South Dakota · Nonprofit
SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION
SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION (South Dakota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,564,500 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($1,070,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $870k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What South Dakota Education Equity Coalition does
Mission
The sdeec envisions a day when indigenous youth living in south dakota have access to innovative, equitable, and inclusive educational environments so they can grow, thrive, exercise self-determination with audacity, and be unapologetically who they are.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The South Dakota Education Equity Coalition (sdeec) exists to empower indigenous communities to effectively navigate public institutions in order to close achievement gaps and provide more culturally relevant educational opportunities for indigenous kids. We produce research, provide training, conduct policy analysis, and convene our partners and allies to accomplish our goals and advance our mission. We believe an important root cause in the education outcome disparity between indigenous students and other students in south dakota is the lack of formal consultation between the public education system in our state and tribal education directors from the nine tribal communities. In order to address this root cause, we worked to develop and build support for a first of its kind tribal accord to support the improvement of indigenous education in our state. We convened our partners, allies, and supporters. We also provided trainings for our partners and allies. We accomplished the following in 2025: hundreds of students participated in the ball on the mall program in july and august 2025. The program was a partnership between sdeec and the rapid city police. Students traveled to the…
$709,757 spentof which $4,600 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $709,757.
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 2022 to 2023, from $35k to $3.0M (+8418%).
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 SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION’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. 2 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.
Chief executive
Sarah White
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $200k → $1.1M.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION’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
SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 48% — 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.
Where its funders are
SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION has grown faster 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 SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION: 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 SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION?
- SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION (South Dakota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,564,500 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($1,070,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,564,500 in grants to SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION?
- THE BUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,070,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION 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 13 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