Missouri · 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.
- $822k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $107,007
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 62
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 18
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Pillsbury Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 50 | $822k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $391k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $443k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 62 | $701k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $666k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $640k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $577k | 2% |
| FY2017 | 57 | $591k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow Acres | $571,500 | 8 | 2% |
| American Baptist Assembly | $479,000 | 5 | n/a |
| William Jewell College | $318,900 | 8 | 0% |
| Bacone College | $205,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Central Baptist Theological Seminary | $140,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Baylor University | $99,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Project Medsend | $96,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Missouri Baptist Healthcare Foundation | $78,000 | 3 | 2% |
| St Louis Area Food Bank Inc | $61,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Gateway Homeless Services Inc | $58,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Pillsbury Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About The Pillsbury Foundation
- How much does The Pillsbury Foundation give?
- The Pillsbury Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $821,807 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 62 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Pillsbury Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (34%), Health (20%), Education (14%).
- Who are The Pillsbury Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rainbow Acres ($572k), American Baptist Assembly ($479k), William Jewell College ($319k).
- Does The Pillsbury Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Pillsbury Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Pillsbury Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Commerce Bancshares Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Pillsbury Foundation based?
- The Pillsbury Foundation is based in MO.
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