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Liberty Prairie

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$3,010
Largest grant, FY2022
$3,010
Organizations funded a year
1 to 25
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$2.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Liberty Prairie funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationScience & TechYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$3k0%
FY20211$66k0%
FY202018$118k33%
FY201924$108k79%
FY201825$208k92%
FY20173$135kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Environment$386kFood & Nutrition$166kPhilanthropy$40kEducation$8kHousing & Shelter$4kHuman Services$4kPublic Benefit$3kReligion$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Openlands$363,29062%
Angelic Organics Learning Center Inc$151,63643%
The Center for Humans and Nature$10,30020%
Smart Farm of Barrington$6,00031%
The Roberti Community House$3,50020%
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods$3,25021%
Growing Healthy Veterans$2,8902n/a
Mano a Mano Family Resource Center$2,50010%
Lake County Audubon Society$2,0001n/a
Luke 311 Share Center Nfp$1,73811%
Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Liberty Prairie by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Openlands$363,29062%
Angelic Organics Learning Center Inc$151,63643%
The Center for Humans and Nature$10,30020%
Smart Farm of Barrington$6,00031%
The Roberti Community House$3,50020%
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods$3,25021%
Growing Healthy Veterans$2,8902n/a
Mano a Mano Family Resource Center$2,50010%
Lake County Audubon Society$2,0001n/a
Luke 311 Share Center Nfp$1,73811%
Boys & Girls Club of Lake County$1,50010%
Round Lake Area Chamber of Commerce$1,50012%
Illinois Environmental Council General Fund$1,50010%
Barrington Area Conservation Trust Inc$1,5001n/a
Round Lake Area Garden Club$1,5001n/a
Growing Healthy People$1,2501n/a
Waukegan Park District$1,1201n/a
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition$1,0001n/a
AAUW Nursery School$1,00010%
The Land Conservancy of McHenry County$75010%
Moraine Township Charitable Fund Charitable Fund$75010%
The Da Vinci Waldorf School$60020%
Faith in Place$50010%
Johnsburg School District 12$3001n/a
Lake County$2501n/a
The Delta Institute$12510%

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Liberty Prairie supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOpenlands: $363,290 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetAngelic Organics Learning Center Inc: $151,636 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetThe Center for Humans and Nature: $10,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSmart Farm of Barrington: $6,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Roberti Community House: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBrushwood Center at Ryerson Woods: $3,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMano a Mano Family Resource Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLuke 311 Share Center Nfp: $1,738 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake County: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRound Lake Area Chamber of Commerce: $1,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetIllinois Environmental Council General Fund: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAAUW Nursery School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Land Conservancy of McHenry County: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMoraine Township Charitable Fund Charitable Fund: $750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Da Vinci Waldorf School: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFaith in Place: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Delta Institute: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Harold M & Adeline S …The Chicago Community…ForefrontOberweiler FoundationThe Lake County Commu…Grand Victoria Founda…The Lumpkin Family Fo…Gaylord and Dorothy D…AbbVie FoundationThe Gorter Family Fou…Hunter Family Foundat…John and Kathleen Sch…
Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family FoundationIL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Forefront · Oberweiler Foundation · The Lake County Community Foundation · Grand Victoria Foundation · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Liberty Prairie?

Find your warmest path to Liberty Prairie 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.

About Liberty Prairie

How much does Liberty Prairie give?
Liberty Prairie reported 1 grants totaling $3,010 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Liberty Prairie fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Environment (60%), Food & Nutrition (26%), Philanthropy (6%).
Who are Liberty Prairie's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Openlands ($363k), Angelic Organics Learning Center Inc ($152k), The Center for Humans and Nature ($10k).
Does Liberty Prairie fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Liberty Prairie accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Liberty Prairie?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Forefront.
Where is Liberty Prairie based?
Liberty Prairie is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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