· 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINNAKEE LAND TRUST | $9,459 |
| TABOR ACADEMY | $5,100 |
| NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SUMMER SEARCH BOSTON | $5,000 |
| NANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST | $5,000 |
| HISTORIC RED HOOK | $5,000 |
| DAMIANO CENTER | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH | $4,000 |
| NATIVITY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| HUDSON RIVER ICE YACHT PRESERVATION TRUST | $2,500 |
| PCOM ALUMNI RELATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT | $2,100 |
| SMITH COLLEGE ALUMNI FUND | $2,100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
64 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WLWINNAKEE LAND TRUST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +699%
- NCNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +405%
- HRHUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM6× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +50%
Funded once
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +47%- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DELUTHone grant, 2022 · $3k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ARLINGTONone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
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The northeastern regional association of coastal and ocean observing systems' (neracoos) mission is to produce, integrate and communicate high- quality information that helps ensure safety, economic and environmental resilience, and…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To preserve and steward aquidneck island's open spaces for the lasting benefit of the community while connecting people with the land that defines the island's natural character.
How this is measured
62 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. 62 of the 106 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 WINNAKEE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC RED HOOK ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Flint Hill School ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WALTER REED SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CLERMONT 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ellen and Samuel Phelan Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc: 26% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc: 10% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in: 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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