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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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $363k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL DRIVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,550,000 |
| MEMORIAL HERMANN FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| LSU FOUNDATION | $505,000 |
| WORK FAITH CONNECTION | $275,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $250,000 |
| ONE GOAL | $150,000 |
| MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES | $150,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $125,000 |
| SMALL STEPS NURTURING CENTER | $123,750 |
| SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON | $100,000 |
| TIGER ATHELETIC FOUNDATION | $62,400 |
| LOVING HOUSTON | $50,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHILDRENS HOMES AND SERVICES | $50,000 |
| IMPACT CHURCH OF CHRIST | $50,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
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.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k 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
- MHMemorial Hermann Foundation4× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +88%
- TWTHE WORKFAITH CONNECTION3× · 2022–2024 · $625k · revenue +18%
- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2022–2024 · $375k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- MDMemorial Drive Presbyterian Churchone grant, 2020 · $1.1M
- KGKingdom Giving Fund (Christian Community Fdtn)one grant, 2020 · $809k
YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -57%
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.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loving Houston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Climb Haier International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 94 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 Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE WORKFAITH CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Memorial Assistance Ministries ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT ↗
- Who funds SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds LOVING HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST'S HOPE AND RECONCILIATION MINISTRY ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Shell USA Company Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Houston Endowment Inc · The Fondren Foundation · The Robert and Janice McNair 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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.
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