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Mark R Pryor Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$610k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Mark R Pryor Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2025still arriving2$30k0%
FY20244$19k50%
FY20231$10k0%
FY20222$12k0%
FY20209$22k11%
FY201911$43k0%
FY201811$59kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$190kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kInternational$300

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Viterbo University$92,50070%
Luther High School$21,5003n/a
St Johns Lutheran School$11,9063n/a
Ridgeway Community School$11,13231%
Bluffview Montessori School$4,46330%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($54k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About Mark R Pryor Foundation

How much does Mark R Pryor Foundation give?
Mark R Pryor Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $30,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mark R Pryor Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (98%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%), International (0%).
Who are Mark R Pryor Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Viterbo University ($93k), Luther High School ($22k), St Johns Lutheran School ($12k).
Does Mark R Pryor Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mark R Pryor Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mark R Pryor Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Mark R Pryor Foundation based?
Mark R Pryor Foundation is based in WI.

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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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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