South Dakota · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS
UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS (South Dakota) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,722,083 to it, the largest being JOHN T VUCUREVICH FOUNDATION ($332,500). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What United Way of the Black Hills does
Mission
United Way of the Black Hills organizes and implements an annual fundraising campaign to help support the budgets of local nonprofit agencies. Currently, community-wide campaigns are conducted in rapid city, sturgis and the northern hills communities of lead, deadwood, spearfish and belle fourche, as well as the southern hills communities of hot springs, custer, hill city, keystone, and edgemont. The organization also spearheads efforts to identify community needs, develops a community response to those needs, and promotes teamwork among local nonprofits.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fundraising & allocations of funds to non-profit organizations, as well as provide office and meeting space to area non-profit organizations.
$1,355,020 spentof which $971,716 as grants$11,235 earned by the program71% of program spendingAccepted a "grade-level reading initiative grant" that will be used to coordinate literacy efforts in the community amongst local nonprofit agencies, identify areas of strength and weaknesses, and guide the development of initial goals and collaborative projects. Initiated a non-profit foundation grant to provide project management, facilitation, and support to the early learner rapid city initiative and the black hills reads program, supervised by United Way of the Black Hills.
$285,058 spentof which $25,300 as grants15% of program spendingNonprofit 360 provides nonprofits in the black hills with free tools, training, and capacity-building support to help grow stronger and more sustainable. This free program includes four different opportunities: leadership development, board training, training workshops, and consulting.
$243,949 spent13% of program spendingAccepted a private foundation grant for a mental health program coordinator and collaborative arrangement to implement communities that care, a community-owned prevention system proven to reduce youth health and behavior problems community wide. Accepted a private foundation grant for mental health education and resources, using a collaborative implementation of the everyday strong program a laymans guide to working with youth in crisis and in building relationships.
$37,173 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,921,200.
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 2018 to 2019, from $6.5M to $7.7M (+17%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 0% · 2021 4% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $200k → $323k.
11 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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: $155k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Black Hills Corporation Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS’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
UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
56% 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 UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 45% · 2019 46% · 2020 21% · 2021 29% · 2022 26% · 2023 46% — 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
57% of UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
51% of UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS's grant income comes from South Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $705k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS is better cushioned than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS?
- UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS (South Dakota) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,722,083 to it, the largest being JOHN T VUCUREVICH FOUNDATION ($332,500). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,722,083 in grants to UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS?
- JOHN T VUCUREVICH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $332,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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