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The Pillmore Family Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
86% of The Pillmore Family Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 30 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year The Pillmore Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 29 organizations, $488k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k25 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $357k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $54,667 |
| CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH | $48,300 |
| AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $42,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $41,872 |
| HELPING HAND RESCUE MISSION | $40,000 |
| COMPASSION MINISTRIES LTD | $27,000 |
| THE CHUCK COLSON CENTER FOR | $26,295 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $20,000 |
| CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION | $16,000 |
| CANYON MINISTRIES | $15,100 |
| NM ALLIANCE FOR LIFE | $15,000 |
| CHARLOTTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $12,654 |
| SAVE THE STORKS | $12,500 |
| PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| CEO FORUM | $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 (FY17–18, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +66% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2018, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- HHHelping Hand Rescue Mission2× · 2017–2018 · $82k · revenue +40%
- CMCOMPASSION MINISTRIES LTD2× · 2017–2018 · $58k · revenue +151%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM2× · 2017–2018 · $53k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $42k
- CCCHARLOTTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +107%
- AWA WOMAN'S HAVEN PREGNANCY CRISISone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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The mission of worship 24/7 is to ignite a passion for god through worship that results in a life of generosity, discipleship, evangelism, generosity and service.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Outreach International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Canyon Ministries. 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 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 49 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 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Helping Hand Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION MINISTRIES LTD ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Save the Storks ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CEO FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FORGIVEN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Precept ↗
- Who funds CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF ALBUQUERQUE INC ↗
- Who funds CANYON MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LIFE TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHRIST OUR SHEPHERD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HUMAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METHODIST SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TWLOHA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE CAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORTHWHILE WEAR INC ↗
- Who funds MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Foundation for the Carolinas · American Endowment Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Duke Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 The Pillmore Family Foundation 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.