South Dakota · Nonprofit
THE GATHERING WELL
THE GATHERING WELL (South Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,207 to it, the largest being SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($31,207). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $87k
What The Gathering Well does
Mission
The Gathering Well supports, educates, and inspires adoptive and foster families with relevant connection opportunities and resources. We recognize jesus christ as the source of hope and healing and believe that no one should be on this journey alone. We are a board-run, 501(c)3 organization based in sioux falls, sd that exists to educate and create community among the courageous families and professionals who care for children from hard places.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Gathering Well supports, educates, and inspires adoptive and foster families with relevant connection opportunities and resources including monthly gatherings, related trainings and counseling, and programs to support those families. The Gathering Well served the following amount of people by program:halo program: 21monthly family gatherings: 764making sense of your worth: 95tbri training: 35
$30,366 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,366.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 THE GATHERING WELL’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
THE GATHERING WELL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 THE GATHERING WELL.
“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
89% of THE GATHERING WELL'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from South Dakota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE GATHERING WELL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE GATHERING WELL
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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GATHERING WELL?
- THE GATHERING WELL (South Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,207 to it, the largest being SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($31,207). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE GATHERING WELL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $35,207 in grants to THE GATHERING WELL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GATHERING WELL?
- SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $31,207 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GATHERING WELL 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 2 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