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Phillips Family Foundation at a glance

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Phillips Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$150k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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 2024.

Health$257kEducation$35kYouth Development$11kHuman Services$5kArts & Culture$1k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RENOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF TULSA$35,000
NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION$30,000
PIERCE PHILLIPS CHARITY$5,000
MY HOMETOWN HEROES INC$5,000
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MY HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $5k → 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 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
University of Nevada Reno Foundation

Facilitate gifts & grants for the benefit of the University of Nevada, Reno to enhance the quality of education through charitable giving.

Education
2
Renown Health

Renown Health makes a genuine difference in the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.

Health
3
University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that raises and manages private funds for the benefit of UNLV. Our mission is to increase philanthropic support for the university, grow its endowment for…

Education
4
Nebraska Medicine

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and committees through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
5
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
6
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
7
Nevada Cancer Research Foundation Inc

Cancer research.

Health
8
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
9
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
10
University of Nevada School of Medicine Multispecialty Group Practice South Inc

Medical education, scientific research, and patient care.

Health
11
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
12
Unlv Research Foundation

The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Nevada Children's Cancer Foundation; the most unlike its peers is My Hometown Heroes. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Renown Health Foundation: $75,000 · OtherRenown Health FoundationUCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals: $56,000 · OtherUCSF Benioff Children's HospitalsNorthern Nevada Children's Cancer F: $33,000 · OtherNorthern Nevada Children's Cancer FNorthern Nevada Children's Cancer: $25,000 · OtherNorthern Nevada Children's Cancer+4 more: $12,600 · Other+4 moreThe University of Tulsa: $35,000 · EducationThe University of TulsaUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $28,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNI…NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN N…MY HOMETOWN HEROES: $5,000 · Human ServicesPIERCE PHILLIPS CHARITY: $5,000 · HealthBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC: $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentNevada Museum of Art: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$201,600Education$63,000Philanthropy$30,000Human Services$5,000Health$5,000Youth Development$3,500Arts & Culture$1,000

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 budgetRenown Health Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMY HOMETOWN HEROES: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPIERCE PHILLIPS CHARITY: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $1,000 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.

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 15 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 endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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