South Dakota · Nonprofit
WAITT INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION
WAITT INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $101k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $250k
- Net assets
- $49k
What Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention does
Programs
Partnership with the sanford center community school gang prevention outreach program. One case worker carries a caseload of 30 high risk children and their families, so we estimate that they would directly impact over 100 people. In addition, this diverse group of individuals help the schools to have a positive impact on school climate and have been involved in our anti bullying and anti-violence programs.
$71,377 spentPartnership with the "this is where I learned not to sleep" documentary film which highlights that the most dangerous police call is domestic violence and also trains police and advocates on safety practices and recognizing lethal incidents. The film has reached thousands of law enforcement officials, judges, and advocates. Https://www.thisiswherefilm.com/
$21,375 spentPartnership with the siouxland mental health center to support adolescent mental health to help children with mood disorders and behavioral issues. We raised $10,000 towards this program.https://mhanational.org/resources/depression-in-teens/
$21,375 spentPartnership with the sanford community center for overall funding. We raised $20,000 towards this program.
$21,375 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
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 2019 to 2020, from $139k to $57k (−59%).
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
Cynthia L Waitt
Executive director
Board chair
Theodore W Waitt
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100k → $50k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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: $400k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Waitt Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money WAITT INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION raised.
From the IRS filings of WAITT INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION’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
100% of WAITT INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250k 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
WAITT INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION is better cushioned than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WAITT INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAITT INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION: 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 WAITT INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION?
- WAITT INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WAITT INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $250,000 in grants to WAITT INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAITT INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAITT INSTITUTE FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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