South Dakota · Nonprofit
St Francis Mission
St Francis Mission (South Dakota) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,917,296 to it, the largest being RAY & KAY ECKSTEIN CHARITABLE TRUST ($430,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $8.5M
What St Francis Mission does
Mission
To serve the Sicangu Lakota people of the Rosebud Reservation by addressing their spiritual and physical needs. To empower in friendship a positive community rooted in Lakota and Catholic values through faith, education and healing. We envision a vital and self-sufficient community where values flourish in harmony.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Socio - Pastoral and Youth Activities We provide Religious Education and Sacramental Preparation to the youth and adults through classes in four elementary schools and classes held in our facilities for the adults. We have Youth Groups that works with our communities and coordinates with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in activities that inspire youth and young adults in social and cultural activities, suicide prevention, and assist with Catholic Body, Mind and Souls camps in the summer to teach Catholic faith and prayer while incorporating Lakota values and spirituality. Our ministry will be working to develop stronger families through Sunday services, going to homes and meeting with families and the elderly. Oftentimes spirituality/mass is taken to those homebound.We work to impart a strong spiritual community and work to build a society free from drugs and alcohol, by hosting a Recovery Center working through AA, NA, and a family program working through alcohol and drug addiction.
$1,260,889 spent$11,167 earned by the program75% of program spendingProgram Maintenance and Support - Maintenance support related to the physical structures of the Mission. Our staff maintains and cares for our Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum where over 2000 Lakota artifacts, and over 10,000 historic photos are housed. In addition caring for four Catholics parishes including the historic St. Charles Church built in 1916-21. These churches are in four different communities and are the center for community gatherings.
$394,520 spent24% of program spendingCommunity Services and Cultural Development. St Francis Mission owns and operates our Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum. We display artifacts and crafts from local artisans. We entertain guests from all parts of the United States and other countries of the world. The Museum is beginning to work with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe to house many of their artifacts and is recognized as housing and caring for one of the largest artifacts of the Lakota Sioux people in the country. These artifacts date back to the late 1880s and up to current times as our history continues to evolve. Our service to the communities is done through having our facilities available for their use whether it is spiritual, cultural or for entertainment. We continue to provide for their needs.
$21,735 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,677,144.
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 2021 to 2022, from $9.7M to $9.3M (−4%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of St Francis Mission’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
David Emery
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $236k → $291k.
12 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 St Francis Mission’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
St Francis Mission has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
31% 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 St Francis Mission.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 54% · 2019 27% · 2020 23% · 2021 16% · 2022 25% · 2023 34% — 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
74% of St Francis Mission's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
St Francis Mission draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $535k 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
St Francis Mission's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding St Francis Mission receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$25k
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 St Francis Mission
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- St Francis Mission Dental Clinic · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds St Francis Mission?
- St Francis Mission (South Dakota) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,917,296 to it, the largest being RAY & KAY ECKSTEIN CHARITABLE TRUST ($430,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does St Francis Mission have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $1,917,296 in grants to St Francis Mission, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of St Francis Mission?
- RAY & KAY ECKSTEIN CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like St Francis Mission 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 37 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing