· Private foundation
The Pillsbury Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $188k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $538k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THIRD BAPTIST CHURCH | $107,007 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE | $86,000 |
| GREEN LAKE CONFERENCE CENTER | $85,000 |
| RAINBOW ACRES | $83,500 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $76,000 |
| CENTRAL BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $45,000 |
| MEDSEND | $26,000 |
| MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK | $15,500 |
| URBAN LEAGUE STL | $15,000 |
| GATEWAY 180 | $14,500 |
| ST ANDREW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $14,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES | $13,000 |
| AYF | $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 (FY17–24, $654k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- RARAINBOW ACRES8× · 2017–2024 · $572k · revenue +58%
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +57%- PMPROJECT MEDSEND8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- MBMISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCAREone grant, 2020 · $40k
- MBMO BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $39k
- GHGRACE HILL SETTLEMENT HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue -61%
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To improve lives in our global community by educating diverse groups of highly competent and compassionate health professionals.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sisters Circle Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rio Del Mar Parent Alliance. 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 38 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 122 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 RAINBOW ACRES ↗
- Who funds William Jewell College ↗
- Who funds BACONE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MEDSEND ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOMELESS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GET HOPE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH OF BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING LANDS & WATERS ↗
- Who funds The American Youth Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRACE HILL SETTLEMENT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY 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: Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Bookey Family Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · United Way Worldwide
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 Pillsbury 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.
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.