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Phillips Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$880k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$1.0MHuman Services$963kHousing & Shelter$839kEducation$736kReligion$543kEmployment$437kArts & Culture$385kRecreation & Sports$256kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $598k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH$30,000
AMERICAN VETERANS CENTER$30,000
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK$26,000
HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC$25,000
THE CHILDREN'S HOME$25,000
HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC$25,000
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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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%OFF THE FLOOR PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%GIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $25k → 13%HOPE TO HOME FURNITURE RESOURCE: $10k → 12%4 GOOD COMMUNITY: $10k → 10%COMFORT CASES: $40k → 8%DON'T STOP DREAMIN': $5k → 9%HOUR CHILDREN: $20k → 13%HOPE TO HOME FURNITURE RESOURCE: $10k → 12%HERO DOGS INC: $14k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 11%ISLAND HARVEST: $5k → 6%SNACK & FRIENDS INC: $30k → 17%HERO DOGS INC: $14k → 8%IONIC LODGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $3k → 6%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $5k → 17%HERO DOGS INC: $9k → 8%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC: $25k → 19%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $5k → 11%THE READING TEAM: $30k → 17%HERO DOGS INC: $5k → 8%THE ARC BALTIMORE: $10k → 19%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $33k → 11%THE READING TEAM: $20k → 17%BELLO MACHRE INC: $117k → 6%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND: $9k → 8%VEHICLES FOR CHANGE: $25k → 11%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $20k → 11%LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $10k → 12%BELLO MACHRE INC: $45k → 6%LONG ISLAND CARES INC - THE HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK: $5k → 7%BELLO MACHRE INC: $35k → 6%PAL-O-MINE EQUESTRIAN: $22k → 7%BELLO MACHRE INC: $25k → 6%EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH: $30k → 11%HOPE FOR ALL INC: $10k → 6%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $10k → 17%HOPE FOR ALL INC: $10k → 6%THE WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 11%LANGTON GREEN INC: $28k → 6%PENNSYLVANIA WOMEN WORK: $20k → 11%WALK THE WALK FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%WALK THE WALK FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%WALK THE WALK FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%WALK THE WALK FOUNDATION: $4k → 6%WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $26k → 11%CENTER OF HELP: $20k → 6%ARUNDEL HOUSE OF HOPE INCORPORATED: $4k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
VA
MD
SC
DC
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Phillips Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Phillips Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 34 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
88

Total granted

$3.1M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+22%

Still filing today

74%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
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

  • TL
    THE LIGHT HOUSE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $235k · revenue +13%
  • BM
    BELLO MACHRE INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $222k · revenue +176%
  • LO
    LIFE'SWORK OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
    3× · 2019–2023 · $174k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SO
    SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH
    one grant, 2021 · $301k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -61%
  • TI
    THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF HOPEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $116k · revenue +233%
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
Marrakech Inc

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…

Employment
2
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
3
The Way Back Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Job Options Inc

To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.

Employment
5
Abilitypath

Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.

Employment
6
Residential Opportunities Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Via Rehabilitation Services Inc

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.

Health
8
Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc

Goodwill industries of the chesapeake, inc. prepares people to secure and retain employment and build successful, independent lives.

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9
Abilitypath Housing

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…

Human Services
10
Caroline Center Inc

None

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11
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
12
Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & Northern New Jersey Inc

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.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Child's Haven Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

103 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. 103 of the 140 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/103
Grantees still filing
70/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH: $300,953 · OtherSISTERS OF ST JOSEPHUPMC: $282,861 · OtherUPMCCHESAPEAKE REGION ACCESSIBLE BOATING (CRAB): $198,200 · OtherCHESAPEAKE REGION ACCESSIBLE BOATING (CRAB)LIFE'SWORK OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $174,000 · OtherLIFE'SWORK OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIAXAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $115,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE INC: $150,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $105,000 · Other+66 more: $1,728,218 · Other+66 moreBELLO MACHRE INC: $221,500 · Human ServicesBELLO MACHRE INCTHE WATSON INSTITUTE: $53,000 · Human ServicesTHE WATSON INSTIT…READING TEAM INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesREADING TEAM INCHero Dogs Inc: $40,500 · Human ServicesCOMFORT CASES INC: $39,660 · Human ServicesSNACK & FRIENDS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesWOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesEMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC: $30,000 · Human Services+27 more: $401,200 · Human Services+27 moreFAMILY HOUSE INC: $500,000 · HealthFAMILY HOUSE IN…THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF HOPE: $116,297 · HealthTHE INTERNATION…BELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthBELIEVE IN TOMO…CHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $28,420 · Health+6 more: $100,250 · Health+6 moreTexas A&M Foundation: $50,000 · EducationANNAPOLIS AREA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationIONA UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 · EducationFordham University: $25,000 · EducationLANDON SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationNAVAL ACADEMY PRIMARY SCHOOL: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationTHE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $235,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterVETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $206,200 · Arts & CultureTHE LITTLE ORCHESTRA SOCIETYORPHEON INC: $22,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S THEATRE OF ANNAPOLIS INC: $20,952 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $7,500 · Arts & CultureNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN: $85,000 · EmploymentOPPORTUNITY BUILDERS INC: $48,000 · EmploymentTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $35,000 · EmploymentBYTE BACK: $30,000 · Employment
Other$3,054,232Human Services$895,860Health$804,967Education$300,000Housing & Shelter$295,000Arts & Culture$257,152Employment$198,000

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 budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC: $500,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTHE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $235,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetBELLO MACHRE INC: $221,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $206,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIFE'SWORK OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $174,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetXAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $115,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS CROSSED ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $85,200 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetAMERICAN STUDIES CENTER: $85,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN: $85,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN: $65,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE WATSON INSTITUTE: $53,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTABBYS PLACE A CAT SANCTUARY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNAPOLIS AREA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADING TEAM INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetVariety the Childrens Charity: $49,200 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY BUILDERS INC: $48,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHEALING FARM MINISTRIES: $46,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY MARYLAND INC: $41,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHero Dogs Inc: $40,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMFORT CASES INC: $39,660 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSNACK & FRIENDS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBYTE BACK: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $28,420 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLANGTON GREEN INC: $28,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $28,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVEHICLES FOR CHANGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLANDON SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMEGOINC: $23,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE ORCHESTRA SOCIETYORPHEON INC: $22,500 over 3y, 1.2% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Arundel Community Dev…The United Way of Cen…The United Way of Sou…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Harry and Jeanett…Anne Arundel Economic…Give Back FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…Baltimore Community F…Nora Roberts Foundati…
Community Foundation of Anne Arundel CoMD48.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 140 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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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