· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- GFGRAND FOUNDATION WILDFIRE RELIEFone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 52 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds GRAND COUNTY PET PALS INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRASER VALLEY LACROSSE CLUB ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SHIELD 616 INC ↗
- Who funds Briscoe Animal Resource Center of Uvalde ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pilling Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pilling Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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