Community Savings Accounts: Lasting Community Impact

SDCF has partnered with 89 communities across South Dakota to form Community Savings Accounts (CSA). A CSA provides current, past and future residents with the opportunity to give back to the community they call home.

With SDCF’s careful investment, a CSA will grow and support annual grants in perpetuity, ensuring the community continues to thrive for years to come. CSA Advisory Councils, comprised of local leaders, make distribution recommendations for available funds held by SDCF. These leaders direct fundraising efforts and channel available funds to where they are most needed. With local involvement, the money raised in the community stays in the community.

*includes sub-fund assets 2024 CSA Accomplishments

• Total donations to CSAs were $3 million.
• CSAs awarded almost $2.5 million through over 650 grants for scholarships and charitable causes in their communities.
• Endowed assets supporting South Dakota communities through CSAs reached $56 million.
• Because of many generous donors, Avera Health, the Farrar, Jones, Lillibridge and Miller families and the South Dakota Fund, nearly $1.76 million in CSA matching challenge funds have been distributed since the beginning of the CSA program.