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Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc

Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $497,311 to it, the largest being GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($188,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$73k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$497k
Net assets
$89k
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 68%
01What it does

What Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc does

Mission

The mission of the Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards is to preserve, promote and protect the cultural heritage of the Northern Flint Hills of Kansas.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The Prairie Guards were busy in our 20 Anniversary Year. On June 21 we held an event to dedicate the Park's new main entrance and celebrate 20 years of developing and expanding the Park. 100 friends, neighbors and dignitaries braved the heat to mark the occasion. Captain Mitchell's great grandson cut a ribbon across the park's ADA trail to the swale of the Old Topeka Ft. Riley Road.Other accomplishments include replacement of the Park's Captain Mitchell/Beecher Colony Monument destroyed by vandals in 2024, renovation of all park benches and picnic tables, expansion of our trail network, new interpretive and directional signage, and a permanent Park entrance sign installed at the new main entrance on Mount Mitchell Road.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($169k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($262k)2020 Revenue 105 ($177k) Expenses 670 ($193k) Net assets 12 ($33k)2021 Revenue 115 ($194k) Expenses 395 ($114k) Net assets 43 ($113k)2022 Revenue 50 ($84k) Expenses 140 ($40k) Net assets 60 ($156k)2023 Revenue 106 ($179k) Expenses 876 ($252k) Net assets 40 ($104k)2024 Revenue 59 ($100k) Expenses 407 ($117k) Net assets 32 ($83k)2025 Revenue 43 ($73k) Expenses 232 ($67k) Net assets 34 ($89k)
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Revenue (43)Expenses (232)Net assets (34)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $500k to $33k (−93%).

$500k
$33k
$113k
$156k
$104k
$83k
$89k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,152 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$140k
’19
−$16k
’20
$80k
’21
$44k
’22
−$73k
’23
−$17k
’24
$6k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $122k.

5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc’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

Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

80% 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 Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc.

38%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 40% · 2020 44% · 2021 32% · 2022 52% · 2023 33% — 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

57% of Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

78% of Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $110k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Kansas funders.

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

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Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $387k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,011 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,011 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

84%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc?
Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $497,311 to it, the largest being GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($188,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $497,311 in grants to Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc?
GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $188,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing