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The Pilgrim Foundation at a glance

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The Pilgrim Foundation

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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
66
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$150k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

International$5.5MPhilanthropy$1.7MReligion$1.5MHuman Services$1.1MCommunity Improvement$890kEducation$630kYouth Development$591kEmployment$325kOther$0
02FY2025 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.4M
$30,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METO INC$150,000
IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$145,360
WORLD RELIEF CORPORATION OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION O$130,000
ARUNA PROJECT$100,000
RESTAVEC FREEDOM FOUNDATION$92,854
SINAPIS GROUP$85,000
CURE INTERNATIONAL INC$70,000
NEEMA PROJECT$70,000
LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION$60,000
FRIENDS OF HAITI PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY$55,000
UNSHATTERED INC$50,020
HOPE INTERNATIONAL$50,000
RESTORE NYC INC$50,000
RESTAVEC FREEDOM FOUNDATION$50,000
WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL$50,000
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 (FY20–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRADLE OF HOPE INC: $25k → 7%TIDES CENTER: $30k → 10%RESTORE NYC INC: $38k → 17%HEALING HANDS OF JOY: $30k → 10%THE CHOSEN & DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%LAOLAM: $25k → 9%HEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $40k → 11%MIND THE GAP: $38k → 7%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%HEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $35k → 11%MIND THE GAP: $38k → 7%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%RESTORE NYC INC: $30k → 17%THE CHOSEN & DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $30k → 12%HEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $30k → 11%MIND THE GAP: $20k → 7%TIDES CENTER: $20k → 10%HEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $30k → 11%MIND THE GAP: $18k → 7%HEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $25k → 11%MIND THE GAP: $17k → 7%HEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $25k → 11%MIND THE GAP: $15k → 7%WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 6%HEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $25k → 11%MIND THE GAP: $15k → 7%WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 6%MIND THE GAP: $15k → 7%WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 6%WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 6%WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 6%WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 6%WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 6%BRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $30k → 6%BRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $30k → 6%BRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 6%BRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 6%BRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 6%BRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $20k → 6%BRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $13k → 6%NEEMA PROJECT: $35k → 6%NEEMA PROJECT: $20k → 6%NEEMA PROJECT: $70k → 6%NEEMA PROJECT: $40k → 6%NEEMA PROJECT: $25k → 6%NEEMA PROJECT: $15k → 6%MOMS HOUSE OF PHOENIXVILLE: $20k → 6%MOMS HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $15k → 6%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
ID
IL
MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of The Pilgrim Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Pilgrim Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 57 repeat orgs$555k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
9

Total granted

$10M
$247k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-12%

Still filing today

88%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $307k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationReligionHealthEmploymentOther
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

  • AP
    ARUNA PROJECT
    6× · 2020–2025 · $450k · revenue +106%
  • SG
    SINAPIS GROUP INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $440k · revenue +40%
  • LW
    LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $410k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • PC
    Providence Church
    one grant, 2020 · $65k
  • JD
    Justice Defense Fund
    one grant, 2024 · $52k · revenue 0%
  • BC
    BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES
    one grant, 2020 · $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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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2
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture
3
World Orphans

World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…

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4
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
5
Children's HopeChest

Inspired by Christ's love, Children's HopeChest releases the potential existing within vulnerable communities, starting with the children.

International
6
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
7
Zoe Empowers

Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…

International
8
Harvesters International Ministries

Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community

Religion
9
World Without Orphans Global

World without orphans (wwo) global's vision is that every child would grow up in a safe and loving family, know their heavenly father, and reach their god-given purpose. wwo global's mission is to call and equip national leaders to…

International
10
I58 Global

i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.

Human Services
11
International Needs

International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.

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12
Childcare Worldwide

Childcare Worldwide (CW) transforms children's lives by exposing them to the gospel of Jesus Christ, providing for their physical needs, and sponsoring their education. We connect sponsors with children through Christ-based life centers.…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edify; the most unlike its peers is Mind the Gap. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 79 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/71
Grantees still filing
40/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARUNA PROJECT: $450,000 · InternationalARUNA PROJECTCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $325,000 · InternationalCURE INTERNATIONAL INCMOSAIC SA: $307,500 · InternationalMOSAIC SAHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $285,000 · InternationalHOPE INTERNATIONALFRIENDS OF HAITI PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY: $265,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF HAITI PROVIDENCE U…Edify: $255,000 · InternationalEdifyHOPE WALKS INC: $230,200 · InternationalHOPE WALKS INCJoyCorps Project: $205,000 · InternationalJoyCorps ProjectWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $170,000 · InternationalLINK GLOBAL: $160,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $155,000 · InternationalRose Womens Foundation: $145,000 · InternationalWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $112,500 · International+5 more: $269,350 · International+5 moreRESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $958,835 · OtherRESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATIONGATHERING OF WEST CHESTER: $405,500 · OtherGATHERING OF WEST CHESTERFORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL: $295,000 · OtherFORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONALWORLD RELIEF CORPORATION OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION O: $210,000 · OtherWORLD RELIEF CORPORATION OF NAT…MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP: $145,000 · OtherCONNECTIONS HOMES INC: $120,000 · OtherUNSHATTERED INC: $310,020 · OtherUNSHATTERED INCTHE PARKESBURG POINT: $130,000 · Other+16 more: $908,968 · Other+16 moreIMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,238,347 · PhilanthropyIMPACT INVESTIN…OMPRAKASH INC: $165,000 · PhilanthropyOMPRAKASH INCNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $131,700 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN …PARTNERS RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT: $110,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERS RELIEF…SALTEXCHANGE INC: $70,000 · PhilanthropyNEEMA PROJECT: $285,000 · Human ServicesNEEMA PROJECTRESTORE NYC INC: $252,500 · Human ServicesRESTORE NYC IN…HEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $210,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLINE MINI…BRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $177,600 · Human ServicesBRIDGE ACADEMY…MIND THE GAP: $177,100 · Human ServicesMIND THE GAPWESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $159,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE COMMU…TIDES CENTER: $125,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERMOM'S HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $80,000 · Human Services+5 more: $125,000 · Human Services+5 moreSINAPIS GROUP INC: $440,000 · EducationSINAPIS GRO…DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY: $195,000 · EducationDELAWARE CO…HARVEST CHRISTIAN GROUP INC: $175,000 · EducationHARVEST CHR…DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationDELAWARE CO…METO INC: $150,000 · EducationMETO INCCTC INTERNATIONAL INC: $102,500 · EducationCTC INTERNA…ANDREW L HICKS JR FOUNDATION: $69,500 · EducationFDM FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationLOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION: $410,000 · HealthTHE SPARROW FUND: $190,000 · HealthSPANISH HEALTH MINISTRY INC: $30,000 · Health+1 more: $15,000 · HealthACCOUNTING BEYOND BORDERS: $150,505 · ReligionCRISTA Ministries: $125,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $100,000 · ReligionPraxis Inc: $100,000 · ReligionTHE BIOLOGOS FOUNDATION INC: $77,500 · ReligionPROFESSIONALS IN CHRISTIAN PHILANTHROPY: $20,000 · Religion+1 more: $600 · Religion
International$3,334,550Other$3,483,323Philanthropy$1,715,047Human Services$1,591,200Education$1,332,000Health$645,000Religion$573,605

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 budgetIMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,238,347 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $958,835 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetARUNA PROJECT: $450,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetSINAPIS GROUP INC: $440,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetLOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION: $410,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $325,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNSHATTERED INC: $310,020 over 6y, 14% of budgetMOSAIC SA: $307,500 over 6y, 22% of budgetFORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL: $295,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetNEEMA PROJECT: $285,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $285,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF HAITI PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY: $265,000 over 6y, 47% of budgetEdify: $255,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetRESTORE NYC INC: $252,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetHOPE WALKS INC: $230,200 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetHEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $210,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetJoyCorps Project: $205,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY: $195,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SPARROW FUND: $190,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetBRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $177,600 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetMIND THE GAP: $177,100 over 6y, 45% of budgetHARVEST CHRISTIAN GROUP INC: $175,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $170,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC: $165,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLINK GLOBAL: $160,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetWESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $159,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $155,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetACCOUNTING BEYOND BORDERS: $150,505 over 6y, 16% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMETO INC: $150,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetRose Womens Foundation: $145,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $131,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARKESBURG POINT: $130,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTA Ministries: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTIONS HOMES INC: $120,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $112,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT: $110,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION: $105,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCTC INTERNATIONAL INC: $102,500 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetPraxis Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GATHERING: $96,500 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetASPIRE FOR HUMANITY INITIATIVES: $96,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetMADE TO LOVE INC: $89,350 over 6y, 50% of budgetMOM'S HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $80,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetTHE BIOLOGOS FOUNDATION INC: $77,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGOOD WORKS INC: $75,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSALTEXCHANGE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 4.2% 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.

  • Who funds IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARUNA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds SINAPIS GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNSHATTERED INC ↗
  • Who funds MOSAIC SA ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds NEEMA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HAITI PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Edify ↗
  • Who funds RESTORE NYC INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE WALKS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLINE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds JoyCorps Project ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE SPARROW FUND ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MIND THE GAP ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST CHRISTIAN GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds OMPRAKASH INC ↗
  • Who funds LINK GLOBAL ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds ACCOUNTING BEYOND BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds METO INC ↗
  • Who funds Rose Womens Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PARKESBURG POINT ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CRISTA Ministries ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTIONS HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗

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.

Servant FoundationTen Talents FoundationFirst Fruit IncThe Maclellan Foundat…Micah 68 FoundationThe Signatry Charitab…Dovetail Impact Found…Christian Community F…Love Thy Neighbor TooStewardship FoundationInternational Generos…Connelly Foundation
Servant FoundationKS27.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Ten Talents Foundation · First Fruit Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Micah 68 Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation) · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Love Thy Neighbor Too · Stewardship Foundation · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Connelly 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 The Pilgrim Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pilgrim Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Pilgrim Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pilgrim Foundation 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 79 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-PF 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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