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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.

$51k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
36%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,600
Largest grant, FY2025
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$431k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Phelan Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalCivil RightsOther
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 arriving14$51k21%
FY202422$50k36%
FY202314$50k14%
FY202215$51k20%
FY202115$55k7%
FY202020$49k50%
FY201917$50k41%
FY201819$95k74%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$109kHuman Services$99kAnimals$93kInternational$33kArts & Culture$30kHealth$28kRecreation & Sports$21kEducation$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

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

Show all 39 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($76k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Phelan Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFreedom Service Dogs Inc: $94,300 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding America: $79,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $49,025 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCarmel-Clay Historical Society Inc: $25,050 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetForgotten Felines Rescue: $22,600 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetMAP International Inc: $14,167 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $14,167 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Foundation: $14,167 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $12,725 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmor Healing Kitchen Inc: $11,350 over 7y, 14% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMagical Meadows Inc: $4,700 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOperation Kindness: $3,941 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetExotic Feline Rescue Center: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRescue Row Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetIndiana University Health Foundation Inc: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $2,016 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLife For The World Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,140 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Elm Area Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDogs of Hilltown: $1,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetCarmel Dads Club Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung African Americans for Social and Political Activism: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoster Success: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHunger Free Colorado: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Wildlife Federation: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Als Association-Texas Chapter: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arms Control Associations: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Delta Delta Foundation: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGiraffe Conservation Foundation USA: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 37.

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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.

Salesforce FoundationCA12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Salesforce Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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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Find your warmest path to Phelan Family 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.

About Phelan Family Foundation Inc

How much does Phelan Family Foundation Inc give?
Phelan Family Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $50,652 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Phelan Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (24%), Human Services (22%), Animals (20%).
Who are Phelan Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Freedom Service Dogs Inc ($94k), Feeding America ($80k), K9s for Warriors Inc ($49k).
Does Phelan Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does 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 Phelan Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Salesforce Foundation, Lilly Endowment Inc, Duke Energy Foundation.
Where is Phelan Family Foundation Inc based?
Phelan Family Foundation Inc is based in TX.

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 59 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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