New Grant Portal Coming in 2025!
August 5, 2024 // Grants
SDCF is pleased to announce we will be moving to a new online grant application portal in 2025. Same company, different platform. To assist with this transition, we will temporarily stop accepting Letters of Inquiry to the South Dakota Fund grant program and Nonprofit Savings Account applications on September 30th. Nonprofits seeking program and project related funding, with demonstrated community support, are encouraged to submit a Letter of Inquiry to the South Dakota Fund or Nonprofit Savings Account application before September 30th.
SDCF will share more about the new application portal as the transition progresses.
Have questions?
Contact our Grants Team.
Ginger Niemann
Senior Program OfficerSince 1998, Ginger has been a member of the South Dakota Community Foundation team. Nearly a decade of her time at the foundation has been spent overseeing the administration of grant programs. Currently, Ginger works closely with the Grantmaking Committee to make distributions from the South Dakota Fund, Nonprofit Savings Account, Fairy Godmother's Fund, Beyond Idea Grant (BIG) and Bush Prize: South Dakota grant programs. BIG and Bush Prize: South Dakota are offered in partnership with the Bush Foundation.
Ginger is committed to connecting non-profit organizations with the funds they need to help South Dakotans. Traveling across the state, she meets with grant applicants, conducts site visits of grant recipients and awards grant checks.
Crystal Ortbahn
Grant Program CoordinatorCrystal joined South Dakota Community Foundation in September 2021. She brings experience in public service in South Dakota and overseas, having completed assignments with the United States Peace Corps in Uganda and Burkina Faso.
Crystal grew up in Pierre and is a graduate of Augustana University. She is eager to support good work being done across the state as a member of the grant team.