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Phillips Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of the Children Portland | $50,000 |
| De La Salle North Catholic High Sch | $20,000 |
| St Andrews Catholic Church Comm Cen | $10,000 |
| Oregon Health Science University Fo | $10,000 |
| Victory Academy | $10,000 |
| Silver Lake Fire Department | $10,000 |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $5,000 |
| Western Oregon University | $4,000 |
| Oregon Adaptive Sports | $2,500 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospita | $2,000 |
| Hearing Health Foundation | $1,000 |
| Folds of Honor | $1,000 |
| Old Town Church Forest Grove | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 38% of Phillips Family 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. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in OR; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND7× · 2017–2024 · $184k · revenue +12%- EMEisenhower Medical Center4× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +48%
Victory Academy Inc2× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +13%
- LHLEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +72%
- FOFriends of the Children Klamath Basone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
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.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The organization is the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. together with the world's leading brands, disability:in drives progress on disability inclusion through initiatives, tools, and expertise that…
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
Goodlife's mission is to make a meaningful difference in the everyday lives of individuals who need help to live more independently (individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, brain injuries, physical or age-related…
We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
We commit to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from kindergarten through high school…
To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.
Children's national coordinates the overall policy and activities of the affiliated organizations. see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical Teams International and the most unlike its peers is Waldos Rescue Pen Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 43 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 FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Victory Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEMONADE INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WHITE BIRD ↗
- Who funds THE ADD IMPACT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PORTLAND METROPOLITAN AREA ↗
- Who funds Waldos Rescue Pen Inc ↗
- Who funds Bunnys Buddies ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Oregon ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GGS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DOOR TO GRACE ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Rmf Foundation · Wheeler Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union
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 Family 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.
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- White Bird — 2% 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.