· Private foundation
Phillips Foundation Elizabeth G McKown Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of PHILLIPS FOUNDATION ELIZABETH G MCKOWN TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE | $37,529 |
| LOW COUNTRY CARES | $12,529 |
| MEYER CENTER | $10,000 |
| GREENVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| GREER FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| GREEN HEART PROJECT | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,255 |
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 (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- MCMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +67%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS INC4× · 2019–2025 · $14k · revenue +220%
- TSTHE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS2× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- LOLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEFone grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue -19%
- FTFIRST TEEone grant, 2020 · $15k
- TNTHE NAOMI PROJECT INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · 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.
Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
Goodwill industries of central north carolina, inc.'s mission is improving lives and enriching communities through the power of work
Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
The mission of the food bank of greenwood county is to reduce hunger through community cooperation, effectively distributing donated grocery products and perishable foods, and making the best possible use of all available resources.
To provide quality service and products to meet the energy needs of our members at a competitive price consistent with sound business practices, while enhancing the quality of life in our service area through the support of economic, civic…
The mission of the southeast missouri food bank is to promote food recovery; acquire and distribute food and household products; and provide community leadership and education on issues of hunger and poverty in an effort to alleviate…
Meals on wheels of greenville, inc. enhances the quality of life of homebound individuals by providing nutritious meals, personal contact, and related services.
Palmetto goodwill service's (goodwill) mission is changing lives by providing equitable access to training, education, and employment. goodwill enriches the lives of people while providing quality service to customers. work and training…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greer Community Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Green Heart Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 29 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 MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NAOMI PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Green Heart Project Inc ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREER COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIMESTONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF UPSTATEMIDLANDS SOUTH CAROLINA 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: Duke Energy Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Spartanburg County Foundation · Countybank Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 Foundation Elizabeth G McKown Trustee 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.
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.