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Philbin Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Philbin Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$36k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$50kHousing & Shelter$25kInternational$20kHealth$13kEducation$11kFood & Nutrition$2kYouth Development$1kPublic Benefit$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$316k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$20,000
LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER$10,000
HEAL FOUNDATION$5,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%PATRIOT POINT: $200 → 14%V FOUNDATION: $100 → 8%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20k → 21%HEAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH: $30k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BALTIMORE: $1k → 19%TUNNEL FOR TOWERS: $500 → 11%LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH: $20k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION: $4k → 19%LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER: $10k → 6%THE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $5k → 6%LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER: $5k → 6%LIGHTHOUSE: $5k → 6%SAMARITAN HOUSE: $1k → 6%ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER: $1k → 6%ACAN (FOOD CHARITY DRIVE): $2k → 6%HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE: $5k → 6%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$85k · 4 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$85k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+44%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
HealthEducationReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • LC
    LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k
  • LS
    LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER
    2× · 2022–2024 · $15k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • HO
    HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • A(
    ACAN (FOOD CHARITY DRIVE)
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BALTIMORE
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
2
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
3
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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4
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
5
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…

Health
6
Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses & Missionaries

Sibley memorial hospital in washington, d.c., a member of johns hopkins medicine, has a distinguished history of serving the community since its founding in 1890. as a not-for-profit, full-service community hospital, sibley offers…

Health
7
Temple University Hospital Inc

See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…

Health
8
Holy Redeemer Health System

As a catholic health system, rooted in the tradition of the sisters of the holy redeemer, we care, comfort and heal, following the example of jesus, proclaiming the hope god offers in the midst of human struggle.

Health
9
John Muir Health

The mission of john muir is to improve the health of the communities we serve with quality and compassion.

Health
10
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
11
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
12
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH INC: $50,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE CHURCH INCLIGHTHOUSE SHELTER: $15,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE SHELTERHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $5,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INCHEAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherHEAL FOUNDATION+5 more: $4,700 · Other+5 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SI…THE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE LIGHT…LUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,000 · HealthSAMARITAN HOUSES INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION: $100 · Health
Other$79,700Religion$20,000Education$11,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Health$2,100

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Philbin Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philbin Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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