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Pilgrim Souls Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$255k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$80,000
CITIZEN WORKS$30,000
NO KID HUNGRY$25,000
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$25,000
WOUNDED WARRIORS$25,000
THE BUTTERFLY PROJECT$15,000
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS$15,000
SURVIVOR MITZVAH PROJECT$15,000
CITIZEN ADVOCACY CENTER$10,000
OREGON PUBLIC BORADCASTINGPBS$7,500
WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INCPBS$7,500
02The need
02

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 (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE BUTTERFLY PROJECT: $15k → 11%SURVIVOR MITZVAH PROJECT: $15k → 14%NO KID HUNGRY: $25k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIORS: $25k → 14%OREGON PUBLIC BORADCASTINGPBS: $8k → 12%CITIZEN ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 7%WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INCPBS: $8k → 14%DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $25k → 11%CITIZEN WORKS: $30k → 14%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $80k → 14%INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS: $15k → 14%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.
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 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.

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
2
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
3
The Conversationalist
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4
The Witness Institute

The Witness Institute, founded by Rabbi Dr. Ariel Burger and Elisha Wiesel, works to foster a new movement of creative, powerful, and highly effective moral education. (Continued on Schedule O)

Civil Rights
5
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
6
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
7
Anti-Defamation League

Anti-defamation league (the "league") is a leading anti-hate organization that was founded in 1913 in response to an escalating climate of antisemitism and bigotry. (continued in sch. o)its timeless mission is to stop the defamation of the…

Civil Rights
8
Kurt Schork Memorial Fund
Education
9
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
10
Jewish World Watch

Jewish world watch is an expression of judaism in action, bringing help and healing to survivors of mass atrocities around the globe and seeking to inspire people of all faiths and cultures to join the ongoing fight against genocide.

Education
11
Jewish War Veterans of the United States

The Organization was granted a charter as a not for profit corporation for patriotic and educational purposes with special concern for the welfare of veterans. The Organization's principal activities consist of protecting the benefits and…

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12
International Bridges to Justice

In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Window to the World Communications Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Butterfly Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 11 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITIZEN WORKS: $30,000 · OtherCITIZEN WORKSDisabled American Veterans: $25,000 · OtherDisabled American VeteransSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $25,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHWOUNDED WARRIORS: $25,000 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIORSINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $15,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INCALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $80,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISOR…The Butterfly Project: $15,000 · ReligionSurvivor Mitzvah Project: $15,000 · InternationalWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCITIZEN ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$120,000Health$80,000Religion$15,000International$15,000Arts & Culture$15,000Crime & Legal$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Butterfly Project: $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSurvivor Mitzvah Project: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCITIZEN ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $7,500 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Pilgrim Souls Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pilgrim Souls Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Pilgrim Souls Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pilgrim Souls Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 11 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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