How much does Pillars Fund give?

Pillars Fund reported 17 itemized grants totaling $816,290, out of $884,529 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Pillars Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (27%), Community Improvement (18%), Arts & Culture (13%).

Who are Pillars Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Inner-City Muslim Action Network ($586k), Allied Media Projects Inc ($580k), The City University of New York School of Law Foundation Inc ($523k).

Does Pillars Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Pillars Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Proteus Fund Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.

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Illinois · Public charity

Pillars Fund

The mission of the Pillars Fund is to amplify the leadership, narratives, and talents of Muslims in the United States of America to advance opportunity and justice for all. The Organization drives this mission by supporting civic institutions and culture change.

$885k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 17
Itemized grants FY2025: 42
Organizations funded FY2024: 31%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $816k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $70,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 6 to 42; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 10
Total assets, FY2025: $21M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Pillars Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCivil RightsReligionArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	17	$816k	59%
FY2024	42	$2.3M	31%
FY2023	29	$2.0M	3%
FY2022	34	$2.0M	29%
FY2021	29	$940k	14%
FY2020	32	$858k	34%
FY2019	28	$690k	96%
FY2018	6	$116k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Inner-City Muslim Action Network	$586,000	6	1%
Allied Media Projects Inc	$579,500	7	0%
The City University of New York School of Law Foundation Inc	$522,500	6	5%
Dream of Detroit	$511,000	6	28%
Muslim Wellness Foundation	$497,500	6	67%
Institute for Social Policy and Understanding	$485,250	5	9%
Georgia Muslim Voter Project	$449,500	7	11%
Pillars of the Community	$435,000	7	8%
International Museum of Muslim Culture	$307,000	7	9%
Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative	$300,000	3	27%

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All grantees of Pillars Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Inner-City Muslim Action Network	$586,000	6	1%
Allied Media Projects Inc	$579,500	7	0%
The City University of New York School of Law Foundation Inc	$522,500	6	5%
Dream of Detroit	$511,000	6	28%
Muslim Wellness Foundation	$497,500	6	67%
Institute for Social Policy and Understanding	$485,250	5	9%
Georgia Muslim Voter Project	$449,500	7	11%
Pillars of the Community	$435,000	7	8%
International Museum of Muslim Culture	$307,000	7	9%
Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative	$300,000	3	27%
Sirat Chicago	$270,250	4	26%
New Leaders Inc	$256,000	5	0%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$242,000	6	0%
Project South Inc	$242,000	6	2%
Faith in Action Network	$227,000	6	1%
Emgage Foundation Inc	$202,000	6	2%
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute	$201,000	6	1%
IL Muslim Civic Coalition	$200,273	5	13%
Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood For	$196,000	5	5%
Defending Rights and Dissent Inc	$185,000	3	5%
Appellate Project Inc	$170,000	4	7%
Community Partners	$170,000	4	0%
Women Make Movies Inc	$161,000	5	0%
Huron University College Foundation USA	$147,000	6	16%
Muslim Advocates	$112,000	3	3%
Malikah Inc Fka International Muslim Womens Initiative for Self Empowerment	$100,000	4	7%
Center on Muslim Philanthropy	$80,000	3	n/a
Community Initiatives	$80,000	2	0%
National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild Inc	$75,000	3	1%
American Muslim Health Professionals	$75,000	3	15%
Global Deaf Muslim USA	$71,142	3	47%
Documented LTD	$70,000	1	1%
Muslim Power Building Project	$70,000	1	n/a
United States Artists Inc	$70,000	2	1%
The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc	$67,000	2	1%
Manara West	$60,000	1	10%
Harness Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
National Partnership for New Americans	$50,000	2	1%
American Muslim Advisory Counc	$46,000	3	6%
Sahaba Initiative Inc	$42,000	3	4%
Muhsen	$41,000	3	2%
Indiana University Foundation	$40,000	3	0%
Boom Gen Studios LLC	$35,000	1	n/a
Muppies Inc	$33,500	3	13%
Taleef Collective	$31,000	1	3%
Islamic Scholarship Fund	$26,000	2	3%
Unity Productions Foundation	$26,000	1	1%
Macro Media LLC	$25,000	1	n/a
Crossroads Fund	$25,000	1	n/a
University of California San Francisco	$25,000	1	n/a
Muslim Campus Life Corporation	$25,000	1	n/a
Maine People's Resource Center	$25,000	1	0%
Yemeni American Merchant Association Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Auburn Theological Seminary	$25,000	1	0%
The Brooklyn Historical Society	$21,000	1	0%
Children's Museum of Manhattan	$21,000	1	0%
MKY Entertainment Group	$20,000	1	n/a
Muslim Community Network Inc	$20,000	1	2%
Yusra	$20,000	1	n/a
International Council for Refugees and Immigrants Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Just Vision Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Watched Film LLC	$15,000	1	n/a
Student Clubs Of Hbs Inc ETA	$10,000	1	n/a
Asian American Journalists Association	$10,000	1	0%
The University of Georgia Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Black Muslim Leadership Counc	$10,000	1	n/a
Uniondocs Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Chicago Humanities Festival	$10,000	1	0%
Education For Just Peace in Middle East	$10,000	1	0%
Wespac Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Georgetown University	$10,000	1	0%
Hello My Name Is Digital Inc	$8,200	1	n/a

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($356k), not named here.

Pillars Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 57.

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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.

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

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.

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About Pillars Fund

How much does Pillars Fund give?: Pillars Fund reported 17 itemized grants totaling $816,290, out of $884,529 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Pillars Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (27%), Community Improvement (18%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are Pillars Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Inner-City Muslim Action Network ($586k), Allied Media Projects Inc ($580k), The City University of New York School of Law Foundation Inc ($523k).
Does Pillars Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pillars Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Proteus Fund Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is Pillars Fund based?: Pillars Fund is based in IL.