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South Dakota Kids Belong

South Dakota Kids Belong (South Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,666 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($38,742). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$255k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$54k
Net assets
$775k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What South Dakota Kids Belong does

Mission

Strategic Vision To see more than enough foster and adoptive parents to meet the needs of kids in foster care and support those families. We empower faith, business, volunteers, nonprofits, and government.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The I Belong Project uplifts the stories and voices of kids in foster care who are legally free for adoption. The trauma-informed photo and video shoots capture the stories of children hoping to connect with families. Each childs story is treated with dignity as we share videos with potential adoptive families.

    $74,153 spent
    27% of program spending
  2. Foster Friendly Our innovative Foster Friendly Programs and App empower and equip individuals, groups, and communities, including faith and non-profit organizations, businesses, and local governments, to find their yes in supporting those engaged in the foster, kinship, and adoption communities.

    $165,451 spent
    60% of program spending
  3. WRAP Engages and equips individuals, groups, and organizations to support foster and kinship families with practical support and encouragement.

    $36,433 spent
    13% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $276,037.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($172k) Expenses 100 ($157k) Net assets 100 ($17k)2022 Revenue 172 ($296k) Expenses 162 ($254k) Net assets 344 ($59k)2023 Revenue 176 ($303k) Expenses 177 ($278k) Net assets 490 ($85k)2024 Revenue 187 ($322k) Expenses 192 ($301k) Net assets 610 ($105k)2025 Revenue 148 ($255k) Expenses 235 ($369k) Net assets 4482 ($775k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (148)Expenses (235)Net assets (4482)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $106k to $775k (+634%).

$17k
$60k
$85k
$106k
$775k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of South Dakota Kids Belong’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’21
$42k
’22
$25k
’23
$21k
’24
−$115k
’25
25
months of
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

Doris Cardwell

Executive Director

Board chair

Rick Furnish

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

2022202320242025
Listed5666
Joined·+1+0+1
No longer listed·001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $10k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 Kids Belong’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 Kids Belong leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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

86% 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 South Dakota Kids Belong.

72%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 53% · 2023 72% — 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

86% of South Dakota Kids Belong'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside South Dakota, across 2 states.

MT
SD

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

’22
’23
South Dakota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

South Dakota Kids Belong holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−45% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve24.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like South Dakota Kids Belong

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 11%Fundraising 14%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds South Dakota Kids Belong?
South Dakota Kids Belong (South Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,666 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($38,742). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does South Dakota Kids Belong have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $53,666 in grants to South Dakota Kids Belong, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of South Dakota Kids Belong?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $38,742 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like South Dakota Kids Belong 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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