California · Nonprofit
CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION
CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,920,000 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($2,875,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,384 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,384 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Monterra Community Fundlocal
- Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Colemanportfolio match
- Living Promise Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
28% of CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $1.6M → $760k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
99% of CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Monterra Community FundlocalCA · funds 1202 organizations near you
- Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Colemanportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Living Promise Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Judith E & Joseph C Cook Jr Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waterstone Supporting Organization Trust 1portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harlan Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fuller Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stewardship Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marvin Buzz Oates Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard and Mary Pat McCormick Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Open Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Menlo Park Presbyterian Church · exempt
- Fuller Theological Seminary · exempt
- Mount Hermon Association Inc · exempt
- Truett Seminary Baylor University · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION?
- CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,920,000 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($2,875,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,920,000 in grants to CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $2,875,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHURCH OF THE PIONEERS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing