Illinois · Private foundation
Prairie Christian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $98k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 27
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $352k
- 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 Prairie Christian Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $98k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $85k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $66k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $20k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $22k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $93k | 54% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $13k | 54% |
| FY2017 | 27 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifesong Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Lifesong for Orphans Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Midwest Food Bank Nfp | $16,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Team 224 Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 3% |
| South Side Christian Academy | $6,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Streator Unlimited Inc | $5,375 | 7 | 0% |
| Summit Point Church | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army | $1,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Dream Center of Peoria Nfp | $1,250 | 1 | 0% |
| The Colorado Trail Foundation | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifesong Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Lifesong for Orphans Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Midwest Food Bank Nfp | $16,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Team 224 Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 3% |
| South Side Christian Academy | $6,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Streator Unlimited Inc | $5,375 | 7 | 0% |
| Summit Point Church | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army | $1,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Dream Center of Peoria Nfp | $1,250 | 1 | 0% |
| The Colorado Trail Foundation | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| South Side Mission of Peoria | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Stoller Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jm Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Roanoke Benson Hope Center | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Berean Prison Ministry Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ashes to Glory Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cope Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 77 recipients with no EIN on record ($276k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Prairie Christian Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Share Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Prairie Christian Foundation
- How much does Prairie Christian Foundation give?
- Prairie Christian Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $98,180 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Prairie Christian Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Philanthropy (23%), Religion (17%).
- Who are Prairie Christian Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lifesong Inc ($85k), Lifesong for Orphans Inc ($25k), Midwest Food Bank Nfp ($16k).
- Does Prairie Christian Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Prairie Christian Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Prairie Christian Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Share Foundation, The US Charitable Gift Trust, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Prairie Christian Foundation based?
- Prairie Christian Foundation is based in IL.
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