Texas · Private foundation
The Prairie Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 51%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 65
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $42M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 51% of the organizations The Prairie Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $645k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 71 | $1.6M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $1.4M | 51% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $650k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $455k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $350k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $375k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Helena Hospital Foundation | $340,000 | 3 | 2% |
| St Helena Montessori School Inc | $305,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Monterey Bay Labrador Retriever Rescue Inc | $240,000 | 5 | 40% |
| Sunrise Horse Rescue | $210,000 | 6 | 11% |
| The Fields Edge | $127,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Squared Network | $120,000 | 1 | 5% |
| West Texas Food Bank | $116,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Basin Dream Center for Orphans | $107,500 | 4 | 6% |
| West Texas Youth Development Inc | $86,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Midland Rape Crisis Center Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Prairie Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Beal Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · Fmh Foundation · Paul and Katherine Morrow Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Prairie Foundation
- How much does The Prairie Foundation give?
- The Prairie Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $1,600,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 65 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Prairie Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Education (14%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are The Prairie Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Helena Hospital Foundation ($340k), St Helena Montessori School Inc ($305k), Monterey Bay Labrador Retriever Rescue Inc ($240k).
- Does The Prairie Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 51% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Prairie Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Prairie Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Abell-Hanger Foundation, Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust, Scharbauer Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Prairie Foundation based?
- The Prairie Foundation is based in TX.
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