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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.

$91k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 30
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2025still arriving12$91k0%
FY202415$104k0%
FY202315$388k0%
FY202223$254k0%
FY202122$173k9%
FY202029$140k17%
FY201930$124k17%
FY201829$112k7%
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What it funded, over time

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

Health$937kReligion$270kEducation$91kFood & Nutrition$54kAnimals$45kEnvironment$40kHuman Services$21kArts & Culture$17kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ndh Foundation$741,50097%
Columbia Memorial Health Foundation$181,50072%
Reformed Church of Germantown$163,8509n/a
Reformed Church in America$72,2507n/a
Columbia Greene Community Foundation$56,00092%
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern Ny$27,25070%
Columbia Greene Humane Society$27,00090%
Nantucket Conservation Foundation$24,55090%
Germantown Student Education Foundation$21,350753%
Harry Chapin Food Bank$17,35090%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ndh Foundation$741,50097%
Columbia Memorial Health Foundation$181,50072%
Reformed Church of Germantown$163,8509n/a
Reformed Church in America$72,2507n/a
Columbia Greene Community Foundation$56,00092%
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern Ny$27,25070%
Columbia Greene Humane Society$27,00090%
Nantucket Conservation Foundation$24,55090%
Germantown Student Education Foundation$21,350753%
Harry Chapin Food Bank$17,35090%
Gulf Coast Humane Society$16,25090%
Salvation Army$15,5005n/a
Nantucket Historical Association$10,75090%
Columbia Greene Community College Association Inc$10,00012%
Riverkeeper Inc$6,05090%
Habitat for Humanity of Columbia County$4,00040%
Kimball Union Academy$3,40060%
New Life Assembly of God$3,0002n/a
Columbia County Historical Society$2,80060%
Columbia Land Conservancy$2,7503n/a
Adirondack Mountain Club$2,00040%
Community Hospice$1,50030%
Word of Hope$1,3506n/a
Ding Darling Wildlife Society$1,15070%
Catskill Mountainkeeper$1,00020%
Animalkind Inc$1,00020%
Wmht Educational Telecommunications$60060%
Prospect Hill Cemetery Association$55020%
The Community Hospice Foundation$50010%
University at Buffalo Foundation Inc$50030%
Nantucket Center for Elder Affairs Inc$30010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNdh Foundation: $741,500 over 9y, 7.2% of budgetColumbia Memorial Health Foundation: $181,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetColumbia Greene Community Foundation: $56,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetRegional Food Bank of Northeastern Ny: $27,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia Greene Humane Society: $27,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNantucket Conservation Foundation: $24,550 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGermantown Student Education Foundation: $21,350 over 7y, 53% of budgetHarry Chapin Food Bank: $17,350 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGulf Coast Humane Society: $16,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNantucket Historical Association: $10,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia Greene Community College Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRiverkeeper Inc: $6,050 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Columbia County: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKimball Union Academy: $3,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia County Historical Society: $2,800 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAdirondack Mountain Club: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Hospice: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDing Darling Wildlife Society: $1,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCatskill Mountainkeeper: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnimalkind Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWmht Educational Telecommunications: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetProspect Hill Cemetery Association: $550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Community Hospice Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNantucket Center for Elder Affairs Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.5% 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 25.

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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.

T Backer Fund IncMA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc

How much does Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc give?
Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $90,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (63%), Religion (18%), Education (6%).
Who are Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ndh Foundation ($742k), Columbia Memorial Health Foundation ($182k), Reformed Church of Germantown ($164k).
Does Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include T Backer Fund Inc, Hrbt Foundation, Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation.
Where is Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc based?
Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 44 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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