Illinois · Nonprofit
NELLIE PRATHER FOUNDATION
NELLIE PRATHER FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($40). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $40
- Net assets
- $75k
What Nellie Prather Foundation does
Mission
Youth and family charitible and educational services
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
YOUTH MENTORING: The NPF mentoring programs supports youth activities and services through the referral and help of the cook county agency which supports children and families. The agency compensates the foundation to provide trained mentors for these services including guidance field trips for positive exposure and experiences. Youth are referred to foundation through the county by caseworkers as they see the need. These mentoring services are provided for troubled youth for different periods of time during the year. NPF may serve from 5 to 50 young people.
$26,872 spent45% of program spendingFAMILY AND YOUTH EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS: Family Educational workshops services - These workshops are provided to parents of students in selected schools at no charges to parents. School administrators selects NPF to present workshop to assist parents in making wise concrete decisions about the growth and education of their children. There is no cost to the parents. NPF CONTINUES TO SERVE several hundred families
$14,928 spent25% of program spendingFREE FOOD PANTRY: Under the continuing leadership of the Nellie Prather Board of Director and its dedicated president Rosemary Prather the Nellie Prather Foundations Food Pantry Nellies Cupboard serves about 100 disadvantaged individuals weekly who lack the resources or funding to provide nutritious meals for their families.The community work is carried out by the dedicated and regular assistance of nearly 30 community volunteers. The volunteers not only organize storge and distribute produce meat and personal items the routinely travel to numerous vendors food store and restaurants to collect a great variety of food items. the Foundation directly impacts more than 3000 community family members each month. The vast majority of those served live within 15 to 20 suburban neighborhoods in Chicagos Cook County Southside areas. In addition Turkey Baskets are distributed at no cost to families during the Thanksgiving Holidays for people that are in need.
$17,915 spent30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,715.
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 2021 to 2022, from $115k to $132k (+15%).
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.
38% of NELLIE PRATHER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Sadie Butler
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $40.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 NELLIE PRATHER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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
100% of NELLIE PRATHER FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
NELLIE PRATHER FOUNDATION's revenue fell 40% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NELLIE PRATHER FOUNDATION?
- NELLIE PRATHER FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($40). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NELLIE PRATHER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40 in grants to NELLIE PRATHER FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NELLIE PRATHER FOUNDATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NELLIE PRATHER FOUNDATION 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.
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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 2 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