Pillar Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841353435
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7196334991
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Senior Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,059
- Expenses
- $85,321
- Assets
- $225,439
- Liabilities
- $6,750
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vickie Heffner (Executive Director)
- Judy Casey (Board President)
- Bertha Koch (Board Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Vickie Heffner (Executive Director)
- Judy Casey (Board President)
- Bill Wright (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
PILLAR primary exempt purpose is to provide lifelong learning opportunities for older adults to keep their brains active as they age.
What it reported doing in 2025
A change in membership structure resulted in more seniors taking classes. Over 150 became members. And class registrations increased 30% from 725 in 2024 to 2425 in 2025. All expenses go to the main program services of proving classes to seniors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.9%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.64; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.