Illinois · Nonprofit
PRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING
PRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,311,743 to it, the largest being AREA AGENCY ON AGING FOR LINCOLNLAND INC ($2,857,757). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Prairie Council on Aging does
Mission
The purpose of the agency is to provide an array of services to persons sixty and over, with emphasis on those persons who have the greatest social or economic need, to help them stay in their own homes, independently for as long as possibly, safely.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The agency provides an array of services including: case mangement services, door bell dinners, information and assistance/shap, caregiver resource center, bread of love nutrition program and adult protective services.
$2,004,285 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,004,285.
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.
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 $1.7M to $1.9M (+14%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 31% · 2018 33% · 2019 33% · 2020 38% · 2021 83% · 2022 89% · 2023 87% · 2024 42% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Ginny Fanning
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $424k → $520k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING’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
PRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 86% · 2019 89% · 2020 88% · 2021 87% · 2022 91% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
99% of PRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21 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.
Organizations like PRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds PRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING?
- PRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,311,743 to it, the largest being AREA AGENCY ON AGING FOR LINCOLNLAND INC ($2,857,757). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $3,311,743 in grants to PRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING?
- AREA AGENCY ON AGING FOR LINCOLNLAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,857,757 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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