· Private foundation
Edward R Pillars Irr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELLA MENDOZA CO PNC BANK | $5,000 |
| TRAIVON COUSINS CO PNC BANK | $5,000 |
| EMILY SALISBURY CO PNC BANK | $5,000 |
| MIA SEAGRO CO PNC BANK | $5,000 |
| BREANNA BARCHUS CO PNC BANK | $5,000 |
| JASMINE GROVES CO PNC BANK | $4,500 |
| JASMINE EVERDING CO PNC BANK | $4,500 |
| ISABELLA LUCIUS CO PNC BANK | $4,500 |
| ISABELLA JONES CO PNC BANK | $4,000 |
| JORDAN FERGUSON CO PNC BANK | $3,500 |
| MASON JOHNSON CO PNC BANK | $3,500 |
| ASHLEY LITTLE CO PNC BANK | $3,500 |
| SYMPHONY HERNANDEZ CO PNC BANK | $3,500 |
| LAURA COOK CO PNC BANK | $3,250 |
| ARIELLE SCOTT CO PNC BANK | $3,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUThe University of Findlay3× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +4%
- FLFOSTORIA LEARNING CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +116%
- TUTiffin University3× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $6k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2017 · $6k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 149 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward R Pillars Irr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward R Pillars Irr. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jacksonville University: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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