Speaking of government keeping South Dakota afloat, here’s an up-to-date list from the Bureau of Finance and Management of the 65 organizations that have received grants of over $100,000 from the Governor’s Coronavirus Relief Fund Small Business Non-Profit Fund:
| Vendor # | Vendor Name | Total Paid |
| 12056208 – CV | ABERDEEN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATI | $975959.36 |
| 12012727 – CV | NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM AMERICAS | $608780.00 |
| 12003510 – CV | EAST DAKOTA EDUCATIONAL COOPER | $582449.00 |
| 12628369 – CV | FRIENDS OF LEVITT SIOUX FALLS | $537347.00 |
| 12238420 – CV | DAKOTA ALLIANCE SOCCER CLUB | $500000.00 |
| 12028567 – CV | ELEVATE RAPID CITY | $500000.00 |
| 12363660 – CV | GROW SD | $500000.00 |
| 12547465 – CV | LAKE AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE | $500000.00 |
| 12605656 – CV | ONEHEART A PLACE OF HOPE AND H | $500000.00 |
| 12056348 – CV | ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SIOUX FA | $500000.00 |
| 12029433 – CV | SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASS | $469911.00 |
| 12651575 – CV | NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ECONOMI | $462004.35 |
| 12056428 – CV | SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTR | $437694.00 |
| 12138983 – CV | THE MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRING | $429121.00 |
| 12024600 – CV | GOODWILL OF THE GREAT PLAINS | $425490.00 |
| 12030146 – CV | CENTRAL STATES FAIR | $361617.00 |
| 12042426 – CV | BOOTH SOCIETY INC | $318171.87 |
| 12047235 – CV | WASHINGTON PAVILION MANAGEMENT | $292669.00 |
| 12633913 – CV | SIOUX FALLS HOPE COALITION | $274922.00 |
| 12651930 – CV | JONES, JONATHAN | $273795.91 |
| 12642943 – CV | ADAMS THERMAL SYSTEMS FOUNDATI | $268992.00 |
| 12654567 – CV | YELLOW JACKET FOUNDATION | $250438.00 |
| 12363682 – CV | HOMES ARE POSSIBLE INC | $245796.00 |
| 12212440 – CV | WATERTOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $239565.00 |
| 12029271 – CV | SIOUX EMPIRE FAIR ASSOCIATION | $228905.99 |
| 12120328 – CV | SIOUX EMPIRE COMMUNITY THEATRE | $224257.00 |
| 12029056 – CV | GREATER SIOUX FALLS CHAMBER OF | $222145.00 |
| 12641752 – CV | SHELTER COMMUNITY HOUSING CORP | $220558.00 |
| 12175042 – CV | SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA | $218598.67 |
| 12509915 – CV | YANKTON AREA PROGRESSIVE GROWT | $216019.00 |
| 12030610 – CV | MOUNT RUSHMORE SOCIETY | $200956.11 |
| 12486266 – CV | HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATE | $200686.00 |
| 12056441 – CV | BLACK HILLS PARKS & FORESTS AS | $194235.00 |
| 12165441 – CV | CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT | $192089.00 |
| 12029799 – CV | SOUTH DAKOTA HIGH SCHOOL ACTIV | $186946.00 |
| 12650069 – CV | UNITED SPORTS ACADEMY | $180649.00 |
| 12632095 – CV | SAAB HERITAGE MUSEUM USA | $178142.00 |
| 12017766 – CV | DOWNTOWN SIOUX FALLS INC | $176840.00 |
| 12633114 – CV | HORIZON PLACE APARTMENTS | $176805.00 |
| 12029030 – CV | SD RETAILERS ASSOCIATION | $174532.00 |
| 12012910 – CV | BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY F | $168864.00 |
| 12630726 – CV | TRIPP CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $167652.00 |
| 12166379 – CV | SOUTH DAKOTA AGRI-BUSINESS ASS | $167481.00 |
| 12265237 – CV | BLACK HILLS RAPTOR CENTER INC | $162237.66 |
| 12653909 – CV | NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUN | $148667.00 |
| 12045089 – CV | ST FRANCIS HOUSE | $145994.02 |
| 12036325 – CV | BLACK HILLS HEALTH AND EDUCATI | $143494.00 |
| 12028507 – CV | SOUTH DAKOTA BLACK HILLS BADLA | $137778.00 |
| 12012473 – CV | BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ABERDEEN | $136808.00 |
| 12241426 – CV | RAPID CITY SUMMER NIGHTS | $135128.00 |
| 12648157 – CV | BLACK HILLS ROUNDUP | $134332.00 |
| 12652331 – CV | WINGS OF VALOR INC | $132270.00 |
| 12645556 – CV | BROOKINGS CONVENTION & VISITOR | $130170.00 |
| 12643681 – CV | EMILYS HOPE | $129507.00 |
| 12028876 – CV | HURON CHAMBER & VISITORS BUREA | $127218.00 |
| 12033510 – CV | LUTHERANS OUTDOORS IN SOUTH DA | $126670.00 |
| 12028623 – CV | BROOKINGS AREA CHAMBER OF COMM | $125142.00 |
| 12035610 – CV | BLACK HILLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $118035.00 |
| 12030241 – CV | SIOUX FALLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDA | $116242.68 |
| 12029707 – CV | BLACK HILLS AREA COUNCIL INC | $113711.00 |
| 12188505 – CV | VANTAGEPOINT3 | $111165.00 |
| 12641837 – CV | BLACK HILLS SOCCER FEDERATION | $109504.00 |
| 12631057 – CV | RE-MEMBER | $104151.00 |
| 12565093 – CV | PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF RAPI | $103135.00 |
| 12653960 – CV | SYLTE TRUCKING | $101559.93 |
I’m not sure how Sylte Trucking, a part of the Sylte Farms business over in Ipswich, gets on that list. Maybe BFM just miscategorized that payment. But Sylte is among at least fifteen organizations on that list, including chart topper Aberdeen Development Corporation with its whopper $975,959.36 grant, that are focused on increasing business profits.
Those 65 organizations make up 16% of the 400 successful applicants thus far; they have claimed 66% of the funds disbursed.
Nonprofits at the trough?
Have their finances been jolted?
Rugged trough licking individualists?
I see more of rationale for helping small to medium businesses and restaurants. But big businesses and churches and nonprofits? These people at the trough, many of them, will oppose Medicaid big expansion, automatic voter registration, and other progressive things.
Republicans licking the trough of a very generous Democratic President. They complain through Thunio, Marion Rounds and Dustin Johnson about oh it’s too much of a deficit, but they run like pigs to the Trough.
South Dakota Retailers Association ? Black Hills Soccer Federation? Really?
Not bad for the radical Democrats who elected Joe Biden and how many Republicans voted for the stimulus money? Zero. And they line up, Nonprofit Republicans at the Trough.
Who is Jonathan Jones. Why $273795.91?
Anyone who has ever fed pigs twice a day in the old way (before self-feeding, all they can eat took over) will recall the sound of squealing pigs (provided there were over 5 or 6 of them) fighting to get to the head-of-the-line at the largess provided.
Hence, the picture painted in our minds of those of the political persuasion put forth by the GOP currently rushing like pigs to get to the ‘Trough of Government Money’ is so fitting.
Sad thing is, the SD GOP has been very adept at “hoodwinking” the people of this great state into thinking that only they of the GOP are capable of governing; only they govern off of someone else’s money. Greedy bastards all. Excuse me, should’ve said “bossturds”.
The state should have burned the Trough of Goverment Money immediately upon getting the check in the mail. This is fake money from Mr. Trump.
Two weeks to slow the spread ..
5g causes cancer
The election was a fraud
Covid is not real
This is fun, John! Your turn…