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Dakota Rural Action
P.O. Box 549, Brookings, SD 57006
Phone 605-697-5204 | Fax 605-697-6230 | Email action@dakotarural.org



Financials


Finances

for tax year ending 12/31/2004

Income$222,072.00 
Expenditures$226,327.00 
End-Of-Year Net Worth$20,229.00 
Tax Status501(c)3 

Selected Grants

Ben & Jerry's Foundation
Grant$5,000.00 in 1996
SourceFoundation Annual Report
DetailsThe Factory Farm/Family Farm Project developed in response to a huge beef feedlot sited over the Big Sioux aquifer, which supplies water to South Dakota's largest city. They are working to ensure strong environmental protections and address local and state permitting procedures for factory farm hog confinement facilitites.
Belvedere Fund
Grant$90,000.00 in 2001
SourceDonor's Website
DetailsTo organize citizens and promote public policy that protects human health and the environment and challenges corporate control of the food industry in South Dakota.
Educational Foundation of America
Grant$70,000.00 in 2000
SourceIRS Form 990 or 990-PF
DetailsFor the DRA/FOC Anti-Corporate Farming Law Defense Project [ed. note: "FOC" refers to Friends of the Constitution, a Nebraska anti-agribusiness group. "DRA" is Dakota Rural Action.]
Needmor Fund
Grant$20,000.00 in 1998
SourceFoundation Annual Report
DetailsEmpowers people statewide in leadership development and community organizing expansion to address issues around factory farms, corporate accountablity, voter mobilization, and waste dumping
Farm Aid
Grant$10,000.00 in 2000
SourceDonor's Website
DetailsTo support work toward competitive livestock markets and against industrialisation in agriculture.

Top Funders and Grantees

Funding From Foundations
& Corporations

Total Donated

Time Frame
Bush Foundation $412,500.00 1995 – 2003
Educational Foundation of America $260,000.00 1999 – 2000
Northwest Area Foundation $182,500.00 1992 – 1995
Beldon Fund $155,000.00 1995 – 2001
Public Welfare Foundation $152,500.00 1990 – 1998
Belvedere Fund $120,000.00 2000 – 2001
Needmor Fund $100,000.00 1991 – 1999
Catholic Campaign for Human Development $92,000.00 2000 – 2002
Florence Fund $85,000.00 2002 – 2002
Proteus Fund $85,000.00 2002 – 2002
Rockefeller Family Fund $60,000.00 2001 – 2002
Farm Aid $55,000.00 1996 – 2002
Prentice Foundation $40,000.00 1998 – 1999
Energy Foundation $40,000.00 2001 – 2001
Blue Moon Fund $27,500.00 1995 – 1995
Ettinger Foundation $25,000.00 1999 – 1999
Jewish Fund for Justice $22,500.00 1996 – 1998
Ben & Jerry's Foundation $17,500.00 1996 – 2000
Common Counsel Foundation $10,000.00 1997 – 1997
Laura Jane Musser Fund $10,000.00 1998 – 1998
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Funding From Other
Activist Groups

Total Donated

Time Frame
Tides Foundation & Tides Center
$81,500.00 1996 – 2003
Western Organization of Resource Councils
$22,500.00 1999 – 2003
Share Our Strength
$18,000.00 1996 – 1996


Foundations listed on ActivistCash.com may provide funding to a wider variety of nonprofit groups than those profiled here. This website focuses on activist groups that concentrate on food- and beverage-related issues.

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