· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPENLANDS | $3,010 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 13 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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OOPENLANDS6× · 2017–2022 · $363k · revenue +166%
- AOANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $152k · revenue +15%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR HUMANS AND NATURE2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $15k
- MLMESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $3k
- MAMANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +120%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The mission of heartlands conservancy is to empower and colaborate with the people of southern illinois to advance and protect the health of our distinctive communities and nationally significant natural and cultural resources.
Plant Chicago's mission is to cultivate local circular economies. We envision a paradigm shift in production, consumption, and waste driven at the local level, generating equity and economic opportunity for all residents.
Growing home is a nonprofit usda-certified organic farm and workforce development center, serving the greater englewood community of chicago through innovative paid employment training and nutritious, affordable produce. we believe…
Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
To preserve and restore natural communities in east central illinois, to create interconnected corridors, to provide wildlife habitat, and connect people and nature for future generations.
Heart of the Lakes provides technical assistance, leadership training, and strategic communication tools that help organizations thrive - from grassroots land conservancies to larger regional conservation groups. Programs such as peer…
To educate the public about environmental issues.
To develop knowledgeable and effective leaders to become policy and decision makers for the agricultural industry.
Teach people to grow food in responsible, sustainable ways while nurturing love and gratitude for the land and for each other. Programs are open to the public, free of charge. Food raised will be donated to food pantries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barrington Area Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Roberti Community House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
19 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. 19 of the 51 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds OPENLANDS ↗
- Who funds ANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HUMANS AND NATURE ↗
- Who funds SMART FARM OF BARRINGTON ↗
- Who funds The Roberti Community House ↗
- Who funds BRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS ↗
- Who funds MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LUKE 311 SHARE CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Lake County ↗
- Who funds Round Lake Area Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL GENERAL FUND ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON AREA CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING HEALTHY PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds AAUW Nursery School ↗
- Who funds MORAINE TOWNSHIP CHARITABLE FUND CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF MCHENRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE DA VINCI WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PLACE ↗
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.
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
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 Liberty Prairie 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.
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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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.