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Margaret Mosher 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.

$48k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$205kEducation$46kInternational$22kYouth Development$16kHuman Services$16kFood & Nutrition$6kCivil Rights$1kEmployment$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$953k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$6,300
AVANT MINISTRIES$6,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$4,000
GRAD RESOURCES$4,000
SIDE BY SIDE KIDS$4,000
DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$4,000
BIBLICAL COMMUNICATION INTL$3,300
CRU$2,400
WARREN CULWELL MINISTRY$2,000
JUST SAY YES$2,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$2,000
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL$1,300
GEM$1,200
SIM USA$1,200
SUDAN INTERIOR MISSION USA$1,200
02The need
03

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 (FY18–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Grace Lake Ministries: $250 → 5%SIDE BY SIDE KIDS: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

NY
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CA
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GA
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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.

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.
$305k · 23 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
7

Total granted

$305k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+40%

Still filing today

30%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsInternationalOther

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

  • DT
    Dallas Theological Seminary
    8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +81%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +40%
  • YE
    YOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED
    7× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +204%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • RR
    Red Rocks Church Austin
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • MP
    MY POSSIBILITIES
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue -18%

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.

1
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Grateful Shepherd Ministries

Training pastors and leaders in christian faith

Religion
3
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
4
Grace Global Ministries Inc

Grace Global Ministries exists to assist local churches in sending global workers to fulfill the Great Commission.

International
5
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
6
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
7
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
8
Churches in Missions Inc

Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...

Human Services
9
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
10
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
11
Grace in Action

To support Chrisian ministry and to bring the Gospel message of Jesus Christ to people around the globe through ministerial leadership training, innovative ministries and ministry tools and products in support of reaching and teaching the…

Education
12
Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is In Touch Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grad Resources. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $40,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBIBLICAL COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INC — $20,900 · OtherBIBLICAL COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INCSCOFIELD MEMORIAL CHURCH — $18,000 · OtherSCOFIELD MEMORIAL CHURCHAVANT MINISTRIES — $15,600 · OtherAVANT MINISTRIESCampus Crusade for Christ — $14,400 · OtherCampus Crusade for ChristHOPE CENTER INC — $11,000 · OtherHOPE CENTER INCNational Christian Foundation — $10,000 · OtherNational Christian FoundationCROSSWORLD — $9,600 · OtherSudan Interior Mission USA — $9,000 · OtherUnion Gospel Mission — $6,700 · Other+11 more — $29,800 · Other+11 moreGRAD RESOURCES — $46,000 · ReligionGRAD RESOURCESSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $15,600 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEWARREN CULWELL MINISTRY INC — $13,000 · ReligionWARREN CULWELL MINISTRY INCGREATER EUROPE MISSION — $7,700 · ReligionGREATER EUROPE MISSION+1 more — $500 · ReligionDallas Theological Seminary — $32,000 · EducationDallas Theo…YOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED — $12,500 · Human ServicesSIDE BY SIDE KIDS INC — $4,000 · Human Services+1 more — $250 · Human ServicesCompassion International Incorporated — $5,300 · InternationalALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $1,260 · Civil Rights
Other$185,100Religion$82,800Education$32,000Human Services$16,750International$5,300Civil Rights$1,260

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGRAD RESOURCES — $46,000 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary — $32,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $15,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWARREN CULWELL MINISTRY INC — $13,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED — $12,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER EUROPE MISSION — $7,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSIDE BY SIDE KIDS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $1,260 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrace Lake Ministries — $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 GRAD RESOURCES
  • Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds WARREN CULWELL MINISTRY INC
  • Who funds YOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED
  • Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated
  • Who funds SIDE BY SIDE KIDS INC
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
  • Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES
  • Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds Grace Lake Ministries

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization Margaret Mosher 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Margaret Mosher Phillips Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Margaret Mosher Phillips Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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