Florida · Private foundation
Philene Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $143k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Philene Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $143k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $173k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $59k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $138k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $116k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $108k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $67k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $85k | 23% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowdoin College | $93,597 | 8 | 0% |
| Lakes Environmental Association | $88,750 | 9 | 2% |
| Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated | $80,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc | $48,750 | 6 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College | $39,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Community Chest of Port Washington Ny Inc | $37,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Green Vale School | $32,000 | 8 | 0% |
| New York University | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $29,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $26,750 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($297k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Philene Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Schiavi Family Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Philene Foundation
- How much does Philene Foundation give?
- Philene Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $143,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Philene Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (11%).
- Who are Philene Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bowdoin College ($94k), Lakes Environmental Association ($89k), Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated ($80k).
- Does Philene Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Philene Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Philene Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, The Bessemer Giving Fund, Schiavi Family Foundation.
- Where is Philene Foundation based?
- Philene Foundation is based in FL.
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