Wisconsin · Nonprofit
PRAIRIE WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC
PRAIRIE WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,570 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($124,895). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $369k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $340k
- Net assets
- $164k
What Prairie Wildlife Research Inc does
Mission
Prairie wildlife research was established in 2001 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with the mission to research and conserve wildlife species of the prairie and their associated habitats. Pwr works throughout the great plains with federal and state agencies, universities, private landowners, and other non-governmental organizations to conduct timely, economical, and quality studies and projects that contribute to sound management decisions. Pwr's focus includes all wildlife species inhabiting the prairie. Projects include surveys, reintroductions of native species, habitat enhancement projects, and working with others to resolve wildlife-related issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Black footed ferret monitoring and recovery of endangered species. Monitoring of other prairie wildlife species and monitoring of disease agents that threaten endangered animals.
$362,556 spent$91,737 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $362,556.
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 2020 to 2021, from $76k to $116k (+53%).
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 44% · 2021 8% · 2022 62% · 2023 52% · 2024 47% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of PRAIRIE WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% 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.
Chief executive
Travis Livieri
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $24k → $9k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 WILDLIFE RESEARCH 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.
How concentrated its funding is
PRAIRIE WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 35% · 2019 73% · 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“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
11% of PRAIRIE WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
PRAIRIE WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC's revenue grew 81% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding PRAIRIE WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.2M
- Department of Agriculture$720k
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 WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC: 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 WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC?
- PRAIRIE WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,570 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($124,895). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRAIRIE WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $339,570 in grants to PRAIRIE WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRAIRIE WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $124,895 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRAIRIE WILDLIFE RESEARCH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 10 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