Illinois · Nonprofit
PRAIRIE STATE CONSERVATION COALITION
PRAIRIE STATE CONSERVATION COALITION (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,574,336 to it, the largest being Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation ($47,223,561). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- Davis Conservation Foundationshared funders
- National Wild Turkey Federation Incportfolio match
- National Wildlife Federationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $110k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 STATE CONSERVATION COALITION’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 STATE CONSERVATION COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
99% 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 STATE CONSERVATION COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 97% · 2021 44% · 2022 81% · 2023 69% — 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
99% of PRAIRIE STATE CONSERVATION COALITION'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 $273k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
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. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Davis Conservation Foundationshared fundersME · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- National Wild Turkey Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Wildlife Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Delta Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sam Shine Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- WD Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Environmental Defense Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John C Bock Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ja Woollam Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- League of Conservation Voters Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Defenders of Wildlifeportfolio 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.
Organizations like PRAIRIE STATE CONSERVATION COALITION
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
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 STATE CONSERVATION COALITION: 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 STATE CONSERVATION COALITION?
- PRAIRIE STATE CONSERVATION COALITION (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,574,336 to it, the largest being Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation ($47,223,561). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PRAIRIE STATE CONSERVATION COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $47,574,336 in grants to PRAIRIE STATE CONSERVATION COALITION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRAIRIE STATE CONSERVATION COALITION?
- Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $47,223,561 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRAIRIE STATE CONSERVATION COALITION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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