Funders
Grants from private foundations make up around 67% of our annual operating budget. Below is a list of our recent funders:
- Amalgamated Foundation via JustFund
- Annenberg Foundation
- Delta Institute
- Elevate Energy
- Energy Foundation
- Grand Victoria Foundation
- Green Lands Blue Waters
- Illinois Department of Natural Resources
- Illinois Environmental Council
- Just Transition Fund
- Metropolitan Planning Council
- Mississippi River Network
- National Wildlife Federation
- NC-SARE
- Patagonia
- ReAmp
- Rockefeller Family Fund
- Rural Climate Partnership via Windward Fund
- The Lumpkin Family Foundation
- The McKnight Foundation
- University of Illinois via TCTAC
- Walton Family Foundation
Partners
Prairie Rivers Network is the independent Illinois affiliate of the National Wildlife Federation and benefits from a strong and close relationship, working to achieve shared goals. PRN regularly works also in tandem with other organizations when goals overlap and joint action seems productive. Below is a list of some of our recent partners:
- Abrams Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Chicago
- Agricultural Watershed Institute
- Alliance for the Great Lakes
- American Farmland Trust
- American Rivers
- Association of Illinois Soil and Water Conservation Districts
- Audubon Great Lakes
- Bluegreen Alliance
- Canton Area Citizens for Environmental Issues
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Champaign County Forest Preserve
- Champaign County Soil and Water Conservation District
- Citizens Against Longwall Mining
- Citizens Coal Council
- Citizens Utility Board
- City of Ottawa
- Cole Progressives
- Community Renewal Society
- Delta Institute
- Ducks Unlimited
- DuPage River Salt Creek Workgroup
- Eco-Justice Collaborative
- EarthJustice
- Earthrise Law Center
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Environmental Integrity Project
- Environmental Law & Policy Center
- Faith in Place
- First Presbyterian Church of Urbana Green Team
- Fox Development
- Friends of the Chicago River
- Galena Green Team
- Girl Scout Troop #6129
- Heartland Coalfield Alliance
- ICCAW
- IDEA Farm Network
- IL Headwaters Invasive Plant Partnership
- IL-IN Sea Grant
- Illinois Audubon Society
- Illinois Environmental Council
- Illinois Paddling Council
- Illinois Stewardship Alliance
- Illinois Valley Flood Alliance
- Iroquois Valley Farms, LLC
- Lewis & Clark Legal Clinic
- Liberty Prairie Foundation
- Living Responsibility for the Earth and All People
- LVEJO
- Macon County Soil and Water Conservation District
- Mississippi River Collaborative
- Mississippi River Network
- NAACP Alexander/Pulaski County
- National Wildlife Federation
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Nicollet Island Collation
- Openlands
- Parkland Community College
- Peoria Park District
- Pheasants Forever
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Prairie Land Conservancy
- Prairie Research Institute
- Quad Cities Waterkeeper of the Upper Mississippi river
- ReGenerate Illinois
- River Network
- Savanna Institute
- Sierra Club
- Soil & Water Conservation Districts
- SONA
- Stand Up to Coal
- The Conservation Foundation
- The Izaak Walton League
- The Land Connection
- The Land Conservancy of McHenry County
- The Nature Conservancy
- The Wetlands Initiative
- University of Chicago Abrams Environmental Law Clinic
- University of Illinois Extension
- United Congregations of Metro-East
- Upper Sangamon River Conservancy
- Urbana No Scouts
- US Fish & Wildlife Service
- Water Protection Network
- Wild Farm Alliance
- Woody Perennial Polyculture Research Site
