Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE PILLARS FOUNDATION
THE PILLARS FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $175,000 to it, the largest being TREASURY INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION INC ($175,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE PILLARS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,403 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,403 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inclocal
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- Stamford Rotary Trust Fundlocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $75k → $100k.
From the IRS filings of THE PILLARS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
THE PILLARS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education InclocalCT · funds 67 organizations near you
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stamford Rotary Trust FundlocalCT · funds 69 organizations near you
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Irving Feintech Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Samuel and Latanya R Jackson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anderson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Elizabeth Pearce Foundation Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abe & Rae Weingarten Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Forman Family Foundationportfolio 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 THE PILLARS 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PILLARS 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE PILLARS FOUNDATION?
- THE PILLARS FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $175,000 to it, the largest being TREASURY INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION INC ($175,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PILLARS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $175,000 in grants to THE PILLARS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PILLARS FOUNDATION?
- TREASURY INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PILLARS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing