South Dakota · Nonprofit
THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST
THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST (South Dakota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,766,344 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,182,066). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programTHE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$734M
Recipients
1,736
Contributions on record
$613M
Donors on record
12
Payments out are 1.20x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- First Fruit Incshared funders
- Helping Hands Support Incportfolio match
- Living Promise Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $3.2M → $39k.
7 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $605M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Servant Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST raised.
From the IRS filings of THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST’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.
Where its funders are
88% of THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST'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 $966k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Dakota, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- First Fruit Incshared fundersCA · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- Helping Hands Support Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Living Promise Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marvin Buzz Oates Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Love Thy Neighbor Tooportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lydick Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sparrow Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bowanabee Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kingdom Alliance Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E Thomas Arington Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- GuideStream Charitable Gift Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pinetops Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 59 related entities
- Ct 10000 LLC · disregarded
- Ct 10001 LLC · disregarded
- Ct 10002 LLC · disregarded
- Ct 10003 LLC · disregarded
- Ct 10004 LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST?
- THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST (South Dakota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,766,344 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,182,066). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $7,766,344 in grants to THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,182,066 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing