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Prairie Rose Minnesota Community Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Community Improvement$49kEducation$37kHealth$31kRecreation & Sports$29kHuman Services$27kEmployment$20kPublic Benefit$20kCrime & Legal$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$4,390
Median grant
3
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,051
HARDWICK COMMUNITY CLUB$6,963
Individual grant recipient$6,954
JASPER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,100
JASPER COMMUNITY AMBULANCE$4,390
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$2,250
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$1,500
LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
DENVER GO-GETTERS 4H$633
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 16% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CITY OF HARDWICK: $25k → 9%RIDGEWATER COLLEGE: $2k → 9%CARLETON COLLEGE: $1k → 11%MINNESOTA WEST: $1k → 11%SW MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%UNT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $1k → 11%DORDT UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%AUGUSTANA: $1k → 9%LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $1k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 13%CITY OF HARDWICK: $23k → 9%MINNESOTA WEST: $1k → 11%SW STATE: $1k → 11%NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $1k → 9%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 13%CITY OF HARDWICK: $19k → 9%HARDWICK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $15k → 9%CITY OF HARDWICK: $13k → 9%SPRINGWATER TOWNSHIP: $13k → 9%CITY OF HARDWICK: $11k → 9%SPRINGWATER TOWNSHIP: $5k → 9%HARDWICK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 9%CITY OF HARDWICK: $10k → 9%HARDWICK COMMUNITY CLUB: $7k → 9%HARDWICK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $7k → 9%HARDWICK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $7k → 9%HARDWICK COMMUNITY CLUB: $6k → 9%HARDWICK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $6k → 9%HARDWICK COMMUNITY CLUB: $5k → 9%HARDWICK COMMUNITY CLUB: $4k → 9%HARDWICK COMMUNITY CLUB: $3k → 9%CITY OF HARDWICK: $3k → 9%HARDWICK COMMUNITY CLUB: $2k → 9%HARDWICK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 9%JASPER AMBULANCE: $20k → 9%CITY OF JASPER: $18k → 9%JASPER COMMUNITY AMBULANCE: $14k → 9%JASPER COMMUNITY AMBULANCE: $9k → 9%JASPER FIRE DEPT: $7k → 9%JASPER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $7k → 9%JASPER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 9%JASPER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%JASPER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 9%JASPER COMMUNITY AMBULANCE: $4k → 9%JASPER COMMUNITY AMBULANCE: $2k → 9%ROSEDELL DOWNSHIP: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$277k · 15 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
13

Total granted

$277k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+12%

Still filing today

7%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    7× · 2018–2025 · $104k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    6× · 2020–2025 · $46k
  • JC
    JASPER COMMUNITY AMBULANCE
    4× · 2020–2025 · $29k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • CO
    CITY OF JASPER
    one grant, 2018 · $18k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa

Catholic, co-educational, liberal arts university educating at post-secondary & graduate level

Education
2
Union College

Offer a college experience including education, housing, & associated programs in lincoln, ne.

Education
3
Ashland University

Institution of higher education

Education
4
Cornell College

To create a space where students can develop intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage.

Education
5
Lafayette College

Provision of educational services as an accredited four-year undergraduate college.

Education
6
University of the South

An Episcopal University composed of the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Theology.

Education
7
Carleton University

Carleton university provides post secondary education

8
Furman University

Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.

Education
9
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
10
Nebraska Wesleyan University

An academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within a christian environment.

Education
11
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
12
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clarkson University and the most unlike its peers is Lake Area Technical College Alumni Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

5 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $103,672 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $46,185 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJASPER COMMUNITY AMBULANCE — $29,498 · OtherJASPER COMMUNITY AMBULANCEHARDWICK COMMUNITY CLUB — $26,896 · OtherHARDWICK COMMUNITY CLUBIndividual grant recipient — $24,589 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY OF JASPER — $17,977 · OtherCITY OF JASPERIndividual grant recipient — $17,090 · Other+18 more — $42,383 · Other+18 moreUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS — $1,000 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGE — $1,000 · EducationDORDT UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationCLARKSON UNIVERSITY — $750 · Education
Other$328,290Education$3,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetClarkson College — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDORDT UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Clarkson College
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS
  • Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE
  • Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Prairie Rose Minnesota Community Fund 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Prairie Rose Minnesota Community Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Prairie Rose Minnesota Community Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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