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Architectural plan view of the Counting House — a banking-hall interior with a teller counter, ledger desks behind it, and a small vault recess at the rear. Hand-drafted in oxidized navy ink on parchment.

South Dakota financial profile

2-Section Cohort (cohort 5) · Single elected/appointed commissioner

Substrate v1.3 · Last reviewed 2026-05-01 · Read the state dossier

Permanent fund corpus

Awaiting State Disclosure

The substrate doesn't yet have a verified corpus value for South Dakota. This is a known gap in the editorial workstream (B-025 hand-curation pass), not an indication that no fund exists.

Most recent distribution

$13,000,000 Verified

Federal grant acreage

3,500,000 acres Verified

Transparency status

Partially disclosed

One of corpus or recent distribution is present in the substrate; the other has not yet been disclosed or extracted.

Governance form

Classification: Single elected/appointed commissioner

Commissioner of School and Public Lands (statewide elected, four-year term); current Commissioner is Brock Greenfield (elected 2022). The Commissioner is supported by the South Dakota Investment Council (constitutional, manages permanent fund corpus) and the South Dakota State Investment Officer.

Blue vertical bar chart titled 'SD Gross Revenue from School Lands' showing annual values in millions from 2001 to 2024, ranging from a low of about $4.3M in 2005 to peaks near $13M in 2012, 2021, and 2024.
Gross revenue from South Dakota school trust lands, 2001-2024 (millions of dollars). Recent peak years (2020-2024) reflect a stable grazing-and-agriculture base with growing oil-and-gas and emergent wind-energy contributions. Source: Advocates for School Trust Lands , South Dakota — Advocates for School Trust Lands (Tonia Day, June 2024). Reproduced for the library by permission.