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ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,010,922 to it, the largest being THE JEROME MIRZA FOUNDATION ($440,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year. ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

$6.1M
Revenue FY2025
28
Funders on record
$1.0M
Grants received
$27M
Net assets
15/28 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$12M

Recipients

190

Contributions on record

$1.1M

Donors on record

29

Payments out run 11.4x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($15M)2018 Revenue 67 ($3.3M) Expenses 119 ($2.0M) Net assets 108 ($16M)2019 Revenue 54 ($2.7M) Expenses 128 ($2.1M) Net assets 114 ($17M)2020 Revenue 116 ($5.8M) Expenses 172 ($2.8M) Net assets 130 ($19M)2021 Revenue 66 ($3.3M) Expenses 124 ($2.0M) Net assets 157 ($23M)2022 Revenue 59 ($2.9M) Expenses 131 ($2.2M) Net assets 138 ($21M)2023 Revenue 57 ($2.9M) Expenses 225 ($3.7M) Net assets 138 ($21M)2024 Revenue 106 ($5.2M) Expenses 168 ($2.7M) Net assets 161 ($24M)2025 Revenue 123 ($6.1M) Expenses 204 ($3.3M) Net assets 180 ($27M)
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Revenue (123)Expenses (204)Net assets (180)

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.3M
17
$1.4M
18
$581k
19
$3.0M
20
$1.3M
21
$792k
22
$831k
23
$2.5M
24
$2.8M
25
1.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $58k → $115k.

12 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $25k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

92% of ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

MN
IL
NY
MA
MO
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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20
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23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $414k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 1%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

63%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC?
ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,010,922 to it, the largest being THE JEROME MIRZA FOUNDATION ($440,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year. ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,010,922 in grants to ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC?
THE JEROME MIRZA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $440,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 28funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing