North Carolina · Nonprofit
PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN
PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $243,306 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($191,075). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $546k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $243k
- Net assets
- $303k
What Pilgrims of Ibillin does
Mission
Promote peaceful co-existence through education among diverse cultural and religious groups in israel and palestine.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mar Elias Education: Pilgrims of Ibillin supports the K-12 Mar Elias Educational Institution and accompanying Learning Center. Children of all faiths from across Galilee are welcome to participate in this first-rate educational setting. Students are held to top academic standards and are taught priciples of peace-building, interfaith cooperation, and community engagement. Pilgrims of Ibillin supports scholarships for students, campus improvement projects, building efforts, and enrichment opportunities.
$250,999 spentof which $250,500 as grants81% of program spendingPeace Partners: Peace Partners are organizations selected by the Pilgrims of Ibillin board who exhibit strong alignment with our core mission of building peace through education in Palestine and Israel. While the precise projects vary, we currently support organizations in the West Bank and Gaza through small grant funding on an annual basis. These organizations emphasize interfaith and cross-cultural educational and community-based opportunities. Through our peace partnerships, a further six organizations and their participants are served. These partner organizations are: The Diyar Consortium of Bethlehem (support of girls soccer program), the Seraj Library Project in the West Bank (providing libraries and cultural centers), St. Georges Melkite Catholic Church (providing scholarships and job training), Wiam Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center in Bethlehem (supporting women and youth empowerment and conflict resolution training), Middle East Childrens Alliance Clean Water Project in Gaza (providing life-saving water food, and emergency essentials), and Hope Secondary School in Beit Jala (supporting children who struggle in traditional educational settings who come from…
$32,000 spentof which $32,000 as grants10% of program spendingGrants were handed out for scholarships.
$26,020 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $309,019.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $181k to $317k (+75%).
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.
100% of PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Essrea Cherin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $16k → $22k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN’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
PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2020 56% · 2021 97% · 2022 57% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
33% of PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $240k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN?
- PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $243,306 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($191,075). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $243,306 in grants to PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $191,075 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 8 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing