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Phileo Foundation at a glance

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Phileo Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$61k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Food & Nutrition$88kHealth$83kHuman Services$83kHousing & Shelter$80kYouth Development$69kEducation$33kEmployment$30kReligion$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED GOSPEL MISSION OF SALEM$7,500
EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES$5,000
ST ANTHONY'S DINNING ROOM$5,000
FAMILY HOUSE INC$5,000
SUMMER SEARCH$5,000
CASA DE LAS MADRES$5,000
MONARCH SERVICES$5,000
SF MARIN FOOD BANK$5,000
ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH$4,000
RAPHAEL HOUSE$4,000
LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES$4,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$3,000
SALVATION ARMY$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MONARCH SERVICES: $5k → 13%MONARCH SERVICES: $5k → 13%MONARCH SERVICES: $5k → 13%MONARCH SERVICES: $5k → 13%MONARCH SERVICES: $5k → 13%MONARCH SERVICES: $5k → 13%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $4k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $5k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $5k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $5k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $5k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $5k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $4k → 10%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$484k · 22 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
8

Total granted

$484k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+44%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationEmploymentYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • EC
    EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +15%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +10%
  • MONARCH SERVICES-SERVICIOS MONARCA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • DG
    DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • SC
    Sigma Chi Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +69%
  • TE
    THE EDDIE GUARDADO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -100%
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
San Francisco Family Foundation
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2
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
3
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.

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4
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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5
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
6
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
7
Advance Sf

Advance SF is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco through education, advocacy, and research. The…

Human Services
8
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education
9
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
10
Faces Sf

Our mission is to nurture, teach and empower children and families to transform their lives by providing critical assistance to low-income families with early childhood development, workforce training, school-age enrichment, and family…

Education
11
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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12
Sacramento Children's Home

At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raphael House of San Francisco Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Eddie Guardado Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 30 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED GOSPEL MISSION OF SALEM: $50,500 · OtherUNITED GOSPEL MISSION OF SALEMLa Casa de las Madres: $30,000 · OtherLa Casa de las MadresSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $30,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKST ANTHONY'S DINNING ROOM: $30,000 · OtherST ANTHONY'S DINNING ROOMSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $28,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKTHE SALVATION ARMY: $23,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMURS CALIFORNIA PROVIN: $16,000 · OtherSISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMURS CALIFORNIA PROVINUCI ANTREPRENEUR CENTER: $14,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SF: $11,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY FUND FOR DR NOLAN WILLIAMS: $10,000 · Other+8 more: $31,000 · Other+8 moreMONARCH SERVICES-SERVICIOS MONARCA: $30,000 · Human ServicesMONARCH SERVICES-SE…RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $29,000 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SA…Larkin Street Youth Services: $29,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth…EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $30,000 · HealthEDGEWOOD CENTER …FAMILY HOUSE INC: $23,000 · HealthFAMILY HOUSE INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $15,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…THE EDDIE GUARDADO FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthTHE EDDIE GUARDA…SUMMER SEARCH: $30,000 · EmploymentENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH: $28,500 · Youth DevelopmentSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE: $11,000 · PhilanthropySigma Chi Foundation: $5,000 · EducationProject Scientist Inc: $2,500 · Education
Other$273,500Human Services$88,000Health$73,000Employment$30,000Youth Development$28,500Philanthropy$11,000Education$7,500

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 budgetLa Casa de las Madres: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMONARCH SERVICES-SERVICIOS MONARCA: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $29,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $29,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH: $28,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSigma Chi Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EDDIE GUARDADO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetThe ACC Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKQED INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS SAILING FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetProject Scientist Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 La Casa de las Madres ↗
  • Who funds EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MONARCH SERVICES-SERVICIOS MONARCA ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
  • Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
  • Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
  • Who funds ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE ↗
  • Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE EDDIE GUARDADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The ACC Foundation ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Project Scientist Inc ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA15.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Phileo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Phileo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 30 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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