How much does Seven Pillars Foundation give?

Seven Pillars Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Seven Pillars Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (56%), Religion (20%), Recreation & Sports (12%).

Who are Seven Pillars Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mercy Multiplied America Inc ($1.9M), Sheridan Kids Life ($434k), Cornerstone Community Church ($325k).

Does Seven Pillars Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Seven Pillars Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Seven Pillars Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc, George Foundation, Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation.

Where is Seven Pillars Foundation based?

Seven Pillars Foundation is based in WY.

Seven Pillars Foundation

Seven Pillars Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Seven Pillars Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.6MReligion$917kRecreation & Sports$553kYouth Development$474kHealth$46kEducation$21kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$7k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
IN HIS WAKES INC	$20,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.5M · 22 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.5M

$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+68%

Still filing today

50%

11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesReligionRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

MM
MERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC
4× · 2017–2020 · $1.9M · revenue +10%
IH
IN HIS WAKES INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $272k · revenue +33% · 32% of their budget
LM
LEGACY MINISTRIES INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $198k · revenue +16%

Funded once

AW
A WOMAN'S CHOICE
one grant, 2017 · $25k
SW
Sheridan Wesleyan Church
one grant, 2019 · $15k
GH
Green Hill Therapy Inc
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -16%

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.

Life Choice Care Center Inc

To provide physical and emotional support to women and their families facing unplanned pregnancies through a christ centered and biblically based approach.

Human Services

Christian Life Ministries

Counsel beleivers who are in need of spiritual and mental healing. bring non believers the good news of the gospel of grace. educate others on how to counsel through the word of god. provide seminars and conferences to enhance christian…

Human Services

A Door of Hope Pregnancy Center

A door of hope pregnancy center is a christ-centered organization that empowers people to make life-affirming and healthy decisions, particularly about sex, pregnancy and relationships.

Health

First Option Care Inc

The mission of first option care inc. is to present jesus christ as savior and lord, to bring compassionate help and hope to women and teens who are unprepared for pregnancy, to present sexual abstinence as a positive lifestyle for…

Human Services

Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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Crossroads Pregnancy Care

Crossroads Pregnancy Care is a Christ-centered and life-affirming ministry, providing hope, help, and healing to families affected by unplanned pregnancies or hurting from past abortions, and promoting sexual integrity. Social services…

Health

Hope Alive Inc

Christ-based ministry with the mission of bringing hope and encouragement with christ-like love to emotionally hurting people through mental health counseling and transitonal housing for homeless women with mental illness.

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Life Choices of North Central Louisiana

See schedule o - mission statement for part i line 1 covers this item

Health

Christian Family Media Ministries Inc

Christian family media ministries, inc operates as christian family radio and has a mission of showcasting god's glory through your story with life changing media.

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Freedom That Lasts Ministries

Ftlm seeks to equip churches to minister to those who are suffering from addiction and equip christians with the resources needed to facilitate spiritual growth in christlike character and biblical wisdom.

Human Services

International Life Change Ministrie

We exist to minister to every facet of a person's life: spiritually, mentally, emtionally, and physically. we call it our life 360 approach. we are wholeheartedly committed to serving god that he may make new, in their entirety, every man…

Religion

Hope Family Ministries Inc

To provide biblical based counseling

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Multiplied America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sweetwater Against Trafficking. 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

15 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. 15 of the 40 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/15

Grantees still filing

9/15

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,400,035Youth Development$617,534Religion$272,133Human Services$209,000Recreation & Sports$97,039Health$10,000

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.

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.

Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation IncWY20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · George Foundation · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Bf & Rose H Perkins Foundation · Chandler H Kibbee and Mercedes K Kibbee Foundation for Children · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

3report 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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