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.

The Prairie Foundation

The Prairie Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Prairie Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$809kEducation$658kHuman Services$634kHousing & Shelter$571kAnimals$500kArts & Culture$433kRecreation & Sports$276kFood & Nutrition$233kOther$0

02FY2025 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k16 grants · $84k
$10k–50k47 grants · $771k
$50k–250k8 grants · $745k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$42M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
ST HELENA MONTESSORI SCHOOL	$50,000
MONARCH JUSTICE CENTER	$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
RIANDA HOUSE - UPPER VALLEY	$25,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA	$25,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.8M · 73 repeat orgs$976k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.8M

$684k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

Still filing today

63%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther

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

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St Helena Hospital Foundation
3× · 2023–2025 · $340k · revenue +5%
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St Helena Montessori School Inc
4× · 2022–2025 · $305k · revenue +25%
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MONTEREY BAY LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +26% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

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PROJECT2FOURTEEN
one grant, 2024 · $72k · revenue -45% · 26% of their budget
HF
HEAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $72k · revenue 0%
MH
MIDLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITYgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue +68%

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.

Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition

Meals On Wheels of Odessa Inc

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.

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Human Services

San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries Inc

Provides short term shelter, housing and other services for the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in bexar county.

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Samaritan Center Inc

Providing mental healthcare to restore hope and healing

Human Services

Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

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.

Crime & Legal

Mission Health Care Inc

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.

Health

Lone Star Casa Inc

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…

Civil Rights

Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

Human Services

Alamo Area Mutual Housing Association

To provide housing for low to moderate income families and to create a community environment that promotes resident education, self-sufficiency, leadership, and volunteerism

Housing & Shelter

Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center

Improving lives by providing exceptional and compassionate therapy services.

Health

Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Center Texas; 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.

04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 125 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

74/74

Grantees still filing

43/74

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,378,441Human Services$632,500Health$534,675Animals$495,000Education$325,384Recreation & Sports$238,000Housing & Shelter$176,000

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

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.

Abell-Hanger FoundationTX68.6× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Prairie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Prairie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

25report 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Prairie Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Prairie Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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