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The Pillsbury Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$107k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.6MHealth$984kEducation$657kCommunity Improvement$489kEnvironment$345kHousing & Shelter$135kPhilanthropy$134kInternational$69kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $188k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $538k
$4,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RAINBOW ACRES: $106k → 14%GATEWAY 180: $15k → 21%CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $6k → 16%RAINBOW ACRES: $94k → 14%CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $5k → 16%RAINBOW ACRES: $84k → 14%GATEWAY 180: $10k → 21%RAINBOW ACRES: $66k → 14%GATEWAY 180: $8k → 21%RAINBOW ACRES: $64k → 14%GATEWAY 180: $8k → 21%CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $3k → 16%RAINBOW ACRES: $55k → 14%CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $3k → 16%RAINBOW ACRES: $54k → 14%GATEWAY 180: $7k → 21%RAINBOW ACRES: $49k → 14%SEDONA LAGO GARDENS: $7k → 14%GATEWAY 180: $5k → 21%SEDONA LAGO GARDENS: $1k → 14%GATEWAY 180: $3k → 21%GATEWAY 180: $3k → 21%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

ID
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 87 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
26

Total granted

$4.7M
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+13%

Still filing today

40%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RA
    RAINBOW ACRES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $572k · revenue +58%
  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +57%
  • PM
    PROJECT MEDSEND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • MB
    MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • MB
    MO BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $39k
  • GH
    GRACE HILL SETTLEMENT HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue -61%
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
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
2
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
3
Webster University

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.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Loyola University

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…

Education
6
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

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…

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7
Furman University

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.

Education
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

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10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Des Moines University Osteopathic Medical Center

To improve lives in our global community by educating diverse groups of highly competent and compassionate health professionals.

Education
12
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sisters Circle Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 122 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/45
Grantees still filing
30/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THIRD BAPTIST CHURCH: $733,953 · OtherTHIRD BAPTIST CHURCHAMERICAN BAPTIST ASSEMBLY: $479,000 · OtherAMERICAN BAPTIST ASSEMBLYGREEN LAKE CONFERENCE CEN: $322,250 · OtherGREEN LAKE CONFERENCE CENIndividual grant recipient: $247,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $243,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCENTRAL BAPTIST THEOLOGIC: $174,000 · OtherCENTRAL BAPTIST THEOLOGICCENTRAL BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $140,500 · OtherFREEWAY FOUNDATION: $117,500 · Other+87 more: $795,500 · Other+87 moreWilliam Jewell College: $318,900 · EducationWilliam Jewell Co…BACONE COLLEGE: $205,500 · EducationBACONE COLLEGEBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $99,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYPROJECT MEDSEND: $96,000 · EducationPROJECT MEDSEND+7 more: $17,150 · EducationRAINBOW ACRES: $571,500 · Human ServicesRAINBOW ACRESGATEWAY HOMELESS SERVICES INC: $58,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY HOMELES…+2 more: $24,500 · Human ServicesMISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $78,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $9,500 · HealthAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $3,500 · Health+3 more: $2,000 · HealthGET HOPE GLOBAL: $23,750 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC: $22,600 · InternationalSOL International Foundation Inc: $5,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $5,000 · InternationalLIVING LANDS & WATERS: $20,000 · EnvironmentThe American Youth Foundation: $19,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,252,703Education$736,550Human Services$654,000Health$93,000International$56,350Environment$20,000Recreation & Sports$19,500

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 budgetRAINBOW ACRES: $571,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetWilliam Jewell College: $318,900 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBACONE COLLEGE: $205,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $99,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT MEDSEND: $96,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $78,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $61,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY HOMELESS SERVICES INC: $58,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetGET HOPE GLOBAL: $23,750 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH OF BALTIMORE: $23,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $22,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING LANDS & WATERS: $20,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Youth Foundation: $19,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $16,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSEDONA LAGO GARDENS: $8,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFONTBONNE UNIVERSITY: $6,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIO DEL MAR PARENT ALLIANCE: $6,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOL International Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSisters Circle Inc: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN OCEANS INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MISSOURI: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWISCONSIN HOUSING PRESERVATION CORP: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDREAM BIKES INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE ANIMAL RESCUE: $600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORCHARD PLACE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY ISLANDS COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $400 over 4y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Commerce Bancshares F…St Louis Community Fo…St Louis Community Fo…William C Knapp Chari…Bookey Family Foundat…Moneta Group Charitab…World Wide Technology…United Way of Greater…Greater Kansas City C…The Pfizer Foundation…Enterprise Holdings F…United Way Worldwide
Commerce Bancshares FoundationMO18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 122 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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