South Dakota · Nonprofit
WEST RIVER AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER
WEST RIVER AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 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 FY2025
- $733k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $51k
What West River Area Health Education Center does
Mission
Connecting students to careers, professionals to communities, and communities to better health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The wrahec scholars rural health leadership program is designed for college-level health professions students interested in supplementing their education by gaining relevant knowledge and experiences in rural and underserved areas of western south dakota. This program is a required for our hrsa grant funding. Students participate for 18 months and acquire 80 hours of experiential/clinical training and 80 hours of didactic training. The eight core topics studied in this program are: interprofessional education, behavioral health integration, social determinants of health, cultural competency, practice transformation, current and emerging health care issues, virtual learning and telehealth,and connected communities and supporting health professionals. During this fiscal year, the wrahec had 15 scholars participate in the program. In addition, the scholars put together a community impact project in september that provided 45-50 sd mines university students with an afternoon wellness fair.
$122,165 spent19% of program spendingWrahec healthcare career exploration events (grades 8-12):the wrahec reached a total of 14,826 students in grades 8-12 during this fiscal year. The events included: rcas stevens/central scrubs camp, women in science at sdsmt, spearfish scrubs camp, rcas central hosa students - anatomage table activitiy, pine ridge scrubs camp, sd hosa state conference, the international leadership conference for hosa in nashville, tn, stevens high school healthcare pathways classes, women in science at bhsu in spearfish, cohort v community impact project held for sd mines university students, summer nursing camp in spearfish, summer nursing camp in rapid city, and sdsmt mole day for 8th grade students in rural western south dakota. These events are geared towards getting students excited and interested in the many types of healthcare careers. The following are a sampling of activities provided at these events: you are the cure video (13 min video on working in healthcare in western south dakota, you are the cure booklets (provide information on jobs, schooling required, where to go to school while staying in south dakota, and starting salary, 14' inflatable mega brain (students can walk through…
$44,015 spent7% of program spendingCommunity impact:wrahec implemented the fourth and final year of the department of labor, h-1b rural health care grant with partners: redfield community hospital, usd center for rural health improvement, and monument health. There have been many successes with upskilling students into high demand healthcare jobs like certified nursing assistant, licensed practical nursing, registered nursing, pre-nursing, bsn in nursing, emergency medical technicians, and paramedics across south dakota. This program is changing lives for the better with great paying and rewarding healthcare occupations while lessening the extreme workforce shortage south dakota has been facing. We served 504 people across south dakota with the grant. On average, participant salaries increased by 77% once placed in new employment. Finally, the wrahec is invited to many community events to display our 14' inflatable mega brain to teach people about keeping a healthy brain and body and how to minimize diseases of the brain. Wrahec also serves on the sd department of health brain coalition to bring education across the state.
$475,507 spentof which $232,148 as grants$700 earned by the program74% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $641,687.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $180k to $430k (+139%).
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: 2021 98% · 2022 92% · 2023 97% · 2024 98% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WEST RIVER AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Stephanie Mayfield
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
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.
From the IRS filings of WEST RIVER AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER’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 WEST RIVER AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER'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. $10k 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
WEST RIVER AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER has grown faster than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WEST RIVER AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- Department of Labor$2.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$98k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WEST RIVER AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER
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
79% 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
- Western Dakota Technical College · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST RIVER AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER?
- WEST RIVER AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 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 WEST RIVER AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to WEST RIVER AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST RIVER AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER?
- SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST RIVER AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER 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 2021–2025), 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