Dakota Rural Action

Analysis

Dakota Rural Action is a registered charity in United States, based in Sioux Falls, SD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Dakota Rural Action reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.0m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $622k to $1.2m (+90%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Dakota Rural Action sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 81st percentile within SD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Shelter Island Public Library ($1.2m), Razi School ($1.2m) and New Covenant School Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% and program service revenue 0.7% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $398k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $125k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 12 employees.