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Edwin Phillips Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$587k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
50
Grants FY2024
56
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$6,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
23 to 56
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$14M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Edwin Phillips Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving50$587k76%
FY202356$662k100%
FY202223$361kn/a
27% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Youth Development$193kHuman Services$77kArts & Culture$65kHousing & Shelter$59kEmployment$56kEducation$48kHealth$23kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys & Girls Club of Marshfield Inc$125,00022%
Town of Marshfield$3,8002n/a
Plymouth County Family Support Inc$3,50010%
Martinson Elementary School PTO$1,20013%

Plus 113 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

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About Edwin Phillips Trust

How much does Edwin Phillips Trust give?
Edwin Phillips Trust reported 50 grants totaling $587,107 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 56 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Edwin Phillips Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (4%), Human Services (2%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Who are Edwin Phillips Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Club of Marshfield Inc ($125k), Town of Marshfield ($4k), Plymouth County Family Support Inc ($4k).
Does Edwin Phillips Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Edwin Phillips Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Edwin Phillips Trust based?
Edwin Phillips Trust is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 117 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $566k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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