· Private foundation
Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NDH FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| REFORMED CHURCH OF GERMANTOWN | $25,000 |
| COLUMBIA GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| COLUMBIA GREENE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| REFORMED CHURCH CEMETARY | $3,000 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NY | $2,500 |
| GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY | $500 |
| RIVERKEEPER INC | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NFNDH Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $742k · revenue +200%
- CCCOLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +98%
- RFREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC7× · 2019–2025 · $27k · revenue +605%
Funded once
- CCCOLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -9%
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CCCOLUMBIA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCYone grant, 2020 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
To hold and manage open space property for the public's benefit and assist in the preservation and stewardship of the scenic beauty, natural communities and recreational amenities in greene county, ny and surrounding areas.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.
Northern neck land conservancy's mission is to preserve the rural heritage of the northern neck and essex county by conserving their lands, water, economies and culture for future generations. the land conservancy assists landowners who…
The troy community land bank acquires, rehabilitates and resells vacant and abandoned buildings throughout the city of troy, new york
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animalkind Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 44 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NDH Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GERMANTOWN STUDENT EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Columbia County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMALKIND INC ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT HILL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: T Backer Fund Inc · Hrbt Foundation · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Flood-Gamble Foundation Inc · The Sally S and Robert K Phelan Legacy Foundation Inc · Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation · The Dyson Foundation · Charles L & Elizabeth P Gerli Foundation · The Judith B Phelan and Richard S Phelan Family Foundation Inc · Henry L Kimelman Family Foundation · Eugene M Lang 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 Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
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.
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