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Pilara Family Foundation at a glance

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Pilara Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$7.2MHealth$876kEducation$550kYouth Development$20k
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $203k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+6 grants · $4.5M
$100,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$1,824,770
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART$916,227
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON$641,043
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART$411,038
ASIAN ART MUSEUM OF SF$406,815
THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION$275,437
DETROIT INSTITUE OF ART MUSEUM$230,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$200,000
CROCKER ART MUSEUM$164,209
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM$118,765
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$109,167
SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA$100,000
ELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION$100,000
STONE RESEARCH FOUNDATION$100,000
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $32k → 16%STANFORD LIBRARY: $11k → 7%DE SAISSET MUSEUM: $46k → 8%Headlands Center For the Arts: $15k → 8%NAPA VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 9%SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $100k → 9%OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA: $47k → 10%THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION: $275k → 10%CROCKER ART MUSEUM: $164k → 12%ELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $200k → 15%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $37k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $641k → 16%THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $68k → 14%DETROIT INSTITUE OF ART MUSEUM: $230k → 21%NERMAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $88k → 5%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: $119k → 17%Block Island Medical Center: $20k → 7%HIGH MUSEUM OF ART: $916k → 13%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $411k → 10%STAFORD UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $100k → 9%UC REGENTS: $5k → 10%SFMOMA: $1.4M → 10%ELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $30k → 17%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $100k → 10%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%Whitney Museum of American Art: $30k → 17%SFMOMA: $38k → 10%J PAUL GETTY MUSEUM: $57k → 14%FRIENDS OF FAI: $14k → 17%SF MOMA: $8k → 10%VARIABLE WEST: $10k → 14%Whitney Museum of American Art: $15k → 17%LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $109k → 14%APERTURE FOUNDATION: $35k → 17%Aperture Foundation: $10k → 17%ASIAN ART MUSEUM OF SF: $407k → 10%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1.8M → 17%CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $15k → 10%CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $10k → 10%CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $10k → 10%STONE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%THE GUARDSMEN: $20k → 10%UCSF FOUNDATION: $200k → 10%UCSF FOUNDATION: $150k → 10%SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY: $300k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
RI
CA
KS
DC
HI
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 9 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$2.5M
$584k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+13%

Still filing today

89%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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Arts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    4× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +37%
  • SM
    SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +10%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    4× · 2020–2024 · $112k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • SH
    Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • QN
    QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +13%
  • SU
    STAFORD UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
3
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
4
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
5
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
6
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
7
Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…

Arts & Culture
8
The National Museum of Women in the Arts

The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…

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9
Honolulu Museum of Art

To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.

Arts & Culture
10
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
11
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,824,770 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $1,552,130 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $916,227 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INCTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $641,043 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTONNevada Museum of Art: $411,038 · Arts & CultureNevada Museum of ArtFINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION: $275,437 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $688,146 · Arts & Culture+11 moreASIAN ART MUSEUM OF SF: $406,815 · OtherASIAN ART MUSEUM…Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory: $300,000 · OtherSacred Heart Cat…DETROIT INSTITUE OF ART MUSEUM: $230,000 · OtherDETROIT INSTITUE…NERMAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $87,555 · OtherNERMAN MUSEUM OF…J PAUL GETTY MUSEUM: $57,362 · OtherDE SAISSET MUSEUM: $45,562 · Other+8 more: $126,175 · Other+8 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $350,000 · EducationSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $200,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $40,000 · EducationQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $200,000 · HealthELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis: $100,000 · Health+1 more: $6,000 · HealthThe Guardsmen: $20,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$6,308,791Other$1,253,469Education$590,000Health$506,000Youth Development$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,824,770 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $1,552,130 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $916,227 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $641,043 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $411,038 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION: $275,437 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $164,209 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $118,765 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $112,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $109,167 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis: $100,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $67,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA: $47,432 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAPERTURE FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Guardsmen: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCREATIVITY EXPLORED INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatchLight: $1,023 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The San Francisco Fou…The Bessemer Giving F…Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…
The San Francisco FoundationCA20.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pilara Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pilara Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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