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Prairie Springs Paul A@Fleckenstein Charitable Trust

EIN 46-6723636 · files IRS 990-PF

Given, as filed$9.4m2018–2025 · 118 grants
2018: $2.5m · 16 grants20182019: $1.1m · 18 grants20192020: $1.3m · 13 grants20202021: $2.7m · 16 grants2021$2.7m2022: $976.8k · 16 grants20222023: $473.9k · 16 grants20232024: $174.8k · 13 grants20242025: $99.7k · 10 grants2025$99.7k
Grantees15funded more than once, matching gifts aside
15 of 1515of 15
Assets, year endnot on file
Board and officers3on its latest return

Where it gives

By cause and by place, from its own returns.

By cause

The cause each recipient registered with the IRS

Environment$654.0k
Education$475.0k
Animals$102.0k
Recreation and sports$88.5k
Philanthropy and grantmaking$60.0k
Community improvement$40.0k
Cause not on file$8.0m

Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.

By place

Dollars received, by the recipient's state

half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%

Grants abroad and place not on file: 52 grants · $6.9m

Who it funds most

15 of its 15 grantees were funded in more than one year; 2 matching gifts set aside.

Prairie Springs Paul A@Fleckenstein Charitable Trust's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD

Who funds the same organisations

Counted over its 15 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.

Its board and officers

From its latest return.

Carolyn J ScottTrustee
Joseph Jay ScottTrustee
William R Hughes Co Foley LardnerTrustee

Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2023, filing 202401349349103685

Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.

Its money

What it gave, held and paid, by year.

Giving by year

2018: $2.5m · 16 grants20182019: $1.1m · 18 grants20192020: $1.3m · 13 grants20202021: $2.7m · 16 grants2021$2.7m2022: $976.8k · 16 grants20222023: $473.9k · 16 grants20232024: $174.8k · 13 grants20242025: $99.7k · 10 grants2025$99.7k
Its returns8 filings
Tax yearFormFilingWhere to read it
2025IRS 990-PF202601279349103450IRS batch file
2024IRS 990-PF202511279349103756IRS batch file
2023IRS 990-PF202401349349103685IRS batch file
2022IRS 990-PF202341359349101029IRS batch file
2021IRS 990-PF202221319349104117IRS batch file
2020IRS 990-PF202121329349102522IRS batch file
2019IRS 990-PF202011419349100416IRS batch file
2018IRS 990-PF201941359349101884IRS batch file

An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.

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Prairie Springs Paul A@Fleckenstein Charitable Trust made 118 grants across 2018–2025, totalling $9.4m as filed.

Grants
118
Total, as filed
$9.4m
Years
2018–2025
Filed in
USD

Who it funds

OrganisationGrantsTotal
URBAN ECOLOGY8$3.9m
UW LACROSSE FOUNDATION7$2.0m
ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE4$797.5k
LA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION2$501.4k
CARROLL UNIVERSITY2$475.0k
FRIENDS OF KICKAPOO VALLEY RESERVE3$427.5k
NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE3$256.5k
WISCORPS INC6$122.7k
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION6$102.0k
TEN CHIMNEYS2$100.0k
ALL HANDS BOATWORKS8$88.5k
TALIESIN PRESERVATION5$78.5k
HARBOR DISTRICT6$67.5k
MILWAUKEE RIVERKEEPERS5$55.0k
MILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION4$52.5k

By year

YearGrantsTotal
201816$2.5m
201918$1.1m
202013$1.3m
202116$2.7m
202216$976.8k
202316$473.9k
202413$174.8k
202510$99.7k

Where this came from

Identifier US-EIN-466723636. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.

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  • What they say they exist to do
  • What each grant was for
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  • Balance sheet and financials
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