South Dakota · Nonprofit
TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES
TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES (South Dakota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,774 to it, the largest being SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($116,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $162k
- Net assets
- $807k
What Tallgrass Recovery & Sober Living Homes does
Mission
Our mission is to provide the greatest opportunity for individuals and families suffering from alcohol & drug addiction to discover a new way of life by embracing a 12-step, spiritually-based solution.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
30-day Program -- Tallgrass programs have assisted thousands of people and their families. Guests are immersed in a community-based 12-step spiritual program & ground-breaking mentoring by a peer volunteer to learn the program which can be used to maintain sobriety and live a life of recovery from the chronic disease of addiction. The grants reported are scholarships awarded to individuals as a reduction of their stay fee. A discounted fee is then charged to the individuals if they do not have the financial means to cover the full cost of their 30-day stay.
$982,622 spentof which $82,700 as grants$807,350 earned by the program92% of program spendingSober living homes -- Guests apply for the opportunity to live in these homes where they can practice their recovery life skills in a home-like environment surrounded by others working the same recovery program. It is a place to share common goals, experiences and a place to grow. This program requires guests to obtain employment, support their roommates, abstain from alcohol & chemical use, and attend regular 12-step program meetings.
$80,627 spent$66,245 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,063,249.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $1.3M to $1.1M (−16%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 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
Jon Sommervold
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $32k → $22k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES’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
TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES 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
95% 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 TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 87% · 2022 60% · 2023 63% — 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
75% of TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from South Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122k 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
TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $162k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- TLC Community Development Corp · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES: 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 TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES?
- TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES (South Dakota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,774 to it, the largest being SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($116,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $161,774 in grants to TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES?
- SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $116,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TALLGRASS RECOVERY & SOBER LIVING HOMES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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