Oregon · Nonprofit
MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $226,423 to it, the largest being THE KINSMAN FOUNDATION ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $226k
- Net assets
- $161k
What Mark Prairie Historical Society does
Mission
Historic preservation and historic interpretation of the mark prairie schoolhouse and grounds
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mark Prairie Historical Society maintains the mark prairie schoolhouse and its grounds, collects and preserves documents, photographs, and other items pertaining to local history for education and research purposes on behalf of 43 dues paying members, ancestors of the mark family, and the city of canby and clackamas county, oregon.
$10,786 spent100% of program spendingBefore february 2021, the organization's primary focus was maintaining the property and raising funds to accomplish a full historic restoration of the property for future use as a historic interpretation site and for community event use. In february 2021, an ice storm brought an oak tree on the mphs property down on a portion of the historic schoolhouse, crushing a portion of the building. Since that incident, the organization has collected an insurance settlement and is working with donors, the insurance company, and contractors to restore the property.
In 2022 and 2023, the organization hired a design team and a general contractor, obtained building permits, and was able to re-roof the building so the historic interior is no longer exposed to the elements. We have also continued work toward the complete restoration of the schoolhouse. The cost of the work exceeds our anticipated insurance pay out for the damage to the schoolhouse, and has necessitated seeking grant funding and increased fund raising activities. In 2024, Mark Prairie Historical Society continued work toward completing the restoration of the schoolhouse. We raised 200,000 in public grants and 1,250 in private grants to significantly advance the completion of the interior of the schoolhouse.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,786.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $225k to $817k (+263%).
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.
96% of MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $11 → $125k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
How concentrated its funding is
MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 2022 58% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is 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.
Against its field
MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
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Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $226,423 to it, the largest being THE KINSMAN FOUNDATION ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $226,423 in grants to MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- THE KINSMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 9 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing