Illinois · Nonprofit
Prairie Education & Research Cooperative
Prairie Education & Research Cooperative (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,409 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC GROUP RETURN ($232,909). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Prairie Education & Research Cooperative receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $256k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,968 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Muscular Dystrophy Association Incshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2018 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of Prairie Education & Research Cooperative’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $42k → $10k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $590k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St John's Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis). These are real filings, and they are not money Prairie Education & Research Cooperative raised.
From the IRS filings of Prairie Education & Research Cooperative’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 Education & Research Cooperative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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 Education & Research Cooperative.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 58% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Prairie Education & Research Cooperative draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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.
- Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMD · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Muscular Dystrophy Association Incshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 41 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln InclocalIL · funds 54 organizations near you
- Alliance Nctn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Commonspirit Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Miles for Migraineportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Omega Medical Grants Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Head for the Cure Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- University of Kansas Medical Center Research Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding Prairie Education & Research Cooperative receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$33k
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.
Organizations like Prairie Education & Research Cooperative
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 32 related entities
- Hospital Sisters Health System · exempt
- Hospital Sisters Healthcare-West Inc · exempt
- Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach Corporation · exempt
- Hospital Sisters of St Francis Foundation Inc · exempt
- Hospital Sisters Services Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Prairie Education & Research Cooperative: 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.
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 Prairie Education & Research Cooperative?
- Prairie Education & Research Cooperative (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,409 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC GROUP RETURN ($232,909). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Prairie Education & Research Cooperative have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $256,409 in grants to Prairie Education & Research Cooperative, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Prairie Education & Research Cooperative?
- MAYO CLINIC GROUP RETURN is the largest funder on record, with $232,909 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Prairie Education & Research Cooperative 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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