Charities and Community Foundations That Give Grants in South Dakota

These 22 organizations are not private foundations. They are charities based in South Dakota that give grants to other nonprofits and report them on Form 990 Schedule I -- community foundations, United Ways and federated funds, hospital and university foundations, and operating charities that regrant. Each gave to at least 20 organizations we could identify and filed a return covering 2023 or later.

22grantmaking charities

$1.3Bgranted between them

4,402funding relationships mapped

Ordered by number of organizations funded. A grantmaker supporting sixty groups is a more realistic prospect than one writing two very large cheques, which is why this is not ranked by dollars.

Organization	Based in	Median grant	Organizations	Total granted
The Signatry Charitable Trust	Sioux Falls	$15,000	1,774	$734.9M
South Dakota Community Foundation	Pierre	$16,000	648	$114.2M
Sioux Falls Area Community	Sioux Falls	$22,000	442	$115.7M
Sanford Group Return	Sioux Falls	$22,000	370	$176.8M
Ndn Collective Inc	Rapid City	$200,000	220	$51.2M
Avera Health	Sioux Falls	$18,100	161	$37.4M
Black Hills Area Community	Rapid City	$15,000	144	$17.1M
Strider Education Foundation Inc	Rapid City	$8,380	82	$3.1M
The Foundation for Youth Firearms	Aberdeen	$3,000	70	$963K
Feeding South Dakota	Sioux Falls	$19,642	65	$7.1M
Sioux Empire United Way Inc	Sioux Falls	$74,500	54	$28.7M
Oahe Foundation	Pierre	$25,000	53	$7.9M
Watertown Area Community Foundation	Watertown	$14,111	51	$2.7M
First Peoples Fund	Rapid City	$20,000	47	$3.4M
United Way of the Black Hills	Rapid City	$22,500	46	$4.0M
The Roth & Letch Family Charitable	Dakota Dunes	$125,000	35	$10.6M
Brookings Area United Way	Brookings	$15,950	25	$2.0M
Monument Health Rapid City Hospital Inc	Rapid City	$10,250	25	$2.4M
South Dakota Association of Conservations Districts Inc	Pierre	$13,844	24	$757K
Kingdom Capital Fund	Sioux Falls	$35,000	23	$1.5M
Watertown Area United Way Inc	Watertown	$15,000	22	$2.0M
South Dakota Association of Healthcare	Sioux Falls	$10,433	21	$298K

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.

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