· Private foundation
Prairiecare Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISD 622 | $29,520 |
| BECKER PRIMARY SCHOOL | $23,800 |
| FARMINGTON AREA SCHOOLS | $21,000 |
| CORNERSTONE MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY S | $19,666 |
| BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $16,922 |
| GARDEN CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,107 |
| HINCKLEY FINLAYSON SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| LORING NICOLLET ALTERNATIVE HIGH SC | $10,000 |
| ISD 2905 TRI-CITY UNITED | $10,000 |
| BECKER MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON HIGH SCHOOL | $8,429 |
| PRAIRIE WIND MIDDLE SCHOOL | $8,160 |
| DELANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $7,618 |
| ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC CHURCH | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 75% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k 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
- PAPRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #42132× · 2018–2022 · $45k · revenue +245%
- CSCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE2× · 2021–2023 · $40k · revenue +36%
- CMCORNERSTONE MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- SLSPRING LAKE PARK DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $75k
- APAUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2019 · $50k
- RSROBBINSDALE SCHOOLS ISD 281one grant, 2022 · $47k
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.
Our mission is to create and environment with a global perspective that prepares students to excel academically. Our vision is to develop motivated and principled global citizens for lifelong learning and productive citizenship.
We are a student-centered learning community that inspires and supports all learners to achieve excellence through equitable, relevant learning experiences.
By tapping the intrinsic motivation and curiosity of every child, we deliver higher than usual growth.
We provide accelerated curricula in all subjects with an emphasis on math and science.
The World Learner School's mission is to create a school that supports an experiential collaborative learning (Montessori) program that empowers children to unfold their full potential as whole and unique persons in classroom, local and…
It is the mission of arcadia charter school to prepare our students to transition intellectually, emotionally, and ethically to higher education, future employment, and engaged citizenship.
To provide students with a well-rounded and core knowledge-based education.
To prepare scholars to build character and accept of the value of various cultures
The mission of wla is to utilize leadership based programs and strategies grounded in solid research, combined with the demonstrated success of core knowledge curriculum as the basis of a rigorous overall educational program that builds…
SCPA is a public school serving approximately 1,215 students in grades K-12 in Fy 2023-2024. Student retention over a ten year period remains an average of 96% (because the school is a school of parent choice, the Board interpolates a…
To grow an environmentally literate, community impacting learners of excellence
Modern Montessori Charter School is a collaborative learning community rooted in Montessori principles integrated with current technology through an innovative, child-centered approach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Excellence in Learning Academy and the most unlike its peers is Childhood Cancer Community. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 92 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 PRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213 ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDHOOD CANCER COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds 2B CONTINUED ↗
- Who funds LAURA JEFFREY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Change the Outcome ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Northeast College Prep Charter School No 4219 ↗
- Who funds AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Kaleidoscope Charter School No 4118 ↗
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: 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
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 Prairiecare 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.
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.