Levo Cares Foundation
Sioux Falls, SD · EIN 83-0941368. Reported 104 grants totalling $159,461 to 73 recipients across tax years 2023-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Levo Cares Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,275; the smallest was $62 and the largest $19,760. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation | Sioux Falls, SD | $38,441 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Sioux Falls School District | Sioux Falls, SD | $13,510 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of South Dakota | Sioux Falls, SD | $12,600 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire | Sioux Falls, SD | $6,815 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| President's Bowl | Sioux Falls, SD | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Brandon Valley Band Parents Inc | Brandon, SD | $4,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Sioux Empire United Way | Sioux Falls, SD | $4,400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Avera Foundation | Sioux Falls, SD | $4,338 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Tiger Nation Harrisburg Activities Foundation | Harrisburg, SD | $4,300 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| St Francis House | Sioux Falls, SD | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Veterans Community Project | Kansas City, MO | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sioux Falls Catholic School Corporation Dba Bishop O'gorman Catholic School | Sioux Falls, SD | $2,525 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Union Gospel Mission | Sioux Falls, SD | $2,415 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Brandon Valley Booster Club | Brandon, SD | $2,062 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Sioux Falls Area Humane Society | Sioux Falls, SD | $2,020 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Call to Freedom Inc | Sioux Falls, SD | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Dakotabilities | Sioux Falls, SD | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Reach Literacy | Sioux Falls, SD | $2,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Sioux Falls Area CASA Program | Sioux Falls, SD | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Way of Siouxland | Sioux City, IA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Volunteers of America | Sioux Falls, SD | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Feeding South Dakota | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,685 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Helpline Center Inc | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Sd | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Lunch Is Served | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,390 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Tee It Up for the Troops | Burnsville, MN | $1,240 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jefferson High School Chorus Booster | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,100 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Gospel Mission | Sioux City, IA | $1,020 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Heart Association | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big Paws Canine Foundation | Hartford, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the Siouxland | Sioux City, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Center of Hope | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Florence Crittenton Home of Sioux City Ia Dba Crittenton Center | Sioux City, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Great Plains Food Bank | Fargo, ND | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Harrisburg Bands Boosters Club | Harrisburg, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Harrisburg Music Boosters | Harrisburg, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Irreverent Warriors Sioux Falls | Hartford, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lincoln Band Parents Association | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mary J Treglia Community House | Sioux City, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Noah's Hope Animal Rescue Inc | Sioux City, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sandford Health Foundation | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sioux City Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center | Sioux City, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sioux Falls Va Health Care System | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sioux Falls YMCA | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Siouxland Habitat for Humanity | Sioux City, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sunnybrook Hope Center | Sioux City, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Banquet | Sioux Falls, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Furniture Misson of South Dakota | Sioux Falls, SD | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Kidney Foundation Inc | Sioux Falls, SD | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sioux Falls Humane Society | Sioux Falls, SD | $510 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Children's Home Foundation | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Collision Ministries Inc | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Embe | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Furniture Mission of South Dakota | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Kelli Fantroy | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lincoln High School Booster Club | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Make-a-Wish South Dakota | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Midwest Street Medicine | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Oaklyn Foundation | Rock Rapids, IA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sd Educators Rising | Harrisburg, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| South Dakota Parkinson Foundation | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Foster Network | Sioux Falls, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Boy Scouts of America - Sioux Council | Tea, SD | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harrisburg Bands | Harrisburg, SD | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harrisburg Baseball Association | Harrisburg, SD | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Children's Home Shelter for Family Safety | Sioux Falls, SD | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Face It Together | Sioux Falls, SD | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Westside Christian School | Sioux Falls, SD | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alzheimer's Association of South Dakota | Sioux Falls, SD | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sf Chargers Baseball | Sioux Falls, SD | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| South Dakota State University - Extension | Brookings, SD | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc | Sioux Falls, SD | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Martha's Mission Siouxland | Sioux City, IA | $90 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
24 of 73 (33%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 43%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation
2024 OPERATION HOPE AND CARING - Junior Achievement of South Dakota
24-25 ANNUAL FUND DRIVE STUDENT IMPACT, GREAT SHOTS FORE KIDS, JA INSPIRE - Veterans Community Project
COMMITMENT TO VCP SIOUX FALLS PHASE II CAPITAL CAMPAIGN - President's Bowl
2024 PRESIDENT'S BOWL SPONSORSHIP - Sioux Empire United Way
2024 CAMPAIGN CORPORATE DONATION - Volunteers of America
2024 RISE & SHINE ANNUAL FUND
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 51 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 30 | $37,195 | $500 |
| 2024 | 34 | $60,460 | $1,000 |
| 2025 | 40 | $61,806 | $1,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
90% of its giving went to organizations in South Dakota. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in South Dakota.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Levo Cares Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2023-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 1741 S Cleveland Ave, Sioux Falls, SD, 57103. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
EIN 83-0941368 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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