· Private foundation
Prairie Christian 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFESONG | $35,000 |
| HOUSE OF JOY | $9,500 |
| ROANOKE AC CHURCH | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HOSPITAL LUMINERE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| ROANOKE AC HOME | $3,500 |
| TEAM 224 | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ST JUDE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +110% since the first grant, against +71% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 10 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LILIFESONG INC3× · 2023–2025 · $85k · revenue +3%
- MFMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP8× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +249%
- T2TEAM 224 INC3× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- LFLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +100%
- HMHAITIAN MISSIONSone grant, 2017 · $13k
- TLTRAIL LIFE 356one grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Cornerstone of hope, inc. exists to improve the quality of life for working-class families, veterans, and senior citizens in the low to middle-income bracket who wish to improve their lives and the lives of their children through better…
The Chicago Bible Society is a ministry that distributes Bibles to prisons, hospitals, and shelters and promotes increased reading of the Bible.
To lead the community wide effort to end hunger in eastern iowa and western illinois. we will do this by leveraging partnerships to help people in need to stabilize their lives, engaging the public on hunger issues, advocating on behalf of…
First fruit ministries shares the unconditional love of god through outreach and supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness or trafficking in southeastern north carolina.
Presenting christ to chicago's poor through serving meals to the homeless and hungry and through religious worship services.
To lift people out of poverty by responding to human need with the love of christ.
Morning star mission ministries is a non-denominational organization dedicated to relieving the spiritual and physical hunger of the poor. we do this by providing food for the hungry, clothing for the needy, shelter for the homeless and…
Street samaritans is an illinois not for profit corporation incorporated in 2017. the purpose of the organization is to provide chicagoland's homeless population with fulfillment of their most pressing needs including food, water and…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 95 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Prairie Christian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Prairie Christian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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