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Public Relations Society of America Foundation Inc

The prsa foundation raises funds to fuel the passion, dreams and futures of a diverse range of ambitious and promising students by supporting programs that attract ethnic and racial minorities to careers in public relations (pr), and by developing their capacity to bring the pr perspective to the organizations they serve and to society.

$66k
Granted FY2020
2
Itemized grants FY2020
2
Organizations funded FY2020
50%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$18k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$11,166
Largest grant, FY2020
$11,166
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$1.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 50% of the organizations Public Relations Society of America Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
PhilanthropyOther
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
FY20202$18k50%
FY20191$30k100%
FY20181$20k100%
FY20174$49kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Arts & Culture$37kYouth Development$33kEducation$20kCivil Rights$11kCommunity Improvement$9kEmployment$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Public Relations Society of America Inc$37,09020%
Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers$23,7501n/a
Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation$20,00010%
The Arthur Page Society$11,16610%
Corporate Integration Strategies$9,2001n/a
Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking Inc$8,82611%
Coqual Inc$7,00010%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Public Relations Society of America Foundation Inc

How much does Public Relations Society of America Foundation Inc give?
Public Relations Society of America Foundation Inc reported 2 itemized grants totaling $18,256, out of $65,506 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Public Relations Society of America Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Youth Development (28%), Education (17%).
Who are Public Relations Society of America Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Public Relations Society of America Inc ($37k), Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers ($24k), Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation ($20k).
Does Public Relations Society of America Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Public Relations Society of America Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Public Relations Society of America Foundation Inc based?
Public Relations Society of America Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 7 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $206k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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