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Kermit G Phillips II Charitable Tr Aka Phillips Foundation
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $488k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $580,000 |
| SHIFT EDUCATION | $500,000 |
| GIVING TUESDAY INC | $200,000 |
| PANORAMA GLOBAL | $138,000 |
| LIFT OUR VOICES | $100,000 |
| PANORAMA GLOBAL | $50,000 |
| THE IMPACT | $5,642 |
| CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Kermit G Phillips II Charitable Tr Aka Phillips Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 70% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 65% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AGACTION GREENSBORO3× · 2017–2019 · $1.0M · revenue +36% · 38% of their budget
- TPTANDEM PHILANTHROPIES FKA THE ARK FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $1.0M · revenue ×20
- SESHIFT EDUCATION2× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +602% · 71% of their budget
Funded once
UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INCone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -14%- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Greensboro Incone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -2%
- GRGODLY RESPONSE TO ABUSE IN THEone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Greenwood's mission is to create career pathways in the financial services industry for black and latino college students. we partner with companies to find equitable and inclusive solutions for recruitment, retention, and advancement. our…
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
Gateway research park is a catalyst for university and private research, innovation, and economic development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tandem Philanthropies Fka the Ark Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 26 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION GREENSBORO ↗
- Who funds TANDEM PHILANTHROPIES FKA THE ARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNION SQUARE CAMPUS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GIVING TUESDAY INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greensboro Inc ↗
- Who funds GODLY RESPONSE TO ABUSE IN THE ↗
- Who funds BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAY YES TO EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds RAISE Texas ↗
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: The VF Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation · The Joseph M Bryan Foundation · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Hillsdale Fund · Housing Opportunities Inc · Bell Foundation · Betty J and Robert P Williams Family Foundation · Ta Blue Bell Foundation Main
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 Kermit G Phillips II Charitable Tr Aka 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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