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Philene Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$143k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$360kArts & Culture$175kHealth$107kEnvironment$91kPhilanthropy$80kReligion$40kCivil Rights$30kFood & Nutrition$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NYU Institute of Fine Arts$20,000
AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND$15,000
ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA$15,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$15,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NY$15,000
CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL$10,000
LAKES ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION$10,000
Alport Syndrome Foundation$7,500
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$7,500
Norton Museum of Art$5,000
The Community Chest of Port Washing$5,000
GREEN VALE SCHOOL$5,000
Area Stage$3,000
Brooklyn Academy of Music$2,500
The Flagler Museum$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $1k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
AZ
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$896k · 54 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
26

Total granted

$896k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+7%

Still filing today

61%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    8× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +94%
  • LE
    LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +47%
  • CR
    CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • HI
    HIAS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -28%
  • DS
    Dreyfoos School of the Arts Foundat
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
5
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
8
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
11
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
12
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Carnegie Hill Neighbors Inc. 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

44 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. 44 of the 84 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
34/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND: $60,000 · OtherAMERICAN KIDNEY FUNDUNITED JEWISH APPEAL: $30,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEALPlanned Parenthood: $26,600 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $26,100 · OtherARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTEARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $25,000 · OtherARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICAUJA: $20,000 · OtherUJANYU Institute of Fine Arts: $20,000 · OtherNYU Institute of Fine ArtsDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $16,000 · OtherALPORT SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Other+44 more: $138,510 · Other+44 moreBowdoin College: $93,597 · EducationBowdoin CollegeCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $80,000 · EducationCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION…THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $39,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE C…GREEN VALE SCHOOL: $32,000 · EducationGREEN VALE SCHOOLNew York University: $30,000 · EducationNew York University+4 more: $2,750 · EducationThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $48,750 · Arts & CultureThe Preserva…Portland Museum of Art: $18,500 · Arts & CulturePortland Mus…NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $14,750 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEU…AREA STAGE INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureAREA STAGE I…WNET: $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $11,570 · Arts & Culture+5 moreLAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION: $88,750 · EnvironmentLAKES ENVI…+2 more: $4,500 · EnvironmentTHE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC: $37,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMU…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $29,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JE…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FE…Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $3,500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $26,750 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,000 · Civil RightsGood Shepherd Food Bank: $15,000 · Food & NutritionHARRISON FOOD BANK: $6,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$374,710Education$277,847Arts & Culture$111,570Environment$93,250Philanthropy$79,500Civil Rights$29,750Food & Nutrition$21,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBowdoin College: $93,597 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION: $88,750 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $80,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $48,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $39,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC: $37,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetGREEN VALE SCHOOL: $32,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $26,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $18,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $15,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $14,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALPORT SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Voices: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAREA STAGE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHARRISON FOOD BANK: $6,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHIAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENETIC DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $2,820 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOTOS FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGTON HOSPITAL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMER CAMP INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANA HALL SCHOOL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC: $250 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.

  • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREEN VALE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds ALPORT SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Safe Voices ↗
  • Who funds AREA STAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds HARRISON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…The Bessemer Giving F…Schiavi Family Founda…Agnes M Lindsay TrustThe New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…
Maine Community Foundation IncME14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Area Stage Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 84 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home