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SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF RURAL WATER SYSTEMS

SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF RURAL WATER SYSTEMS (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,538,444 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($5,538,444). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.5M
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$5.5M
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 92 ($2.1M) Expenses 101 ($2.2M) Net assets 96 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 117 ($2.6M) Expenses 121 ($2.6M) Net assets 99 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 126 ($2.9M) Expenses 130 ($2.8M) Net assets 104 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 160 ($3.6M) Expenses 153 ($3.3M) Net assets 126 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 154 ($3.5M) Expenses 159 ($3.4M) Net assets 133 ($2.3M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (154)Expenses (159)Net assets (133)

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$136k
20
$69k
21
$58k
22
$85k
23
$376k
24
$118k
25
3.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $783k → $1.1M.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF RURAL WATER SYSTEMS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF RURAL WATER SYSTEMS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 1 state in all.

OK

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

21
22
23
South Dakota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

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.

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.

Government funding SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF RURAL WATER SYSTEMS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $505k on record.

Federal$505k
grants $0contracts $505k
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$505k

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 SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF RURAL WATER SYSTEMS

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

32
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF RURAL WATER SYSTEMS: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF RURAL WATER SYSTEMS?
SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF RURAL WATER SYSTEMS (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,538,444 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($5,538,444). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF RURAL WATER SYSTEMS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,538,444 in grants to SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF RURAL WATER SYSTEMS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF RURAL WATER SYSTEMS?
NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,538,444 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF RURAL WATER SYSTEMS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing