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Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$406k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
87
Grants FY2024
68
Organizations funded FY2023
34%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
44 to 68
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$4.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving85$406k24%
FY202368$348k34%
FY202262$333k24%
FY202158$321k19%
FY202044$200k9%
FY201963$342k22%
FY201854$364k22%
FY201755$379kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$521kHealth$518kHuman Services$363kArts & Culture$161kYouth Development$139kReligion$133kAnimals$121kPublic Safety & Disaster$118kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
CO
VA
AR
TN
AL
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Andrew's-Sewanee School$232,50080%
Cumberland Heights Foundation Inc$155,00080%
Eckerd College$104,50070%
East Hickman Volunteer Fire Department$95,0006n/a
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art$94,00070%
Men of Valor$87,50081%
Waldens Puddle Wildlife Rehabilitation & Educatio$81,00073%
Dawson Memorial Baptist Church$55,0006n/a
Dolphin Aquatics Dba Nashville Dolphins$55,00065%
Interfaith Dental Clinic of Nashville$45,00070%
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All grantees of Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Andrew's-Sewanee School$232,50080%
Cumberland Heights Foundation Inc$155,00080%
Eckerd College$104,50070%
East Hickman Volunteer Fire Department$95,0006n/a
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art$94,00070%
Men of Valor$87,50081%
Waldens Puddle Wildlife Rehabilitation & Educatio$81,00073%
Dawson Memorial Baptist Church$55,0006n/a
Dolphin Aquatics Dba Nashville Dolphins$55,00065%
Interfaith Dental Clinic of Nashville$45,00070%
Beersheba Springs Medical Clinic$43,50083%
Alive Hospice Inc$41,00050%
Senior Citizens Inc$37,50070%
Hope Clinic for Women$36,00071%
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$35,00020%
The Next Door Inc$35,00070%
Our Kids Inc$35,00070%
Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc$32,50081%
Sexual Assault Center$31,00080%
Pastoral Counseling Centers of Tenn$27,50071%
Center for Nonprofit Management Inc$25,35050%
Nurture the Next Fka Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee$25,00060%
Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee Inc$25,00060%
Oasis Center Inc$22,50050%
Martha O'Bryan Center Inc$21,00060%
The Crossroads Campus$20,00050%
The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Shelter Friends of Hickman County$20,00029%
Auburn University Foundation$20,00020%
Family & Children's Service$19,50070%
Hospital Hospitality House Corporation$17,50040%
Ancoratn Fka End Slavery Tennessee Inc$17,50040%
The Victor S Johnson III Nashville Children's Alliance Inc$16,00060%
Andrew Jackson Foundation Fka Ladies' Hermitage Association$15,50020%
Mending Hearts Inc$15,30050%
Belmont University$15,00010%
Rocketown of Middle Tennessee$15,00040%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$13,00040%
Tenngreen Land Conservancy$12,50030%
High Hopes Inc$12,50030%
Church of the Highlands Inc$12,0003n/a
Currey Ingram Academy$11,00030%
Park Center Inc$10,00030%
Community Life Church Inc$10,0001n/a
The Harpeth Hall School$10,00010%
Daybreak Arts$10,00051%
Samford University$10,00020%
McNeilly Center for Children Inc$10,00020%
The Junior League of Nashville Inc$8,50060%
Youth Encouragement Services Inc$8,50041%
Begin Anew$8,50040%
Small World Yoga Inc$7,50031%
Tennessee Innocence Project$7,50030%
The Heimerdinger Foundation Inc$7,50030%
Siloam Health$7,50020%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc$7,50020%
My Bag My Story$7,50032%
Ministry Leadership Center Fka Center for Youth Ministry Training$7,50030%
Samford University Foundation$7,0002n/a
Nashville Coaching Coalition$6,50051%
Miss Sims Garden Foundation$6,00025%
Charis Ministries Inc$6,00033%
Time to Rise Inc$6,00060%
Progress Inc$6,00030%
Urban Green Lab$5,50031%
United Special Sportsman Alliance I$5,00011%
Nashville Zoo Inc$5,00020%
Pet Community Center Inc$5,00020%
Eve of Janus Benefit Inc$5,000216%
Rebuilding Together Nashville Inc$5,00020%
Boones Creek Christian Church$5,0001n/a
Senior Ride Nashville Inc$5,00021%
Salama Urban Ministries Inc$5,00021%
Goodwill Industries of Middle TN Inc$5,00020%
Freedom Reigns Ranch$5,00020%
Kari's Heart Foundation Inc$5,00012%
Travellers Rest Historic House Museum Inc$5,00021%
The Mayfly Project$4,75040%
Nashville Humane Association Aka Nashville Humane Society$4,50030%
First Steps Inc$3,50020%
Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary$3,50020%
Musicians on Call Inc$3,50020%
Early Literacy Ambassadors$3,00034%
Project Redesign Inc$2,50011%
Episcopal School of Nashville$2,50010%
Renewal House Inc$2,50010%
Nashville Diaper Connection$2,5001n/a
The Elizabeth River Project$2,50010%
Bridges for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing$2,50010%
Benton Hall Corporation$2,50010%
Friends Life Community$2,5001n/a
Centennial Park Conservancy$2,00020%
Move Music City$2,0002n/a
Corner To Corner$2,00010%
Birmingham-Southern College$2,00020%
Williamson County Casa Inc$2,00020%
Path United Inc$2,00020%
TenThirtyFive Inc$1,00010%
Junior Achievement of Middle Tn$1,00010%
Barefoot Republic Inc$1,00010%
Nurses for Newborns$1,00010%
Tennessee Voices for Children$1,00010%
Mother to Mother Inc$1,00010%
Habitat for Humanity Williamson -Maury$1,00010%
Casa Inc$1,00010%
Woodmont Christian Church$1,0001n/a
Tennessee Higher Education Initiative Inc$1,00010%
Nashville Academy Theatre and Nashville Children's Theatre Assoc$1,00010%
Communities in Schools of Tennessee$1,00010%
Nashville General Hospital Foundation$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($632k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Andrew's-Sewanee School: $232,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCumberland Heights Foundation Inc: $155,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEckerd College: $104,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art: $94,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMen of Valor: $87,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetWaldens Puddle Wildlife Rehabilitation & Educatio: $81,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetDolphin Aquatics Dba Nashville Dolphins: $55,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetInterfaith Dental Clinic of Nashville: $45,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBeersheba Springs Medical Clinic: $43,500 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetAlive Hospice Inc: $41,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSenior Citizens Inc: $37,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHope Clinic for Women: $36,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Next Door Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOur Kids Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc: $32,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSexual Assault Center: $31,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPastoral Counseling Centers of Tenn: $27,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCenter for Nonprofit Management Inc: $25,350 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNurture the Next Fka Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Middle Tennessee Inc: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOasis Center Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMartha O'Bryan Center Inc: $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Crossroads Campus: $20,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe University of Tennessee Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShelter Friends of Hickman County: $20,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetAuburn University Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily & Children's Service: $19,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHospital Hospitality House Corporation: $17,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAncoratn Fka End Slavery Tennessee Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Victor S Johnson III Nashville Children's Alliance Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAndrew Jackson Foundation Fka Ladies' Hermitage Association: $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMending Hearts Inc: $15,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBelmont University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocketown of Middle Tennessee: $15,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTenngreen Land Conservancy: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHigh Hopes Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCurrey Ingram Academy: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPark Center Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Harpeth Hall School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDaybreak Arts: $10,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSamford University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMcNeilly Center for Children Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Junior League of Nashville Inc: $8,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Encouragement Services Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBegin Anew: $8,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSmall World Yoga Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 100.

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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.

Hca Healthcare FoundationTN109.4× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Nashville Predators Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Ebs Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn

How much does Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn give?
Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn reported 87 grants totaling $405,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 68 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (19%), Health (19%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Andrew's-Sewanee School ($233k), Cumberland Heights Foundation Inc ($155k), Eckerd College ($105k).
Does Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc, The Frist Foundation.
Where is Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn based?
Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn is based in TN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 154 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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