Levo Cares Foundation
Sioux Falls, SD · EIN 83-0941368. Reported 64 grants totalling $97,655 to 54 organizations across tax years 2023-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Levo Cares Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,250; the smallest was $62 and the largest $19,760. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation | Sioux Falls, SD | $19,760 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sioux Falls School District | Sioux Falls, SD | $13,510 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of South Dakota | Sioux Falls, SD | $9,600 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sioux Empire United Way | Sioux Falls, SD | $4,400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire | Sioux Falls, SD | $4,315 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Avera Foundation | Sioux Falls, SD | $3,338 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Veterans Community Project | Kansas City, MO | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tiger Nation Harrisburg Activities Foundation | Harrisburg, SD | $2,850 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Brandon Valley Band Parents Inc | Brandon, SD | $2,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| President's Bowl | Sioux Falls, SD | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dakotabilities | Sioux Falls, SD | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sioux Falls Area CASA Program | Sioux Falls, SD | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Volunteers of America | Sioux Falls, SD | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sioux Falls Catholic School Corporation Dba Bishop O'gorman Catholic School | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tee It Up for the Troops | Burnsville, MN | $1,240 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Heart Association | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big Paws Canine Foundation | Hartford, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Call to Freedom Inc | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Harrisburg Music Boosters | Harrisburg, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lincoln Band Parents Association | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Reach Literacy | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Sd | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sandford Health Foundation | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sioux Falls Area Humane Society | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sioux Falls Va Health Care System | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sioux Falls YMCA | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Francis House | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Union Gospel Mission | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of Siouxland | Sioux City, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lunch Is Served | Sioux Falls, SD | $890 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Furniture Misson of South Dakota | Sioux Falls, SD | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sioux Falls Humane Society | Sioux Falls, SD | $510 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center of Hope | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Embe | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Helpline Center | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kelli Fantroy | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lincoln High School Booster Club | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Make-a-Wish South Dakota | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oaklyn Foundation | Rock Rapids, IA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sd Educators Rising | Harrisburg, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| South Dakota Parkinson Foundation | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jefferson High School Chorus Booster | Sioux Falls, SD | $400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America - Sioux Council | Tea, SD | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harrisburg Bands | Harrisburg, SD | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Feeding South Dakota | Sioux Falls, SD | $280 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Harrisburg Baseball Association | Harrisburg, SD | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Children's Home Shelter for Family Safety | Sioux Falls, SD | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Face It Together | Sioux Falls, SD | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Westside Christian School | Sioux Falls, SD | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alzheimer's Association of South Dakota | Sioux Falls, SD | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sf Chargers Baseball | Sioux Falls, SD | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| South Dakota State University - Extension | Brookings, SD | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc | Sioux Falls, SD | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brandon Valley Booster Club | Brandon, SD | $62 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
10 of 54 (19%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 33%, across 1 year-to-year transition. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation
2024 OPERATION HOPE AND CARING - Junior Achievement of South Dakota
24-25 ANNUAL FUND DRIVE STUDENT IMPACT, GREAT SHOTS FORE KIDS, JA INSPIRE - Veterans Community Project
COMMITMENT TO VCP SIOUX FALLS PHASE II CAPITAL CAMPAIGN - President's Bowl
2024 PRESIDENT'S BOWL SPONSORSHIP - Sioux Empire United Way
2024 CAMPAIGN CORPORATE DONATION - Volunteers of America
2024 RISE & SHINE ANNUAL FUND
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 30 | $37,195 | $500 |
| 2024 | 34 | $60,460 | $1,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 94% of this one's giving went to organizations in South Dakota. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in South Dakota.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Levo Cares Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2023-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1741 S Cleveland Ave, Sioux Falls, SD, 57103. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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