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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.

$885k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $816,290, the rows itemized in this filing. The $884,529 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $68,239 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $693k
$70,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Experience Form LLC$100,000
Regent Park Songs Ltd$100,000
Pillars of the Community$73,000
Documented Ltd$70,000
Detroit Revival Engaging Mus$70,000
Muslim Power Building Project$70,000
Community Initiatives$70,000
INTL MUSEUM MUSLIM CULTURES$70,000
Allied Media Projects$70,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
Indiana University Foundation$20,000
Just Vision Inc$20,000
Malikah$20,000
Student Clubs Of Hbs Inc ETA$10,000
UnionDocs Inc$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.1M) 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 its 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: $73k → 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: $70k → 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
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

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.6M · 40 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
32

Total granted

$8.6M
$705k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
0%

Still filing today

98%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $423k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureCivil RightsReligionHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IM
    INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK
    6× · 2019–2024 · $586k · revenue +40%
  • ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $580k · revenue +58%
  • TC
    THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $523k · revenue +333%

Funded once

  • IF
    Institute for Social Policy
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • MW
    Manara West
    one grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue 0%
  • HI
    Harness Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
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
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
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
5
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
6
American Muslim Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
7
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…

Philanthropy
8
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
9
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
10
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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11
Islamic Networks Inc

Our mission is to promote peace among all, by fostering a deeper more nuanced understanding of muslims and other faith-based, racial/ethnic, and cultural communities, through teaching, learning, and engaging across differences.

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muslim Advocates; 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.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 87 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
39/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Muslim Wellness Foundation: $497,500 · Civil RightsMuslim Wellness Found…Georgia Muslim Voter Project: $449,500 · Civil RightsGeorgia Muslim Voter …MUSLIM ANTI-RACISM COLLABORATIVE: $300,000 · Civil RightsMUSLIM ANTI-RACISM CO…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 …MUSLIM ADVOCATES: $112,000 · Civil RightsMUSLIM ADVOCATESMALIKAH INC FKA INTERNATIONAL MUSLIM WOMENS INITIATIVE FOR SELF EMPOWERMENT: $100,000 · 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 SOUTH…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTE…Appellate Project Inc: $170,000 · EducationAppellate Project I…HURON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION USA: $147,000 · EducationHURON UNIVERSITY CO…Muslim Power Building Project: $70,000 · EducationManara West: $60,000 · Education+7 more: $146,000 · Education+7 moreALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $579,500 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA …INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MUSLIM CULTURE: $307,000 · 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…+4 more: $51,000 · Arts & CultureDream of Detroit: $511,000 · Human ServicesDream of Detr…PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $435,000 · Human ServicesPILLARS OF TH…Documented LTD: $70,000 · Human ServicesDocumented LT…TIDES CENTER: $65,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $50,000 · Human ServicesMuhsen: $41,000 · Human Services+1 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT SOUTH INC: $242,000 · OtherPROJECT SOUTH INCExperience Form LLC: $100,000 · OtherRegent Park Songs Ltd: $100,000 · OtherCenter on Muslim Philanthropy: $80,000 · OtherInstitute for Social Policy: $75,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING: $485,250 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POL…NEO Philanthropy Inc: $242,000 · OtherNEO Philanthropy IncEmgage Foundation Inc: $202,000 · OtherEmgage Foundation IncCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $80,000 · OtherAmerican Muslim Health Professionals: $75,000 · Other+26 more: $516,240 · Other+26 moreINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $586,000 · Community ImprovementINNER-CITY…FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $227,000 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN A…COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $170,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY …SIRAT CHICAGO: $270,250 · ReligionSIRAT CHI…IL Muslim Civic Coalition: $200,273 · ReligionIL Muslim…REVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR: $196,000 · ReligionREVIVING …Global Deaf Muslim USA: $71,142 · ReligionGlobal De…AMERICAN MUSLIM ADVISORY COUNC: $46,000 · ReligionSAHABA INITIATIVE INC: $42,000 · ReligionMUPPIES INC: $33,500 · Religion+1 more: $26,000 · Religion
Civil Rights$1,940,000Education$1,798,500Arts & Culture$1,235,500Human Services$1,192,000Other$2,197,490Community Improvement$983,000Religion$885,165

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $586,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $579,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION INC: $522,500 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetDream of Detroit: $511,000 over 6y, 28% 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 budgetPILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $435,000 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MUSLIM CULTURE: $307,000 over 7y, 8.6% 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 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: $100,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Muslim Health Professionals: $75,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetGlobal Deaf Muslim USA: $71,142 over 3y, 47% of budgetDocumented LTD: $70,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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 budgetIndiana University Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUPPIES INC: $33,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetTaleef Collective: $31,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetIslamic Scholarship Fund: $26,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home