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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 88-3784622

Ty Eschenbaum Foundation

A private foundation in Sioux Falls, SD. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 19 grants and $200,965 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Alli Tschetter
PO Box 65
Sioux Falls, SD 57101
(605) 203-1082
[email protected]
Form and materials
Applications should be made through our website: https://www.tyefoundation.org/survivor-scholarships
Deadlines
February 15
Restrictions
Scholarship open to applicants who are youth cancer survivors or who are currently battling with cancer. The scholarship is open to all high school seniors graduating from a south dakota school district and graduates of a south dakota high school who will be enrolled in college as a sophomore, junior, or senior in the fall.

Assets and giving by year

4 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $200,965

    Grants listed
    19
    Assets, end of year
    $677,669

  • Tax year 2024

    $127,000

    Grants listed
    7
    Assets, end of year
    $459,939

  • Tax year 2023

    $127,500

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $302,945

  • Tax year 2022

    $0

    Grants listed
    0
    Assets, end of year
    $195,570

Grants paid in 2025

19 grants, largest first

As listed on the return. Grants to individuals show as “Individual”, with purpose and amount only.

  1. Make-A-Wish SD MtSioux Falls, SD

    Adopt wish kids in SD

    $104,330
  2. Bridges of HopeRapid City, SD

    Supported medical mission trip in liberia

    $35,000
  3. Helping Kids Round FirstFlandreau, SD

    Support work in nicaragua and africa

    $35,000
  4. Individual

    Scholarship

    $2,500
  5. Individual

    Scholarship

    $2,135
  6. Individual

    Scholarship

    $2,000
  7. Individual

    Scholarship

    $2,000
  8. Individual

    Scholarship

    $2,000
  9. Individual

    Scholarship

    $2,000
  10. Individual

    Scholarship

    $2,000
  11. Individual

    Scholarship

    $2,000
  12. Individual

    Scholarship

    $2,000
  13. Individual

    Scholarship

    $2,000
  14. Individual

    Scholarship

    $1,500
  15. Individual

    Scholarship

    $1,500
  16. Individual

    Scholarship

    $1,000
  17. Individual

    Scholarship

    $750
  18. Individual

    Scholarship

    $750
  19. Individual

    Scholarship

    $500

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. International aid1 grant $35,00050% of the total
  2. Sports and recreation1 grant $35,00050% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. South Dakota3 grants $174,330

Officers, directors and trustees

8 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Ty EschenbaumPRESIDENT Hours 5Pay $0
  • Jody EschenbaumTRUSTEE Hours 0.5Pay $0
  • Sandy JungwirthTRUSTEE Hours 0.2Pay $0
  • Ryan EichlerTRUSTEE Hours 0.5Pay $0
  • Kevin MoeTRUSTEE Hours 0.5Pay $0
  • Kevin PaulsenTRUSTEE Hours 0.2Pay $0
  • Whitney PaulsenTRUSTEE Hours 0.5Pay $0
  • Allison TschetterEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Hours 25Pay $52,673

The return

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