Grantees 2024
The following grants were awarded in 2024. To view our current grants, please visit the Funding Priorities page. For more information about our grants process, click here.
Last updated December 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
- $1,000,000 – Matching funds to the Rapid City Housing Trust Fund for the development of affordable housing
$1,280,000
Early Learning
Black Hills Special Services Cooperative
One-year support for literacy tutoring for grades K-2 at two Title 1 elementary schools
$25,000
Early Childhood Connections
Two-year support for Starting Strong Program, a scholarship program for preschool eduction of 3 and 4 year olds from low income families
$1,875,000
Early Childhood Connections
Support to Starting Strong providers to help with staffing and preschool expenses
$424,000
Northern Hills Alliance For Children
One-year operating support for quality child care in the Northern Black Hills
$50,000
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 Area Community Foundation
Funding to support the Rapid City Impact Fund
$500,000
Black Hills Special Services Cooperative
Two-year general operations grant for mentoring and crisis funding support for adult education leaners in the Workforce Connections Program
$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
action for the betterment of our community (abc)
Help build tiny homes providing transitional living for graduates of their drug and alcohol treatment program
$120,000
Black Hills center for aging
Renovations to expand programming at a second service location to serve our aging community by providing daytime services, education, and resources to enrich quality of life
$50,000
Black Hills Area Community Foundation
Two-year matching funding for regional nonprofits beginning or expanding an endowment at the Black Hills Area Community Foundation
$300,000
Boys And Girls Club Of Rosebud
Two-year Basic Needs support for general operations of their three club sites providing out of school programming
$75,000
Chamber Music Festival Of The Black Hills
$22,000
Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation
One-year support for the 7th GEN College and Post Secondary Resource Fair through the Indian University of North America
$10,000
Feeding South Dakota
$100,000
Fourth Circuit DUI Court
One-year incentive funding for problem-solving court participants
$10,000
Journey On
One-year support for matching funds to the Youth Homeless Demonstration Program for outreach activities with at risk youth ages 16-24
$40,000
Lawrence County Teen Court
One-year operating support to address increased case load for the Northern Hills
$15,000
Literacy Council Of The Black Hills
One-year general operations to support English language learning in the region
$12,500
Main Street Square
One-year support for operating Main Street Square, a family-friendly space in Downtown Rapid City
$100,000
National Alliance On Mental Illness South Dakota
$55,000
Northern Hills Drug Court
One-year of discretionary funds to help participants meet their basic needs
$10,000
Oaye Luta Okolakiciye
One-year support for cultural programming and tutoring at Central High School for the 2024-2025 school year
$75,000
Passages Women’s Transitional Living
One-year support for reentry services to women making the transition from incarceration, homelessness, and treatment centers
$35,000
Pennington County Drug Court
One-year discretionary funds to help participants meet their basic needs
$25,000
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
Pennington County Mental Health Court
One-year of discretionary funding to help participants meet their basic needs
$10,000
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
Rapid City Club For Boys
Two-year general operating support for afterschool and summer programming for at-risk boys ages 6-18
$300,000
Seventh Circuit Casa Program
$150,000
Shift Garage
$50,000
United Way Of The Black Hills- Leadership Development
Two-year funding for Nonprofit 360: professional development programming for local nonprofits
$150,000
Victims Of Violence Intervention Program/Artemis House
One-year funding for security upgrades to their shelter building
$65,000
Volunteers of America
Coordination of the Black Hills Regional Homeless Coalition
$300,000
Volunteers of America Mommy’s Closet
$120,000
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
Western South Dakota Community Action
One-year operating funds to support low-income families
$100,000
Working Against Violence, Inc.
Two-year Basic Needs support for general operations of the emergency shelter, crisis hotline, case management services, and outreach to support survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault
$200,000
YFS Girls Inc. Of Rapid City
$200,000
Other
Honorarium
Black Hills Area Community Foundation
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- Strengthening Civil Society Nonprofit Journalism Designated Endowed Fund – $25,000
- Strategic Housing Trust Fund – $20,000
- Remembering the Children Fund – $3,750
- BHACF Operating Endowment – $897
Black Hills Special Services Workforce Connections – $2,400
Emily’s Hope – $20,000
Family Connections Center – $2,500
Feeding South Dakota – $500
LifeScape – $40,000
OneHeart – $5,273
Rapid City Club for Boys – $40,000
Youth and Family Services – $500
$135,870
2024 Total Grants Awarded
$9,017,370
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