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PRAIRIE TRAIL FEDERATION INC

PRAIRIE TRAIL FEDERATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being KEELEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$387k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$192k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Prairie Trail Federation Inc does

Mission

The mission of prairie trail federation, inc. Is to forge ties between father and child. The main theme of the progrm is "father and child companionship". Program services include campouts, tribal meetings, civic service projects and federation events that aim to solidify the relationship between father and child. The members of prairie trail federation,inc. Are committed to being involved in their communtities through charitable causes amd involvement in several worthwhile community programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Forge ties between father and child including campouts, tribal meetings, civic service projects and federation events that aim to solidify the relationship between father and child.

    $378,884 spent$327,819 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $378,884.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($452k) Expenses 100 ($391k) Net assets 100 ($113k)2018 Revenue 102 ($463k) Expenses 120 ($469k) Net assets 95 ($108k)2020 Revenue 68 ($308k) Expenses 68 ($268k) Net assets 144 ($163k)2021 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 7 ($27k) Net assets 120 ($136k)2022 Revenue 67 ($304k) Expenses 67 ($261k) Net assets 159 ($180k)2023 Revenue 97 ($441k) Expenses 101 ($395k) Net assets 199 ($225k)2024 Revenue 73 ($330k) Expenses 98 ($385k) Net assets 150 ($170k)2025 Revenue 86 ($387k) Expenses 93 ($365k) Net assets 169 ($192k)
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Revenue (86)Expenses (93)Net assets (169)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $228k to $179k (−22%).

$113k
$123k
$164k
$136k
$180k
$228k
$179k
$192k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of PRAIRIE TRAIL FEDERATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$61k
’17
−$5k
’18
$40k
’20
−$27k
’21
$44k
’22
$45k
’23
−$55k
’24
$22k
’25
6.3
months of
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.

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Listed34455555
Joined·+1·+4+3+0+0+3
No longer listed·0·33003
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of PRAIRIE TRAIL FEDERATION INC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of PRAIRIE TRAIL FEDERATION INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PRAIRIE TRAIL FEDERATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve6.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like PRAIRIE TRAIL FEDERATION INC

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In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds PRAIRIE TRAIL FEDERATION INC?
PRAIRIE TRAIL FEDERATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being KEELEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PRAIRIE TRAIL FEDERATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to PRAIRIE TRAIL FEDERATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of PRAIRIE TRAIL FEDERATION INC?
KEELEY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PRAIRIE TRAIL FEDERATION INC 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 1 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