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Foundations That Fund Recreation & Sports in South Dakota

Imperigo has identified 52 funders that made 294 grants totaling $17.4M to 65 recreation & sports organizations in South Dakota, with a median grant of $13K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Recreation & Sports Funding in South Dakota

Total granted $17.4M
Funders 52
Grants 294
Organizations funded 65

Top Funders — page 1 of 3

1. Sanford Group Return
41 grants to 12 organizations · largest $3.8M · through 2024 · 4.2% of their giving
$7.7M
2. Mobridge Rodeo Inc Harrison
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $100K · through 2025 · 100.0% of their giving
$361K
3. Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc
41 grants to 15 organizations · largest $1.1M · through 2024 · 1.6% of their giving
$2.8M
4. Aberdeen Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc
21 grants to 7 organizations · largest $18K · through 2024 · 49.6% of their giving
$198K
5. Farmers Educational & Cooperative
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $190K · through 2024 · 67.3% of their giving
$190K
6. Baseball Parents Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $50K · through 2022 · 100.0% of their giving
$50K
7. Watertown Area United Way Inc
14 grants to 2 organizations · largest $16K · through 2024 · 6.1% of their giving
$159K
8. Motorsports Charities Inc
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $173K · through 2024 · 3.1% of their giving
$278K
9. Watertown Area Community Foundation
4 grants to 2 organizations · largest $57K · through 2024 · 4.6% of their giving
$139K
10. Avera Health
24 grants to 9 organizations · largest $100K · through 2024
$443K
11. Mitchell Area Charitable Foundation
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $24K · through 2022 · 11.4% of their giving
$34K
12. Great Plains Education Foundation Inc C/O Dacotah Bank Trust
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $250K · through 2022 · 1.3% of their giving
$250K
13. Black Hills Area Community Foundation
11 grants to 5 organizations · largest $51K · through 2024
$181K
14. South Dakota Community Foundation
22 grants to 13 organizations · largest $101K · through 2024
$420K
15. Delta Dental of South Dakota
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $100K · through 2025
$152K
16. Oahe Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $50K · through 2024
$65K
17. The Foundation for Youth Firearms Safety Inc
5 grants to 2 organizations · largest $5K · through 2024 · 1.4% of their giving
$14K
18. United States Tennis Association Incorporated
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $50K · through 2022
$50K
19. Minnesota Twins Community Fund
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $6K · through 2021
$6K
20. The Skatepark Project
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $5K · through 2020
$5K
21. Greater Horizons
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $80K · through 2024
$80K
22. AARP
3 grants to 2 organizations · largest $20K · through 2023
$32K
23. The Albertsons Companies Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2024
$18K
24. The Blackbaud Giving Fund
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $20K · through 2022
$30K
25. Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $8K · through 2023
$13K

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to recreation & sports work in South Dakota, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 8 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

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About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering recreation & sports work, with an address in South Dakota. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable recreation & sports funding in South Dakota, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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