Illinois · Nonprofit
PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES
PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,710,667 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($2,788,359). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $0
What Pillars Community Services does
Mission
Pillars aspires to build healthier communities by making connections and changing lives. We do this by providing quality mental health services, social services (addictions, crisis, domestic violence, sexual assault, children and family services, and housing), and education for people of all ages.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
Mental health - pillars' is a community mental health provider licensed by the state of illinois and accredited by carf. Outpatient mental health services assist our clients to develop strategies to manage the symptoms related to their mental illness and avoid unnecessary hospitalization. We provide recovery-oriented care to help clients fully participate at home, school/work, and in the community. Pillars' mental health services include individual, family, and group counseling, crisis intervention, community support treatment, peer support and linkage to supportive services. Pillars also supports individuals through its state licensed community independent living arrangements program providing case management and living support for several individuals living with serious mental illness. Targeted programs also address early childhood mental health, older adult mental health, grief services for children and bilingual services.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
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 $13M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 54% · 2018 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $253k → $859k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES’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
PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 51% · 2019 86% · 2020 75% · 2021 80% · 2022 86% · 2023 61% — 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
36% of PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
100% of PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.5M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$148k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES: 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 PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,710,667 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($2,788,359). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $4,710,667 in grants to PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE is the largest funder on record, with $2,788,359 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 13 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