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Pilling Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEECYCLE | $100,000 |
| JUNE PROJECT | $60,000 |
| AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA | $50,000 |
| GRAND COUNTY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS | $40,000 |
| LAMB HOUSE | $40,000 |
| CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNICAL STATE UNIV | $25,000 |
| RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| MOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER | $20,000 |
| TRI-LAKES CARES | $20,000 |
| PRINCESS PROMISE | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LITERACY CENTER | $15,000 |
| GCWIN | $10,000 |
| MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MANUAL | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CLChildren's Literacy Center Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +78%
- COCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue +26%
- PPPrincess Promise Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- UCUVALDE CACTUS JACK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -10% · 59% of their budget
- LFLIFE FOURSQUARE CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $25k
- MPMOUNTAIN PET RESCUEone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Rescue helps in need puppies and dogs and place them in foster homes until they are adopted into new loving forever homes that they so deserve.
Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…
Animal Rescue and Adoption
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
We rescue dogs and cats from high kill and high volume shelters, as well as intake local animals in need, transport them (if needed) to Colorado, house them in foster homes while we provide all required veterinary services, including…
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
dog rescue and adoption
To save dogs from high kill shelters and place them into loving foster homes. Prior to adoption our dogs will be vetted, spayed or neutered and nurtured to join a supportive and loving home environment.
Morgan Humane Society is a Not-For-Profit Corporation staffed mainly by volunteers who work to improve the lives of companion animals in Morgan County Colorado.
provide shelter and care for dogs and cats
Ark-Valley Humane Society's (AVHS) Mission is ensuring the welfare of companion animals through compassion and care. AVHS operated an open-admission animal shelter for Chaffee County, Colorado.
The organization temporarily feeds colorado pets, allowing families to increase their ability to care for pets with the goal of keeping them out of shelters and with their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand County Pet Pals Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fraser Valley Lacrosse Club. 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.
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 field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 52 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The June Project ↗
- Who funds WEECYCLE ↗
- Who funds MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Children's Literacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MANUAL HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds Princess Promise Inc ↗
- Who funds TRI-LAKES CARES ↗
- Who funds DECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds UVALDE CACTUS JACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRASER VALLEY ELEMENTARY PAC INC ↗
- Who funds Columbine Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ARANSAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GRAND COUNTY PET PALS INC ↗
- Who funds ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FRASER VALLEY LACROSSE CLUB ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SHIELD 616 INC ↗
- Who funds Briscoe Animal Resource Center of Uvalde ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Edmund T & Eleanor Quick Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rendezvous Foundation Inc · Grand Park Community Foundation · The Erwin and Linda Arends Foundation · The Community Foundation of Macon County · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Pilling Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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