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Prairiecare Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$241k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
25
Organizations funded FY2023
96%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$8,160
Largest grant, FY2024
$29,520
Organizations funded a year
8 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$188k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 96% of the organizations Prairiecare Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving23$241k87%
FY202325$295k96%
FY202217$343k71%
FY202115$146k73%
FY202013$226k46%
FY201910$203k60%
FY20189$129k56%
FY20178$110kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$986kHealth$614kYouth Development$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Isd 833 - S Washington County$51,7804n/a
Robbinsdale Schools Isd 281$46,5001n/a
Prodeo Academy Charter School #4213$45,10020%
Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe)$40,00020%
Cornerstone Montessori Elementary School$26,27121%
2b Continued$20,000122%
Childhood Cancer Community$20,000117%
Treehouse Inc$20,00010%
Laura Jeffrey Academy$19,73011%
Change the Outcome$18,94313%
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All grantees of Prairiecare Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Isd 833 - S Washington County$51,7804n/a
Robbinsdale Schools Isd 281$46,5001n/a
Prodeo Academy Charter School #4213$45,10020%
Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe)$40,00020%
Cornerstone Montessori Elementary School$26,27121%
2b Continued$20,000122%
Childhood Cancer Community$20,000117%
Treehouse Inc$20,00010%
Laura Jeffrey Academy$19,73011%
Change the Outcome$18,94313%
Twin Cities Academy$18,00020%
Northeast College Prep Charter School No 4219$17,98710%
Aurora Charter School$17,00010%
Bloomington School Dist$16,9221n/a
Kaleidoscope Charter School No 4118$15,00610%
Faribault Public Schools$13,8461n/a
St Paul City School$10,78910%
Fridley Public Schools$10,0001n/a
New Discoveries Montessori Academy$8,90010%
Washburn Center for Children$8,06310%
Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087$6,14110%
KIPP Minnesota$6,00010%
Cologne Academy$5,30010%
Minnesota Excellence in Learning Academy$5,01210%
Northern Lights Community School$5,00010%
Shattuck-St Mary's School$5,00010%
Loyola Catholic Schools$4,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Prairiecare Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetProdeo Academy Charter School #4213: $45,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe): $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCornerstone Montessori Elementary School: $26,271 over 2y, 0.7% of budget2b Continued: $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetChildhood Cancer Community: $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTreehouse Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLaura Jeffrey Academy: $19,730 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetChange the Outcome: $18,943 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTwin Cities Academy: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNortheast College Prep Charter School No 4219: $17,987 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAurora Charter School: $17,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKaleidoscope Charter School No 4118: $15,006 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSt Paul City School: $10,789 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Discoveries Montessori Academy: $8,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $8,063 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087: $6,141 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIPP Minnesota: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCologne Academy: $5,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMinnesota Excellence in Learning Academy: $5,012 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Lights Community School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetShattuck-St Mary's School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

The Minneapolis Found…Minnesota State High …Saint Paul & Minnesot…Tickets for Kids Foun…For Inspiration and R…Think SmallWem FoundationThe Sauer Family Foun…Mightycause Charitabl…Ch Robinson Worldwide…The Richard M Schulze…Charities Aid Foundat…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN19× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Minnesota State High School League Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Tickets for Kids Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Think Small · Wem Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Prairiecare Fund

How much does Prairiecare Fund give?
Prairiecare Fund reported 23 grants totaling $240,922 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Prairiecare Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (58%), Health (36%), Youth Development (1%).
Who are Prairiecare Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Isd 833 - S Washington County ($52k), Robbinsdale Schools Isd 281 ($47k), Prodeo Academy Charter School #4213 ($45k).
Does Prairiecare Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 96% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Prairiecare Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Prairiecare Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Minnesota State High School League Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is Prairiecare Fund based?
Prairiecare Fund is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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