Corporation does
Mission
As lakota we believe we are all related and it is our duty to create a better world for future generations. Sicangu Community Development Corporation does this by empowering people strengthening families and building community in the key areas of food health housing and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wakanyeja kin Tokeyahci Wounspi Ti: Waknyeza Ki Tokeya Wunspe Ti continued expanding its Lakota language immersion education program serving 46 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. During the year the school achieved accreditation through the Commission for Oceti Sakowin Association COSA expanded programming to include athletics such as cross country and boys basketball and strengthened Lakota language instruction through classrooms led by fluent speakers and graduates of the Teacher Apprentice program. The program also engaged 62 community members through Language Weekends and the Summer Institute and students earned multiple Lakota Language Bowl championships at the Lakota Nation Invitational.
$1,218,034 spent54% of program spendingSicangu Health Initiative:The Sicangu Health Initiative supports community wellness through culturally grounded health programming and family support services. During the year the program strengthened existing services including health coaching and home garden initiatives resulting in the installation of 100 home gardens throughout the Rosebud community. The initiative also launched a Youth Outdoor Mentorship pilot program in partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of Rosebud engaging 15 middle school youth in land-based learning and outdoor leadership activities. Additionally the program began planning efforts to develop culturally relevant maternal and birth services through community engagement and program design.
$83,025 spent4% of program spendingSicangu Food Sovereignty Initiative: The Sicangu Food Sovereignty Initiative strengthens community food systems through local food production distribution and agricultural capacity building. During the year the program launched the Relatives Feeding Relatives program providing food boxes containing locally produced foods including bison meat and fresh produce to more than 2,000 families and distributing 12,000 pounds of buffalo and 6,300 pounds of fresh produce during a federal government shutdown. The initiative also launched the Local Foods Capacity Program supporting seven community members in developing home-based food production projects such as greenhouses and poultry production. In addition the program distributed $558,765 worth of locally produced foods supported 40 local vendors through the Sicangu Harvest Market and began planning expansion of the Keya Wakpala community garden from one acre to 8.9 acres to increase local food production.
$873,478 spent39% of program spendingKeya Wakpala housing initiative
$64,895 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,239,432.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $1.0M to $3.2M (+215%).
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: 2023 72% · 2024 95% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Sicangu Community Development Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Clay Colombe
Member at large - redco CEO
Board chair
Nora Antoine
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $727k → $1.0M.
11 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Sicangu Community Development Corporation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
Sicangu Community Development Corporation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
49% 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 Sicangu Community Development Corporation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 28% · 2021 59% · 2022 26% · 2023 20% — 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
17% of Sicangu Community Development Corporation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
Sicangu Community Development Corporation draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Sicangu Community Development Corporation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Sicangu Community Development Corporation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.4M
- Department of Education$1.2M
- Department of Agriculture$675k
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 Sicangu Community Development Corporation
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sicangu Community Development Corporation: 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 Sicangu Community Development Corporation?
- Sicangu Community Development Corporation (South Dakota) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,214,688 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,000,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sicangu Community Development Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $8,214,688 in grants to Sicangu Community Development Corporation, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sicangu Community Development Corporation?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sicangu Community Development Corporation 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 41 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