· Private foundation
Minnesota Prairie Wind Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Operation Wildlife | $5,000 |
| Haskell Indian University Foundation | $5,000 |
| Pawsperity | $5,000 |
| Giving the Basics Inc | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Minnesota Prairie Wind Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WAWILD AND FREE WILDLIFE REHAB PROGRAM4× · 2022–2025 · $105k · revenue +87%
- 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%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 49 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.
- 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 PAWSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION WILDLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS ↗
- Who funds Overland Park Historical Society Inc ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Minnesota Prairie Wind Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minnesota Prairie Wind Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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