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The Prairie Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $771k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $745k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST HELENA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE SQUARED NETWORK | $120,000 |
| THE FIELDS EDGE | $102,000 |
| WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK | $98,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE | $75,000 |
| MONARCH JUSTICE CENTER | $50,000 |
| ST HELENA MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| KERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FUND | $50,000 |
| NAPA VALLEY WINE LIBRARY | $45,000 |
| SUNRISE HORSE RESCUE | $35,000 |
| PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SACRED HEART CHILDREN'S HOME | $28,941 |
| BRANNAN CENTER | $25,000 |
| CAMEO CINEMA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| RIANDA HOUSE - UPPER VALLEY | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of those 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 +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k 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
- SHSt Helena Hospital Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $340k · revenue +5%
- SHSt Helena Montessori School Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $305k · revenue +25%
- MBMONTEREY BAY LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +26% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- PPROJECT2FOURTEENone grant, 2024 · $72k · revenue -45% · 26% of their budget
- HFHEAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $72k · revenue 0%
- MHMIDLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITYgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue +68%
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.
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.
See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…
Provides short term shelter, housing and other services for the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in bexar county.
Providing mental healthcare to restore hope and healing
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
The organization operates an adult day care facility in midland, texas which offers a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive health and activity program for frail and impaired elderly and disabled residents.
Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
To provide housing for low to moderate income families and to create a community environment that promotes resident education, self-sufficiency, leadership, and volunteerism
Improving lives by providing exceptional and compassionate therapy services.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Center Texas and the most unlike its peers is Permian Basin Honor Flight Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 125 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 St Helena Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds St Helena Montessori School Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds The Fields Edge ↗
- Who funds THE SQUARED NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BASIN DREAM CENTER FOR ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Midland Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT2FOURTEEN ↗
- Who funds HEAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Midland Texas ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM CENTER TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MONARCH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Border Olympics Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds RECORDING LIBRARY OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Laredo College Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO ↗
- Who funds Bethany House of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY ↗
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: 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
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 The Prairie Foundation 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.
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