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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $413,865, the rows itemized in this filing. The $453,865 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $174k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $240k
$45,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$180k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERFAITH WORKS$80,000
GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE$80,000
MISSION OF LOVE$80,000
CASA CAPE ATLANTIC$45,000
NATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY CHAPTER$45,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ATLANTIC CITY$38,865
DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY$30,000
EXCEL GOLF$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $573k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE: $170k → 14%New Jersey SHARES: $53k → 4%GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE: $80k → 14%NEW JERSEY SHARES: $40k → 4%GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE: $80k → 14%GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE: $75k → 14%GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE: $75k → 14%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 35% of Phi Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 20%.

Phi Community Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 12 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$2.3M
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+1%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $480k · revenue ×16
  • IW
    INTERFAITH WORKS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $453k · revenue +47%
  • MC
    Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $235k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • CF
    Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +1%
  • VS
    VAL SKINNER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -27%
  • TF
    THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +10%
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
League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.

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2
Delaware State Golf Association Scholarship Fund
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3
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens

Youth Development
4
League of Women Voters of New Jersey Education Fund

Lwvnj-ef's nonpartisan voter education and voter protection work ensures everyone has the tools, resources, and confidence they need to participate fully at the ballot box and beyond.

Civil Rights
5
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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6
Maryland State Golf Association

To serve, grow and advance the game of golf in maryland and the district of columbia.

Recreation & Sports
7
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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8
Delaware Center for Justice

The delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.

Crime & Legal
9
Boys & Girls Club of Camden County Inc

The boys & girls club of camden county, inc. serves approximately 500 at risk youth in the city of camden.

Youth Development
10
Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

The mission of the independent colleges and universities of new jersey, a new jersey non-profit corporation is to advance the interests of new jersey's independent, non-profit, public mission institutions of higher education by promoting…

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11
Delaware State Education Association Inc

Advocate for the rights and interests of its members and outstanding public education for all students.

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12
Girl Scouts of Central Maryland Inc

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware State University Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Interfaith Works. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERFAITH WORKS: $452,500 · ReligionINTERFAITH WORKSMISSION OF LOVE CHARITIES INC: $155,000 · ReligionMISSION OF LOVE CHARITIES IN…GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC: $480,000 · Human ServicesGREATER WASHINGTON URBAN L…NEW JERSEY SHARES INC: $93,184 · Human ServicesNEW JERSEY SHARES INCMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $235,000 · OtherMary's Center for Maternal a…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CUMBERLAND & SALEM COUNTIES INC: $145,093 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF …UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $125,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTE…COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ATLANTIC CAPE MAY & CAMDEN COUNTIESINC: $45,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVO…Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $40,000 · OtherCommunity Food Bank Of New J…+2 more: $25,000 · OtherDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationDELAWARE S…DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · EducationDELAWARE S…NATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN SOUTHERN NJ CHAPTER: $196,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL …BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATLANTIC CITY INC: $189,865 · Youth DevelopmentEXCEL GOLF INC: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE: $12,000 · Recreation & Sports
Religion$607,500Human Services$573,184Other$615,093Education$225,000Community Improvement$196,000Youth Development$189,865Recreation & Sports$47,000

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

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
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.

Td Charitable Foundat…The Philadelphia Foun…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Delaware State University: 18% of income from government
  • Mission of Love Charities Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Interfaith Works: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 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.

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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