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Phi Community Foundation

The purpose of the corporation is to promote charitable activities that address community issues of health, youth development, educational support, and low income advocacy within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the irc, as amended, including more specifically but not by way of limitations: (a) to promote healthy lifestyles and…

$454k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$414k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$45,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$80,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$180k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Phi Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
ReligionRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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 arriving8$414k13%
FY20249$404k22%
FY20239$435k11%
FY20229$470k44%
FY20218$533k63%
FY20204$198kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$608kHuman Services$558kEducation$360kYouth Development$335kCivil Rights$295kCommunity Improvement$196kRecreation & Sports$47kFood & Nutrition$40kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Phi Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Washington Urban League Inc: $480,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetInterfaith Works: $452,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $235,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNational Coalition of 100 Black Women Southern Nj Chapter: $196,000 over 4y, 54% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Atlantic City Inc: $189,865 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMission of Love Charities Inc: $155,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetDelaware State University: $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Cumberland & Salem Counties Inc: $145,093 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Eastern Shore National Alumni Association: $125,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetNew Jersey Shares Inc: $93,184 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetDelaware State University Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Atlantic Cape May & Camden Countiesinc: $45,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetExcel Golf Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetVal Skinner Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe First Tee of Greater Washington DC Langston Golf Course: $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 16.

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.

Td Charitable FoundationME14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Td Charitable Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to Phi Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Phi Community 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.

About Phi Community Foundation

How much does Phi Community Foundation give?
Phi Community Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $413,865, out of $453,865 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Phi Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Human Services (23%), Education (15%).
Who are Phi Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Greater Washington Urban League Inc ($480k), Interfaith Works ($453k), Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ($235k).
Does Phi Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Phi Community Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Td Charitable Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is Phi Community Foundation based?
Phi Community Foundation is based in DC.

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 17 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 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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