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Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agy

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$198k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Food & Nutrition$830kCommunity Improvement$119kEnvironment$81kArts & Culture$61kPhilanthropy$34kInternational$28kHealth$18kScience & Tech$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $183k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$427k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAIRSHARES CSA COALITION$30,000
ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE$17,500
SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE$15,000
CHAIN COLLABORATIVE$13,155
FARMERS RISING$12,500
GROWING TO GIVE$12,000
REAP FOOD GROUP$12,000
INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER$10,450
ORGANIC GROWERS SCHOOL$10,000
WILD FARM ALLIANCE$10,000
EARTHDANCE$10,000
YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT$10,000
KULA PROJECT$10,000
CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE$10,000
RIVERVIEW GARDENS INC$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC: $8k → 7%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $5k → 10%GROWING TO GIVE: $12k → 9%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
MS
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$898k · 21 repeat orgs$378k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
43

Total granted

$898k
$323k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+47%

Still filing today

81%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • FC
    FAIRSHARE CSA COALITION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $72k · revenue +183%
  • RF
    REAP FOOD GROUP INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +91%
  • SS
    SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $52k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • CD
    COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +44%
  • GI
    GEDAKINA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -47%
  • LT
    LOW TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE CORP
    one grant, 2020 · $17k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sustainable Growers
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2
Development in Gardening

Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.

Community Improvement
3
Organic Farmers Association

The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…

Food & Nutrition
4
Organic Growers Research and Information Sharing N

To facilitate the developement of sustainable food systems by helping groweres to increase their knowledge of agro-ecosystems management and utilization of local and regional marketing strategies.

Food & Nutrition
5
Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

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6
Sprout City Farms

Sprout city farms collaborates with communities to pursue food justice by cultivating innovative, restorative, and educational farms. sprout city farms envisions a thriving and equitable food system supported by a network of farms and…

Food & Nutrition
7
Multinational Exchange for Sustainable a Mesa andor Mesa Inc

MESA connects and cultivates sustainable farmers and food systems leaders around the world.

Education
8
Organic Farm School

As a learning center, the organic farm school trains new farmers to develop and manage farms focused on ecological, economic and social regeneration - simultaneously offerring opportunities for our community and others to learn about their…

Education
9
Land to Learn

Growing a movement for food justice and community wellness through garden-based education.

Food & Nutrition
10
A Greener World

A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…

Food & Nutrition
11
Regenerative Organic Alliance

The roa intends to create a path for agricultural producers of food and fiber to introduce and scale the use of regenerative organic practices in their operation in an effort to increase soil health and carbon through soil. also the roa…

Food & Nutrition
12
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Land Connection Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dlc Nurse and Learn Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…Environmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Affordable Housing Developm…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/60
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,505

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
45/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOOD COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE — $260,000 · OtherFOOD COOPERATIVE INITIATIVEORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE — $70,761 · OtherORGANIC SEED ALLIANCEPUEBLO A PUEBLO — $37,500 · OtherPUEBLO A PUEBLOHASER INC — $29,000 · OtherYOUTH GARDEN PROJECT — $21,500 · Other+26 more — $188,551 · Other+26 moreFAIRSHARE CSA COALITION — $72,442 · Food & NutritionFAIRSHARE CSA COALITIONREAP FOOD GROUP INC — $54,760 · Food & NutritionREAP FOOD GROUP INCSEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC — $52,000 · Food & NutritionSEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INCFONDY FOOD CENTER INC — $35,000 · Food & NutritionFONDY FOOD CENTER INCEarthDance — $32,500 · Food & NutritionEarthDanceANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENT…THE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INCTHE LAND CONNECTION FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Food & NutritionRodale Institute — $15,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more — $20,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 moreKula Project Inc — $28,000 · EnvironmentKula Project…VICTORY GARDEN INITIATIVE INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentVICTORY GARD…INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER — $10,450 · EnvironmentINDIAN CREEK…RIVERVIEW GARDENS INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentRIVERVIEW GA…Wild Farm Alliance — $10,000 · EnvironmentWild Farm Al…CROWN POINT ECOLOGY CENTER — $10,000 · EnvironmentCROWN POINT …GROUNDWORK MILWAUKEE INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentGROUNDWORK M…IOWA VALLEY RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT — $9,000 · EnvironmentIOWA VALLEY …SAVANNA INSTITUTE — $7,500 · EnvironmentSAVANNA INST…Arizona Sustainability Alliance — $6,500 · EnvironmentMALAMA KAUAI — $5,734 · EnvironmentNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $5,000 · EnvironmentGROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 · Environment+2 more — $8,000 · Environment+2 moreThe Chain Collaborative — $49,149 · InternationalRURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION — $20,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EmploymentSOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT — $3,000 · EmploymentGEDAKINA INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementLAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $5,000 · Community ImprovementCarolina Common Enterprise — $4,500 · Community ImprovementLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Community ImprovementGROWING TO GIVE — $12,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE — $5,000 · Human ServicesIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $2,500 · Human Services
Other$607,312Food & Nutrition$346,702Environment$140,184International$69,149Employment$53,000Community Improvement$32,500Human Services$27,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFAIRSHARE CSA COALITION — $72,442 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE — $70,761 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetREAP FOOD GROUP INC — $54,760 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetSEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC — $52,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetThe Chain Collaborative — $49,149 over 5y, 12% of budgetPUEBLO A PUEBLO — $37,500 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetFONDY FOOD CENTER INC — $35,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetEarthDance — $32,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetKula Project Inc — $28,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetYOUTH GARDEN PROJECT — $21,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetGEDAKINA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetRURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LAND CONNECTION FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOrganic Growers School Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRodale Institute — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVICTORY GARDEN INITIATIVE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGROWING TO GIVE — $12,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER — $10,450 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSansum Diabetes Research Institute — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetRIVERVIEW GARDENS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWild Farm Alliance — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCROWN POINT ECOLOGY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGROUNDWORK MILWAUKEE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetIOWA VALLEY RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT — $9,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSAVANNA INSTITUTE — $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDLC NURSE AND LEARN INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetArizona Sustainability Alliance — $6,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMALAMA KAUAI — $5,734 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFarmworker Association of Florida Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF NY I — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROSEDALE COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetGROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUERTA DEL VALLE — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Common Enterprise — $4,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetINTERLACE COMMONS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Clif Family FoundationUNFI FoundationPatagoniaorgFarm Aid IncGreater Cedar Rapids …Windward FundFoundation for Sustai…New Visions FoundationGreen Bay Packers Fou…ImpactassetsincAlliant Energy Founda…Maine Community Found…
Clif Family FoundationCA33.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clif Family Foundation · UNFI Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Farm Aid Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Windward Fund · Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation · New Visions Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agy funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

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How do I get to Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agy?

Find your warmest path to Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agy through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home