Nebraska · Nonprofit
Prairie Pines Partners
Prairie Pines Partners (Nebraska) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,098 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ($41,151). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Prairie Pines Partners does
Mission
Provide leadership to develop Prairie Pines as a site of natural resource conservation for education, research and recreation for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Prairie Pines Partners (PPP) continued to increase free open to the public days at the Prairie Pines Natural Preserve (PPNP). It is now open to the public three days weekly, year around from 9 AM - 5 PM. There were nine nature-based educational events and a fundraising run/walk. The grounds and Visitor Center are also utilized on other days for occasional, scheduled community meetings and use including the Meadowlark Music Festival. In addition, we continue to involve K-12 and collegiate academic programs and others on the site. Our three main areas of expense are for programming/education, public access/property management and administration/salary.
$6,465 spent$3,595 earned by the program97% of program spendingPrairie Pines Partners continues to focus on their mission, that of Prairie Pines Nature Preserve (PPNP) and the donors wishes. These encompass wildlife habitat, natural resource conservation, environmental education, contact with nature and public access. PPNP has been jointly managed by Prairie Pines Partners and Wachiska Audubon (owners) since 2024. Management by two like-minded nonprofits brings new potential and responsibility. We continue to collaborate with other educational institutions and organizations including Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln Public Schools, Nebraska Game & Parks, Conservation Nebraska Community Crops and Wachiska Audubon.
$179 spent3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,644.
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. 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 $1.1M to $890k (−17%).
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 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of Prairie Pines Partners’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $3k → $795.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Pines Partners’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 Pines Partners leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 Pines Partners.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 99% · 2022 84% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
76% of Prairie Pines Partners'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Prairie Pines Partners runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Prairie Pines Partners
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
11% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Prairie Pines Partners: 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 Pines Partners?
- Prairie Pines Partners (Nebraska) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,098 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ($41,151). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Prairie Pines Partners have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $54,098 in grants to Prairie Pines Partners, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Prairie Pines Partners?
- Lincoln Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $41,151 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Prairie Pines Partners find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 6 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