How much did LOUIE M & BETTY M PHILLIPS FOUNDATN grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of LOUIE M & BETTY M PHILLIPS FOUNDATN’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

parkbaptist

2019

vanderbilt univyouthbaptisthall

2020

park

2021

ministriesurbanhickmannextcheekwood botanicalbotanical gardengarden museum

2022

ball cheekwoodswan ballhickmanharvestnext

2023

swan ballhealthandrew jacksonharvest

2024

cornermotherchildrenconservancyhealthjuniornext

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 86 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k76 grants · $256k
$10k–50k10 grants · $149k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN'S HOSPITA$25,000
SAINT ANDREW'S SEWANEE SCHOOL$25,000
SWAN BALL INITIATIVE$18,500
WALDEN'S PUDDLE$15,000
BELMONT UNIVERSITY$15,000
CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION$10,000
HARPETH HALL SCHOOL$10,000
AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
DINOSAUR RIDGE$10,000
CROSSROADS CAMPUS$10,000
YWCA OF MIDDLE TN$8,000
GILDA'S CLUB NASHVILLE$7,500
BEERSHEBA SPRINGS MEDICAL CLINIC$7,500
HARVEST HANDS COMMUNITY DEV$5,000
ST THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.5M · 110 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

110 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

110

Total granted

$2.5M

$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%

+140%

Still filing today

55%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalReligionCommunity ImprovementOther

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

CH
CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +60%
EC
ECKERD COLLEGE
7× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +18%
MO
MEN OF VALOR
8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +283%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $20k
CL
COMMUNITY LIFE CHURCH
one grant, 2023 · $10k
VI
VANDERBILT INGRAM GREATEST NEEDS
one grant, 2023 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Nashville Cares

Nashville cares mission is to end the hiv/aids epidemic in middle tennessee.

Health

Stars Nashville

Supports young people through the social and emotional barriers they face. our five evidence-based school and community programs address issues like bullying prevention, substance misuse, violence and other mental health issues. in…

Health

Tennessee Justice Center Inc

Tjc uses the law and advocacy to ensure that tennesseans can meet their most basic needs.

Crime & Legal

Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc

Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter

Nashville Technology Council

Leading voice & advocate for middle tn's information technology ecosystem & tech professionals.

Community Improvement

Nashville Inner City Ministry Inc

Nashville inner city ministry is a christ-centered community organization dedicated to empowering the spiritual, educational and vocational development of at-risk youth and their families.

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Nashville Public Television Inc

Arts & Culture

Cumberland Heights Professional

To transform lives, giving hope and healing to those affected by alcohol or drug addiction.

Unclassified

United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc

Uwgn unites the community and mobilizes resources so that every child, individual & family thrives

Philanthropy

Pregnancy Centers of Middle Tennessee Inc

Our mission is to affirm the value of life by providing a network of care. We strive to empower mothers and fathers experiencing planned and unplanned pregnancies with healthy options through medical services, education, mentoring and…

Health

Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio is a non-profit, non-commercial public media service. nashville public radio's mission is to create and deliver content essential to understanding your world.

Arts & Culture

Hope House of Tennessee Inc

By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rebuilding Together Nashville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eckerd College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/85

the rest of the field

12%

1,058/8,764

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

77 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

77/77

Grantees still filing

68/77

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,770,000Health$350,300Education$203,500Crime & Legal$136,000Human Services$121,500Community Improvement$56,350Religion$52,000

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.

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.

Memorial Foundation IncTN96× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Healing Trust · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind · Ebs Foundation · Carolyn Smith 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 organisation LOUIE M & BETTY M PHILLIPS FOUNDATN 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: EVE OF JANUS BENEFIT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237215849 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on EVE OF JANUS BENEFIT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn?

Find your warmest path to Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LOUIE M & BETTY M PHILLIPS FOUNDATN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

77 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn?

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LOUIE M & BETTY M PHILLIPS FOUNDATN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

77 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn?

More from the funding graph