· Private foundation
Guy and Nyda Prater Scholarship
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Guy and Nyda Prater Scholarship’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Blue Mountain Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $4k
- $250k+1 grant · $327k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FDN | $327,473 |
| WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2022 · $9k · revenue +36%- WGWESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2022 · $4k · revenue ×141
- GCGrand Canyon University2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- PLPacific Lutheran Universityone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +2%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IDAHOone grant, 2020 · $2k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDSone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +3%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Guy and Nyda Prater Scholarship funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Guy and Nyda Prater Scholarship. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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