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Phillips Charitable Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $598k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHESAPEAKE REGION ACCESSIBLE BOATING (CRAB) | $100,000 |
| NONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN | $85,000 |
| THE LIGHT HOUSE INC | $75,000 |
| HEALING FARMS | $46,500 |
| BENEDICTINE SCHOOL | $37,300 |
| BELLO MACHRE INC | $35,000 |
| XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND | $35,000 |
| THE READING TEAM | $30,000 |
| SNACK & FRIENDS INC | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN VETERANS CENTER | $30,000 |
| EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH | $30,000 |
| WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK | $26,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOME | $25,000 |
| START THE ADVENTURE IN READING (STAIR) | $25,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $896k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Phillips Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
34 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TLTHE LIGHT HOUSE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $235k · revenue +13%
- BMBELLO MACHRE INC4× · 2018–2024 · $222k · revenue +176%
- LOLIFE'SWORK OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA3× · 2019–2023 · $174k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- SOSISTERS OF ST JOSEPHone grant, 2021 · $301k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -61%
- TITHE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF HOPEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $116k · revenue +233%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…
To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
Our mission is to empower people with disabilities and their families to grow, develop, and thrive by providing essential skill-building, therapeutic, and recreational programs.
Goodwill industries of the chesapeake, inc. prepares people to secure and retain employment and build successful, independent lives.
Abilitypath housing advances affordable, accessible housing projects that promote independence and inclusive communities for adults with developmental disabilities. through partnerships and innovative program designs, abilitypath housing…
None
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Goodwill nynj empowers people with disabilities and other barriers to employment to gain independence through the power of work. goodwill nynj provided services to more than 11,087 adults in fiscal year 2025 through all programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Child's Haven Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nontraditional Employment for Women. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 140 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BELLO MACHRE INC ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIFE'SWORK OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CROSSED ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER ↗
- Who funds NONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WATSON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds IONA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TABBYS PLACE A CAT SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds READING TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS AREA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Variety the Childrens Charity ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING FARM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Hero Dogs Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · Arundel Community Development Services Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation · Give Back Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Phillips Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Farming 4 Hunger Inc — 100% of income from government
- Amegoinc — 76% of income from government
- Seeds 4 Success Inc — 48% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- Vehicles for Change Inc — 16% of income from government
- End Hunger in Calvert County Inc — 11% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Arc Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Comfort Cases Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.