About Children's Home Foundation
To support the programs and services of Children's Home Society of South Dakota that promote the safety, well-being, and permanency of children and families.
Focus Areas
Child welfareFoster careAdoptionResidential treatmentChild mental healthDomestic violence / family safetyPrevention and trainingChild advocacy
Funding Style
unrestricted general operating supportflexible fundingorganizational capacity support
Topics
general organizational support
About Children's Home Foundation
Children's Home Foundation’s recent giving is defined by very large general-support grants to Children's Home Society of South Dakota, including $13,406,036 in 2025 and $11,572,504 in 2024. That pattern points to a funder built around operating support for a closely linked provider rather than a broad portfolio of separate charities. The foundation’s stated purpose is to support programs and services that promote the safety, well-being, and permanency of children and families. Its program language names foster care and adoption, residential treatment and schools, shelter for family safety, outpatient mental health services, child advocacy, and prevention and education as areas of support. The recent-grants record also shows support for Sanford - Child's Voice in Sioux Falls, alongside the larger institutional grants to Children's Home Society of South Dakota. Taken together, the data show a local foundation giving entirely within South Dakota and concentrating on child welfare and family-safety services. The foundation reports annual grants of $28,354,486 and total assets of $163,092,355, placing its grantmaking at a substantial scale relative to the organizations it supports.
What Children's Home Foundation Funds
In child welfare and permanency work, Children's Home Foundation gave $3,299,672 in 2023 to Children's Home Society of South Dakota for general support. Its program description also ties grantmaking to foster care and adoption, showing a direct connection to family-placement services. For child mental health, the foundation’s active grant program includes outpatient mental health services, and Sanford - Child's Voice received general support grants in 2023, 2024, and 2025. The program language also includes residential treatment and schools, which places campus-based care and education within the foundation’s scope. Shelter for family safety and domestic violence services is another named area, alongside child advocacy and forensic interviewing. The available grant data show these priorities expressed through unrestricted support rather than narrow project-only awards.
How Children's Home Foundation Gives
Children's Home Foundation’s grant sizes are highly skewed: p25 is $25,608, the median is $1,663,488, and p75 is $9,504,296. That spread reflects a mix of very large institutional awards and much smaller supporting grants. The foundation makes unrestricted general operating support a clear pattern, with the largest recent grants all labeled general support. The recipient list also shows repeated support across multiple years for the same organizations, indicating ongoing relationships rather than one-off gifts. The foundation funds through a local grant program tied to its own priorities, does not fund individuals, and does not accept unsolicited applications.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$12.7M
Total Assets
$179.1M
Total Revenue
$16.7M
Total Expenses
$15.9M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $26K and $9.5M, with a median of $1.7M.
25th Percentile
$26K
Median
$1.7M
75th Percentile
$9.5M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
JON MAMMENGA
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