· Private foundation
L E Phillips Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of L E Phillips Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Donors Trust Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 65 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k77 grants · $162k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $417k
- $250k+4 grants · $4.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $1,420,000 |
| DONORS TRUST | $1,420,000 |
| SHELL LAKE ARTS CENTER | $1,300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WI-EAU CLAIRE FOUNDAT | $793,150 |
| OUR NAWAKWA INC | $200,000 |
| L E PHILLIPS CAREER DEVELOPMENT C | $117,000 |
| THE SEEING EYE | $50,000 |
| FREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC | $50,000 |
| LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $25,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WI FOUNDATION-MADISON | $20,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WI-PLATTEVILLE FOUND | $20,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $20,000 |
| REASON FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +9% since the first grant, against -18% for those funded once.
95 repeat relationships: 81 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 10 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LPLE PHILLIPS CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $899k · revenue +7%
- TSTHE SEEING EYE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +12%
- LPLE PHILLIPS SENIOR CENTER INC3× · 2021–2025 · $215k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- LEL E PHILLIPS MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRone grant, 2021 · $1.5M
- NWNORTHERN WISCONSIN STATE FAIR ASSOCone grant, 2022 · $945k · revenue -66%
- HGHOPE GOSPEL MISSION INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -2%
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.
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How this is measured
90 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. 90 of the 135 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELL LAKE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN WISCONSIN STATE FAIR ASSOC ↗
- Who funds LE PHILLIPS CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds LE PHILLIPS SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OUR NAWAKWA INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CHIPPEWA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMENTARY 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization L E Phillips Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from L E Phillips Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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