Grantees 2024
The following are grants awarded in 2024. This does not reflect all open grants. For more on open grants, explore our grants page.
Last updated October 2024.
Affordable Housing
Black Hills Area Community Foundation
- $250,000 – One-year matching funds to establish a Housing Trust Fund for the Box Elder Area
- $30,000 – One-time funding for the Memorial Park Apartments Fund to address needs of low-income seniors affected by the Memorial Park Accident
$280,000
Early Learning
SDPB EArly Learning Initiative
Two-year support for the SDPB Early Learning Initiative
$90,000
United Way of the Black Hills – Black Hills Reads
Two-year continued Early Learning support for the Black Hills Reads program.
$362,000
Economic Mobility
Black Hills Special Services Cooperative
$504,000
Native American Nursing Education Center
Two-year operating support of the Native American Nursing Education Center (NANEC) for mentoring, cultural programming, and student support to increase the number of Native American nurses in the region.
$352,000
Basic Needs
YFS Girls Inc. of Rapid City
$200,000
Seventh Circuit CASA Program
Two-year operating support for child advocate services in the Black Hills
$150,000
Feeding South Dakota
$100,000
Volunteers of America Mommy’s Closet
Two-year operating support to meet needs of low income families with young children.
$120,000
National Alliance on Mental Illness South Dakota
$55,000
SHIFT Garage
One-year general operations for the UPSHIFT car purchase program.
$50,000
Chamber Music Festival of the Black Hills
$22,000
Fourth Circuit DUI Court
One-year incentive funding for problem-solving court participants
$10,000
Pennington County Drug Court
$25,000
Pennington County Mental Health Court
One-year of discretionary funding to help participants meet their basic needs.
$10,000
Northern Hills Drug Court
$10,000
Lawrence County Teen Court
One-year operating support to address increased case load for the Northern Hills
$15,000
Rapid City Club for Boys
$300,000
Pennington County Human Services
Two-year discretionary flex funds to assist Pennington County residents with emergent economic support including: rental deposits, rental assistance, utility assistance, and transportation support
$240,000
Literacy Council of the Black Hills
$12,500
Wellfully Adolescent Crisis Care Center
One-year opperating funding for the Adolecent Crisis Care Center a free-will, walk-in resource for middle and high school age youth who are in crisis or may be considering suicide
$305,000
Black Hills Area Community Foundation
$300,000
Rapid City Arts Council
Two-year support for equitable arts education for Rapid City youth for the next two years, supporting their educational journey and social well-being
$150,000
Western South Dakota Community Action
$100,000
Passages Women’s Transitional Living
One-year support for reentry services to women making the transition from incarceration, homelessness, and treatment centers
$35,000
United Way of the Black Hills- Leadership Development
$150,000
Victims of Violence Intervention Program/Artemis House
One-year funding for security upgrades to their shelter building
$65,000
Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation
$10,000
Other
Honorariums
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- $40,000 – Rapid City Club for Boys
- $40,000 – Lifescape
- $20,000 – Emily’s Hope
- $15,000 – Black Hills Area Community Foundation
- $5,897 – Black Hills Area Community Foundation
- $3,750 – OneHeart
- $3,750 – Black Hills Area Community Foundation
- $2,500 – Family Connections Center
- $2,400 – Black Hills Special Services Coop – Workforce Connections
- $1,000 – OneHeart
- $573 – OneHeart
- $500 – Youth and Family Services
- $500 – Feeding South Dakota
$135,870
2024 Total Grants Awarded
$4,146,870
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