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Prairiefire Foundation at a glance

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Prairiefire Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$23k
Granted FY2026still arriving
6
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$73kArts & Culture$40kPhilanthropy$11kPublic Benefit$10kEducation$8kHealth$4kReligion$1kInternational$500Other$0
02FY2026 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$2,125
Median grant
1
States reached
$902
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE INC$12,500
NEW ENERGY ECONOMY INC$2,250
SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO$2,125
NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,125
CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND$2,125
NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE ORION SOCIETY: $1k → 12%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $500 → 16%CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%NEW ENERGY ECONOMY: $3k → 12%CVNM EDUCATION FUND: $3k → 14%TRANSPARENT WATERCOLOR SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $500 → 5%REFUGEEONE: $1k → 14%ORION MAGAZINE: $1k → 12%CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND: $3k → 12%NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $3k → 14%CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%NEW ENERGY ECONOMY: $3k → 12%CVNM EDUCATION FUND: $3k → 14%CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO: $3k → 12%NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $3k → 14%CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO: $3k → 12%NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $2k → 14%SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO: $3k → 12%CVNM EDUCATION FUND: $2k → 14%NEW ENERGY ECONOMY INC: $3k → 12%NEW ENERGY ECONOMY INC: $2k → 12%CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND: $2k → 12%SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO: $2k → 12%NEW ENERGY ECONOMY: $2k → 12%SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO: $1k → 12%INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE INC: $13k → 12%INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE: $12k → 12%NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $12k → 12%NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $12k → 12%INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE INC: $11k → 12%NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $9k → 12%INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE: $9k → 12%1NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $8k → 12%INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE: $7k → 12%NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $4k → 12%NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $3k → 12%NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%IFAM: $1k → 12%IFAM: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$155k · 9 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$155k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+120%

Still filing today

78%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthReligionCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NM
    NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
    6× · 2017–2022 · $47k · revenue +133%
  • NE
    NEW ENERGY ECONOMY INC
    5× · 2022–2026 · $13k · revenue +80%
  • NM
    NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE
    5× · 2022–2026 · $13k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • R
    REFUGEEONEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +190%
  • TO
    THE ORION SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +11%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Conservation Voters New Mexico

To hold elected officials accountable for their environmental votes and to educate voters on conservation issues.

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2
Cimarron Watershed Alliance Inc

To restore, maintain, and/or preserve surface and groundwater quality, aquatic resources, and water supplies. serve as a resource on watershed issues and information. to protect, restore, and maintain natural resources (land, water,…

Environment
3
Northern New Mexicans Protecting Land Water and Rights Inc

Northern new mexicans protecting land water and rights strives to lessen the stress of neighborhood tensions due to lack of information and fair representation. by providing an organization whose main goal is to unite and empower the…

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4
Nmc Inc

New mexico consortium (nmc) integrates the needs of new mexico's research universities to build liason research between local universities and organizations. nmc builds strategic connections with scientific institutions throughout the…

Education
5
Community Power New Mexico
Community Improvement
6
New Mexico Wildlife Federation

The mission of the new mexico wildlife federation is to inspire new mexicans to conserve public landscapes, watersheds, and wildlife for our children's future.

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7
New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association Inc

The mission of the new mexico rural electric cooperatives (nmrec) is to advance protect and advocate member interests.

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8
Natural Resource Governance Institute

Nrgi envisions a world where natural resources enable fair, prosperous and sustainable societies, instead of undermining them. nrgi exists because decisions about how natural resources are governed determine the well-being of people in…

International
9
Northeastern New Mexico Educational Foundation Inc

To provide leadership, build partnerships and enable the innovation necessary to reestablish local food and energy production, strengthen educational systems and establish placemaking in our communities while promoting northeastern new…

Arts & Culture
10
New Mexico Land Conservancy

To preserve new mexico's land heritage by helping people conserve the places they love. nmlc works with landowners and others to protect wildlife habitat, agricultural lands, scenic open space, cultural and historic resources, and…

Food & Nutrition
11
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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12
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety Joni Arends

Educational

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $47,000 · EnvironmentNEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERNEW ENERGY ECONOMY INC: $13,250 · EnvironmentNEW ENERGY ECONOMY INCNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $12,750 · EnvironmentNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE INC DBA IFAM: $51,500 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE IN…+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureSEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO NEWS: $12,125 · OtherSEARCHLIGHT NEW…CVNM EDUCATION FUND: $8,000 · OtherCVNM EDUCATION …IFAM: $2,000 · OtherIFAMIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $13,125 · PhilanthropyCONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND: $5,125 · Civil RightsCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $3,500 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $500 · HealthREFUGEEONE: $1,000 · Religion
Environment$74,000Arts & Culture$52,000Other$23,125Philanthropy$13,125Civil Rights$5,125Health$4,000Religion$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE INC DBA IFAM: $51,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $47,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNEW ENERGY ECONOMY INC: $13,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $13,125 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $12,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO NEWS: $12,125 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ORION SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTransparent Watercolor Society of America: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

Marshall L and Perrin…Santa Fe Community Fo…Thornburg FoundationPatagoniaorgVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation IncNM15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Prairiefire Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Prairiefire Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Orion Society Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 15 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home