FundersSouth Dakota

William J Holland and Alyce I

Sisseton, SD · EIN 46-0381838. Reported 100 grants totalling $143,190 to 30 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$143,190granted, 2021-2024
30organizations funded
88%of grantees funded again the next year

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. William J Holland and Alyce I did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $2,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $4,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
18 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
82 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Sisseton Public SchoolsSisseton, SD$16,000442024
Sspa - Sisseton Swimming Pool AssnSisseton, SD$8,500442024
Heritage Museum of Roberts CountySisseton, SD$7,000442024
Tekakwitha Nursing Center FoundatioSisseton, SD$7,000442024
Roberts County Rescue SquadSisseton, SD$6,500442024
Sisseton Cemetery AssociationSisseton, SD$6,500442024
Sisseton Volunteer Fire DeptSisseton, SD$6,500442024
Gethsemene Episcopal ChurchSisseton, SD$6,240442024
Coteau Des Prairies Health SystemsSisseton, SD$6,000442024
Grace Lutheran Church FoundationSisseton, SD$6,000442024
Greater Sisseton Initiative IncSisseton, SD$6,000442024
Sisseton Youth BaseballSisseton, SD$6,000442024
St Peters Catholic ChurchSisseton, SD$6,000442024
Und Alumni Assn FoundationGrand Forks, ND$6,000442024
Roberts County - 4-H ProgramSisseton, SD$5,700442024
Sisseton Area Community FoundationSisseton, SD$5,500222022
Family Life Assembly of GodSisseton, SD$5,000442024
First Presbyterian ChurchSisseton, SD$5,000442024
Emanuel Lutheran ChurchSisseton, SD$4,000442024
Sisseton Arts CouncilSisseton, SD$4,000442024
City of SissetonSisseton, SD$2,000222024
Hills & Valleys Riding ClubSisseton, SD$2,000442024
Sisseton Memorial LibrarySisseton, SD$2,000442024
Sisseton Area Partners for ProgressSisseton, SD$1,500222022
Special Olympics of SissetonSisseton, SD$1,500222024
VFW Post 3342Sisseton, SD$1,500222024
American Legion AuxillarySisseton, SD$1,000222023
New Hope Free Lutheran ChurchSisseton, SD$1,000222024
Sisseton Senior Citizens CenterSisseton, SD$1,000112021
Christian Outreach CenterSisseton, SD$250112021

28 of 30 (93%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 88%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
8 grants
Recreation & Sports
4 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
4 grants
Mutual Benefit
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202126$45,360$1,780
202224$39,110$1,780
202325$28,360$1,000
202425$30,360$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. 96% 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.

South Dakota
$137K
North Dakota
$6K

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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.

Welk Family Foundation5 shared recipientsSouth Dakota Community Foundation2 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in South Dakota.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 William J Holland and Alyce I's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 196, Sisseton, SD, 57262. 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.

EIN 46-0381838 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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