New York · Private foundation
Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $90k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,459
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 59
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 57 | $89k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $81k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $52k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $52k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $41k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $47k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $28k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $23k | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winnakee Land Trust Inc | $63,840 | 9 | 1% |
| Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Summer Search | $27,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hudson River Maritime Museum | $24,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Nantucket Preservation Trust Inc | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Historic Red Hook | $12,350 | 4 | 4% |
| Tabor Academy | $10,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Flint Hill School | $7,810 | 6 | 0% |
| Trustees of Deerfield Academy | $7,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Damiano of Duluth Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($128k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Sally S and Robert K Phelan Legacy Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Hudson Valley Foundation for Youth Health · Thomas Thompson Trust · The Ascienzo Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The Thendara Foundation · Henry L Kimelman Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc give?
- Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc reported 58 grants totaling $89,594 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (26%), Arts & Culture (19%), Education (16%).
- Who are Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Winnakee Land Trust Inc ($64k), Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc ($45k), Summer Search ($27k).
- Does Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sally S and Robert K Phelan Legacy Foundation Inc, The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc, Ibm International Foundation.
- Where is Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc based?
- Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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