Louisiana · Private foundation
Leonard & Betty 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.
- $77k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Leonard & Betty Phillips Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $60k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $49k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $84k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $53k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $59k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $58k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $54k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $53k | 64% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shreveport Regional Arts Council | $136,600 | 9 | 1% |
| Louisiana Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries | $29,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $14,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Southfield School Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Duke University | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered | $5,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shreveport Common Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Fred L Phillips Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($258k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leonard & Betty Phillips Foundation 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: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · The Crow Foundation · The Powers Foundation Inc · Grayson Foundation Inc · H E Storer Charitable Foundation · Willis-Knighton Medical Center · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Wheless Foundation · United Way of Northwest Louisiana · The Scott Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Leonard & Betty Phillips Foundation with peer funders
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About Leonard & Betty Phillips Foundation
- How much does Leonard & Betty Phillips Foundation give?
- Leonard & Betty Phillips Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $77,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Leonard & Betty Phillips Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Philanthropy (24%), Arts & Culture (22%).
- Who are Leonard & Betty Phillips Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Shreveport Regional Arts Council ($137k), Louisiana Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries ($29k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($15k).
- Does Leonard & Betty Phillips Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leonard & Betty Phillips Foundation 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 Leonard & Betty Phillips Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Louisiana, Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation, The Crow Foundation.
- Where is Leonard & Betty Phillips Foundation based?
- Leonard & Betty Phillips Foundation is based in LA.
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