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Olin & Muriel Prather Charitable Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of OLIN & MURIEL PRATHER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEREGRINE-HUFF FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART | $4,000 |
| DEWEY DAM DOG & CAT PROTECTION | $4,000 |
| BIG SANDY COLLEGE ED FOUNDATIONS | $4,000 |
| MORRISON SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF PAKERSBURG | $3,000 |
| SYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS | $3,000 |
| BARTER THEATRE | $2,000 |
| PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| COPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| WOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| ALTERNATIVE PREGNANCY CENTER | $1,000 |
| HIS HEALING TOUCH MINISTRIES | $500 |
| MILITARY ASSISTANCE PANTRY INC | $500 |
| THRU THE BIBLE RADIO NETWORK | $500 |
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 (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 15 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 FY2024, 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
- SOSYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS8× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +65%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND DEVE LOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +96%
- WKWILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2019–2024 · $21k · revenue +720%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
- MWMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +580%
- FMFORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +25%
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.
Habitat for humanity of williamson-maury (hfhwm) seeks to put god's love into action by partnering with communites to build affordable housing, inspiring hope and life-changing stability for families through homeownership.
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Restoring hope through a holistic strategy. motivated by mission, we transform lives through the hope of christ, by fighting poverty and spreading the gospel.
Animal shelter - provide a safe haven for animals without homes.
Building relationships to overcome homelessness through diversity, equity, and inclusion in response to god's love for all
The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity wicomico adheres to a…
Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.
Provide safe housing and training to women who were victims of addiction,sex trafficking, abuse, homelesness or previously incarcerated.
Okaloosa habitat for humanity is a non-profit, christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in okaloosa county. we provide opportunites for the community to show god's love in action. through partnership with people…
Communicate gospel by music and art
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. greater fredericksburg habitat for humanity…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo County Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Educational and Deve Lopmental Opportunity School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 42 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 BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND DEVE LOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Wings of God Transition Home Inc ↗
- Who funds SELAHS CENTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds HIS HEALING TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PARKERSBURG ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Thru The Bible Inc ↗
- Who funds MATTAWAN AREA PANTRY IN MATTAWAN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation
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 Olin & Muriel Prather Charitable 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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