Grantees 2024
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
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
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
Black Hills Special Services Cooperative
One-year support for literacy tutoring for grades K-2 at two Title 1 elementary schools
$25,000
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
Black Hills Area Community Foundation
$500,000
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
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
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
Oaye Luta Okolakiciye
One-year support for cultural programming and tutoring at Central High School for the 2024-2025 school year.
$75,000
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
Volunteers of America
Coordination of the Black Hills Regional Homeless Coalition
$300,000
Main street square
One-year support for operating Main Street Square, a family-friendly space in Downtown Rapid City
$100,000
Other
Honorariums
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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