Nebraska · Nonprofit
PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST
PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST (Nebraska) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $607,314 to it, the largest being ROBERT & BETHEL KOLAR CHARITABLE TRUST ($220,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $607k
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Prairie Plains Resource Inst does
Mission
Maintaining and restoring nebraska ecosystems - creating opportunities for education, research, stewardship, and community development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Maintain and restore nebraska ecosystems through ecological restoration, land management and prairie preserves, education, and the platte river corridor initiative.
$575,352 spent78% of program spendingSee statement on line 4a of part iii.
$159,577 spent22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $734,929.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.3M to $5.9M (+10%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 9% · 2021 11% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $44k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 PLAINS RESOURCE INST’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 PLAINS RESOURCE INST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 27% · 2019 76% · 2020 59% · 2021 74% · 2022 58% · 2023 46% — 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
33% of PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
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
99% of PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 PLAINS RESOURCE INST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $377k on record.
- Department of the Interior$377k
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 PLAINS RESOURCE INST
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 PLAINS RESOURCE INST: 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 PLAINS RESOURCE INST?
- PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST (Nebraska) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $607,314 to it, the largest being ROBERT & BETHEL KOLAR CHARITABLE TRUST ($220,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $607,314 in grants to PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST?
- ROBERT & BETHEL KOLAR CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST 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 14 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