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Monica D Phillips Foundation Inc at a glance

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Monica D Phillips Foundation Inc

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.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$54kHealth$42kEducation$33kReligion$31kArts & Culture$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kEnvironment$8kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$259k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$2,500
LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%REACHING AVERY MINISTRY: $1k → 15%REACHING AVERY MINISTRY: $1k → 15%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $200 → 13%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $200 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$115k · 7 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$115k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+219%

Still filing today

100%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OR
    OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $31k · revenue ×91
  • BH
    Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +149%
  • THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $8k · revenue +226%

Funded once

  • GS
    GETRUDE SALZER GORDON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • AS
    ALL SAINTS MISSION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • US
    UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +219%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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2
Reef Renewal Usa Inc

Reef renewal usa is renewing coral reefs for future generations in a rapidly changing world by producing and outplanting resilient corals of the future at an unprecedented scale.

Environment
3
Clean Reefs
Environment
4
Ocean Reef Conservation Association Inc

To protect and preserve the environment, fish, wildlife and marine related areas including water quality and habitat. to protect nearby and offshore coral reefs and fishery habitats by repairing, re-growth and regernation, in order to have…

Environment
5
Reef Environmental Education Foundation

Reef environmental education foundation (reef) was established as a nonprofit organization in 1990. reef conserves marine environments worldwide. our mission is to protect biodiversity and ocean life by actively engaging and inspiring the…

Recreation & Sports
6
Reef Fish Conservation and Education Foundation Inc

To preserve and protect reef fish in the Gulf of Mexico through science and education.

Animals
7
Oceanit Research Foundation
Science & Tech
8
Reef Check Foundation

Leading Citizen scientists to promote stewardship of sustainable reef communities worldwide.

Environment
9
Old Island Restoration Foundation

Operation & maintenance of The Oldest House Museum located on Duval Street, Key West, Florida.

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10
Reef Renewal Foundation International

Our mission at reef renewal foundation international is to increase coral coverage and biodiversity worldwide by supporting our global network of reef restoration programs. reef renewal's network members are programs that are locally led…

Environment
11
Global Foundation for Oceanographic & Atmospheric Research Inc
Philanthropy
12
Offield Ocean Fund
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Everglades Foundation Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC: $30,500 · OtherOCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INCOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · OtherOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION IN…GETRUDE SALZER GORDON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE: $10,000 · OtherGETRUDE SALZER GORDON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM…ALL SAINTS MISSION: $10,000 · OtherALL SAINTS MISSIONIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · Other+3 more: $2,400 · OtherOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $54,290 · PhilanthropyOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION…LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 · EducationLINVILLE FOUNDATIO…Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc: $30,477 · HealthBaptist Health Sou…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · EnvironmentREACHING AVERY MINISTRY: $2,000 · Human ServicesKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $400 · Human Services
Other$67,400Philanthropy$54,290Education$32,500Health$31,477Environment$7,500Human Services$2,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $54,290 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLINVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetOCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC: $30,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc: $30,477 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREACHING AVERY MINISTRY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The James J and Joan …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
The James J and Joan a Gardner Family FoundationOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Monica D Phillips Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Monica D Phillips Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Star of the Sea Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Monica D Phillips Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Monica D Phillips Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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