· Private foundation
Minnesota Prairie Wind Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY | $50,000 |
| TRUMAN HEARTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $34,000 |
| WILD AND FREE WILDLIFE REHAB PROGRAM | $30,000 |
| Greater Kansas City CommunityFoundation | $22,000 |
| Northeast Kansas City Historical Society | $20,000 |
| SAVE THE KC NEON INC | $10,700 |
| Clio Foundation of KC | $10,000 |
| UNITY TEMPLE ON THE PLAZA | $5,000 |
| ACLU of Kansas | $5,000 |
| Ferris (Joyce) Esophageal Cancer Foundat | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY | $5,000 |
| Pet Resource Center | $5,000 |
| Haskell Indian University Foundation | $5,000 |
| Giving the Basics Inc | $5,000 |
| LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI | $5,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Minnesota Prairie Wind Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
- WAWILD AND FREE WILDLIFE REHAB PROGRAM4× · 2022–2025 · $105k · revenue +34%
- TSTHE SCHOOLHOUSE INC3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +50% · 26% of their budget
- PVPRAIRIE VILLAGE MUNICIPAL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- OPOverland Park Historical Society Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +600%
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.
Preservation of historical records and artifacts of morton county, kansas
The museum collects and preserves memorabilia of cowley county, kansas. the museum is open to the public during scheduled hours, and is staffed by a combination of volunteers and staff.
Engage in educational, scientific, and governmental efforts to conserve, develop, and improve the use of land, soil, water, plants, animals, and other natural resources within the state of kansas
To preserve, present and promote history in Franklin County, Kansas.
Public charity
To educate the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of wichita and sedgwick county
The preservation of a victorian house which is a museum and repository for documents and artifacts of leavenworth county,kansas. the preservation of those documents and artifacts. education of historical significance and living history.
The foundation shall further educational and cultural programs relating to zoological activities, establish and maintain zoological facilities, provide for the acquisition and care of species for display and study, and engage in collateral…
To preserve, maintain and restore historical artifacts and information for future generations.
The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Truman Heartland Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Save the Kc Neon Inc. 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 46 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 49 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 TRUMAN HEARTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds WILD AND FREE WILDLIFE REHAB PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE VILLAGE MUNICIPAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE NATURE CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Save the KC Neon Inc ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid of Western Missouri ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ELMWOOD CEMETERY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION WILDLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS ↗
- Who funds PAWSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Atterbury Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 Minnesota Prairie Wind Foundation 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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