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Ellis L Phillips 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $202k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,200 |
| ULSTER COUNTY SPCA | $35,000 |
| URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
| ULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK | $21,600 |
| MAKING MUSIC MATTERS | $20,000 |
| HILDEBRAND FAMILY SELF-HELP CENTER | $20,000 |
| LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE | $20,000 |
| BUNKER HILL MONUMENT ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.
Mmf engages, inspires, and grows a supportive audience for classical music, performed at the highest level of artistic excellence, and teaches exceptional young performers in the art of chamber music.
To inspire new generations of musical leaders by enabling artists of diverse ages, nationalities and perspectives to form a nuturing closely knit community devoted to the intensive exploration of chamber music.
The organization operates america's first permanent period orchestra and chorus which reach local, national, and international audiences through a subscription series, touring engagements, recordings, and broadcasts.
Dedham school of music provides an environment for people of all ages, abilities, and means to learn, play, and enjoy music.
To broaden experience, knowledge and enjoyment of every style of new music by embracing the full range of today's compositional activity and giving voice to music that might otherwise not be heard.
To provide a creative youth development program that uses an intensive
The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in bostons urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…
The BPO was formed in 1979 to provide opportunities for an evolving community of amateur student and professional players to perform together present challenging classical repertoire & enhance the publics awareness & understanding of this…
To provide music education and performance to the central massachusetts community.
Monadnock music makes exceptional music accessible to all in intimate and informal settings in the town and villages of the monadnock region and beyond. through a commitment to varied and imaginative performances and teaching, monadnock…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hildebrand Family Self-Help Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Police Accountability Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER MUSIC BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ULSTER COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN ↗
- Who funds SparkShare Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKING MUSIC MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HILDEBRAND FAMILY SELF-HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DARIEN NATURE CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ellis L Phillips Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- Boston Modern Orchestra Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- Darien Nature Center Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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