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Pillars Fund

To strengthen relations with American Muslims and all Americans.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Civil Rights$2.5MCommunity Improvement$1.7MArts & Culture$1.2MEducation$1.0MCrime & Legal$693kReligion$530kInternational$515kHuman Services$441kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 45 grants below total $2,425,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,738,668 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $313,668 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $425k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.0M
$50,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Inner City Muslim Action Net$155,000
Detroit Revival Engaging Mus$145,000
Defending Rights and Dissent$135,000
Muslim Wellness Foundation$135,000
Institute for Social Policy$130,000
CUNY School of Law$125,000
Georgia Muslim Voter Project$125,000
Allied Media Projects$100,000
Muslim Anti-Racism Collab$100,000
Pillars of the Community$100,000
New American Leaders Inc$75,000
Tides Center$65,000
MSA West$60,000
Community Partners$50,000
Faith In Action Network$50,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $938k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTL Council for Refugees: $20k → 12%Pillars of the Community: $100k → 11%Tides Center: $65k → 10%Pillars of the Community: $100k → 11%Pillars of the Community: $100k → 11%Pillars of the Community: $30k → 11%Pillars of the Community: $16k → 11%Pillars of the Community: $16k → 11%Detroit Revival Engaging Mus: $145k → 21%Detroit Revival Engaging Mus: $125k → 21%Detroit Revival Engaging Mus: $125k → 21%Detroit Revival Engaging Mus: $30k → 21%Detroit Revival Engaging Mus: $16k → 21%National Pship for New Amer: $25k → 14%National Pship for New Amer: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
NE
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
MS
GA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.1M · 39 repeat orgs$715k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
20

Total granted

$8.1M
$445k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
-8%

Still filing today

97%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCivil RightsArts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • IM
    INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK
    6× · 2019–2024 · $586k · revenue +40%
  • TC
    THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $523k · revenue +333%
  • ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $510k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • IF
    Institute for Social Policy
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • HI
    Harness Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • BG
    BOOM GEN STUDIOS LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $35k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Muslim Americans in Public Service

MAPS is a national non-partisan, nonprofit network of professionals and organizations that aim to create an enabling ecosystem for Muslim American public servants to thrive both personally and professionally. Our mission is to support the…

Community Improvement
2
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
3
Center for Islamophobia Studies

The mission of the Center for Islamophobia Studies is to develop a sustained response that both examines the roots of Islamophobia and provides the empirical data to quantify the problem. The Center is focused on developing the tools…

Social Science
4
Muslim Power Building Project

The Muslim Power Building Project (MPBP) provides training, resources, and collaborative learning space for Muslim organizers to advance racial equity, foster collective action, and create sustainable social change by building power rooted…

Education
5
The American Islamic Forum for Democracy

Aifd's mission is to advocate for the preservation of the founding principles of our u.s. constitution, liberty, and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state. public engagement program provides education to the general public on…

International
6
Muslims for Progressive Values

Mpv is creating a culture rooted in human rights in muslim societies in the u.s. and around the world.

Religion
7
Council On American-Islamic Relations of New York

Through legal advocacy, education, media relations, civic engagement and grassroots mobilzation, cair-ny empowers the american muslim community against discrimination.

Civil Rights
8
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
9
American Muslim Community Foundation

The American Muslim Community Foundation cultivates donor giving and diversified funding to advance charitable causes and programs.

Philanthropy
10
California Immigrant Policy Center

The california immigrant policy center upholds the humanity of immigrant communities in california by transforming systems to achieve racial, social, and economic justice.

Civil Rights
11
Cair Michigan Inc

The organizations mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, and empower American Muslims and build coalitions to promote justice and mutual understanding through education, mediation,…

International
12
American Islamic Congress Inc

Established to represent the american muslim community and to advocate for human rights, tolerance, and justice in the united state and the world, and to foster interfaith and interethnic understanding.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muslim Advocates and the most unlike its peers is Huron University College Foundation Usa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Social ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Policy Research and AdvocacyImmigrant Worker SupportAffordable Housing Developm…Jewish Community Organizati…Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/72
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,493

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
38/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Muslim Wellness Foundation — $497,500 · Civil RightsMuslim Wellness Foundat…Georgia Muslim Voter Project — $449,500 · Civil RightsGeorgia Muslim Voter Pr…MUSLIM ANTI-RACISM COLLABORATIVE — $300,000 · Civil RightsMUSLIM ANTI-RACISM COLL…Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute — $201,000 · Civil RightsAction Center on Race &…DEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC — $185,000 · Civil RightsDEFENDING RIGHTS AND DI…MUSLIM ADVOCATES — $112,000 · Civil RightsMUSLIM ADVOCATESMALIKAH INC FKA INTERNATIONAL MUSLIM WOMENS INITIATIVE FOR SELF EMPOWERMENT — $80,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRATION PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD INC — $75,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $20,000 · Civil RightsTHE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION INC — $522,500 · EducationTHE CITY UNIVERSITY …NEW LEADERS INC — $256,000 · EducationNEW LEADERS INCUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $227,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHE…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEE…Appellate Project Inc — $170,000 · EducationAppellate Project In…HURON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION USA — $147,000 · EducationHURON UNIVERSITY COL…Manara West — $60,000 · Education+7 more — $126,000 · Education+7 moreALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $509,500 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA …INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MUSLIM CULTURE — $237,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL…WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $161,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MO…United States Artists Inc — $70,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States…THE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC — $67,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILMMAKER…+3 more — $41,000 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK — $586,000 · Community ImprovementINNER-CITY …FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK — $227,000 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN AC…COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $170,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY P…Dream of Detroit — $441,000 · Human ServicesDream of De…PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY — $362,000 · Human ServicesPILLARS OF …TIDES CENTER — $65,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTE…NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS — $50,000 · Human ServicesMuhsen — $41,000 · Human Services+1 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesSIRAT CHICAGO — $270,250 · ReligionSIRAT CHIC…IL Muslim Civic Coalition — $200,273 · ReligionIL Muslim …REVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR — $196,000 · ReligionREVIVING T…Global Deaf Muslim USA — $71,142 · ReligionGlobal Dea…AMERICAN MUSLIM ADVISORY COUNC — $46,000 · ReligionSAHABA INITIATIVE INC — $42,000 · ReligionMUPPIES INC — $33,500 · Religion+1 more — $26,000 · ReligionPROJECT SOUTH INC — $242,000 · OtherPROJECT SOUTH INCCenter on Muslim Philanthropy — $80,000 · OtherInstitute for Social Policy — $75,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING — $485,250 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL P…NEO Philanthropy Inc — $242,000 · OtherNEO Philanthropy IncEmgage Foundation Inc — $202,000 · OtherEmgage Foundation IncAmerican Muslim Health Professionals — $75,000 · Other+22 more — $452,950 · Other+22 more
Civil Rights$1,920,000Education$1,708,500Arts & Culture$1,085,500Community Improvement$983,000Human Services$979,000Religion$885,165Other$1,854,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK — $586,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION INC — $522,500 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $509,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMuslim Wellness Foundation — $497,500 over 6y, 67% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING — $485,250 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetGeorgia Muslim Voter Project — $449,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetDream of Detroit — $441,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetPILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY — $362,000 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetMUSLIM ANTI-RACISM COLLABORATIVE — $300,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetSIRAT CHICAGO — $270,250 over 4y, 26% of budgetNEW LEADERS INC — $256,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $242,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC — $242,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MUSLIM CULTURE — $237,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK — $227,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $227,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmgage Foundation Inc — $202,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute — $201,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetIL Muslim Civic Coalition — $200,273 over 5y, 13% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR — $196,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetDEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC — $185,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetAppellate Project Inc — $170,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $170,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $161,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHURON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION USA — $147,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetMUSLIM ADVOCATES — $112,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetMALIKAH INC FKA INTERNATIONAL MUSLIM WOMENS INITIATIVE FOR SELF EMPOWERMENT — $80,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetAmerican Muslim Health Professionals — $75,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD INC — $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGlobal Deaf Muslim USA — $71,142 over 3y, 47% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc — $70,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC — $67,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManara West — $60,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN MUSLIM ADVISORY COUNC — $46,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetSAHABA INITIATIVE INC — $42,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetMuhsen — $41,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMUPPIES INC — $33,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetTaleef Collective — $31,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION — $26,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIslamic Scholarship Fund — $26,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYEMENI AMERICAN MERCHANT ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN — $21,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Proteus Fund IncAmalgamated Charitabl…The Chicago Community…American Muslim Commu…Islamic Relief USAThe Ford FoundationTides FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Barzinji Family Found…NEO Philanthropy IncSterling Charitable G…El-Hibri Foundation
Proteus Fund IncMA51.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Proteus Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · American Muslim Community Foundation · Islamic Relief USA · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Barzinji Family Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Sterling Charitable Gift Fund · El-Hibri Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Pillars Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pillars Fund?

Find your warmest path to Pillars Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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