· Private foundation
Douglas H Phelps Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $500
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC | $23,500 |
| UNITED STATES SKI TEAM FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GREEN CORPS INC | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 36% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AVASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC4× · 2017–2021 · $130k · revenue +84%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $101k · revenue +231%- USUnited States Ski Team Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- AAASPEN ART MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue -49%
- BHBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +26%
- PEPROGRESSNOW EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Operates exclusively to manage the investment of endowment gifts made for the benefit of supporting the development, training, and competition of elite national, international, and development athletes in skiing and snowboarding.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
United states skiing foundation is engaged in not-for-profit membership, competition, training, development, and educational activities related to amateur skiers and snowboarders who are, or aspire to become, members of the u.s. ski and…
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.
To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Association ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Climate Defense Project ↗
- Who funds GREEN CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds The Sierra Fund ↗
- Who funds LODO DISTRICT INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Douglas H Phelps Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Douglas H Phelps Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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