Minnesota · Nonprofit
PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES
PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,768,417 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($7,846,753). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 127
- Grants received
- $40M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Pillsbury United Communities does
Mission
We are community builders co-creating change towards a just society. We imagine thriving communities where every person has person, social, and economic power.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
See schedule o.social enterprises - Pillsbury United Communities operated 8 social enterprises as workforce development strategies that also meet an important community need. They include: north market community grocery store employing 20+ individuals and serving 2500 customers weekly in an area of north minneapolis designated as a food desert; sisterhood boutique resale shop employing 25 youth interns and providing hundreds of community members with access to culturally appropriate, low cost clothing; krsm radio low power fm community radio station training 51 hosts who provided programming in 6 languages to thousands of listeners; north news community newspaper employing summer 13 youth interns and highlighting underheard stories of minneapolis' northside to a circulation of 10,000; breaking ice theatre based inclusion and belonging training employing 40 theatre artists to deliver performances to more than 7500 people; full cycle bike shop employing 12 unhoused young people to learn bike mechanics, supplying bikes to 200+ unhoused young people, and providing connections to resources through street outreach to more than 850 youth; pillsbury house theatre employing over 200…
$10,613,697 spent$2,622,029 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,613,697.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $12M to $16M (+39%).
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: 2018 51% · 2019 33% · 2020 27% · 2021 27% · 2022 26% · 2023 25% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Cinnamon Pelly
President & CEO
Board chair
Kaori Yamada
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $5.8M.
19 of 127 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 127 funders by total. 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
PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
52% 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 PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 44% · 2019 37% · 2020 18% · 2021 17% · 2022 16% · 2023 15% — diversifying over time.
“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
49% of PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
72% of PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $477k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$380k
- Department of Agriculture$97k
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 PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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 PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: 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 PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES?
- PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,768,417 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($7,846,753). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES have?
- IRS filings report 127 organizations giving $39,768,417 in grants to PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES?
- GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $7,846,753 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 127 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing