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Phillips Foundation Elizabeth G McKown Trustee at a glance

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Phillips Foundation Elizabeth G McKown Trustee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$38k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$44kReligion$38kEnvironment$38kFood & Nutrition$34kEducation$18kInternational$17kAnimals$15kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE$37,529
LOW COUNTRY CARES$12,529
MEALS ON WHEELS$10,000
GREER FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$10,000
MEYER CENTER$10,000
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE$10,000
GREENVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
GREEN HEART PROJECT$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,255
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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GREER RELIEF: $2k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$110k · 7 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$110k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
-5%

Still filing today

57%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • MC
    MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +67%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $14k · revenue +220%
  • TS
    THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    2× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • LO
    LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF
    one grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue -19%
  • FT
    FIRST TEE
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • TN
    THE NAOMI PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -57%
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
Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont Inc

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…

Employment
2
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
Greenville College

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.

Education
4
Southern Wesleyan University

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.

Education
5
Goodwill Industries of Central North Car

Goodwill industries of central north carolina, inc.'s mission is improving lives and enriching communities through the power of work

Employment
6
Goodwill of the Coastal Empire Inc

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.

Employment
7
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Bank of Greenwood County

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Santee Electric Cooperative Inc

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…

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10
Southeast Missouri Food Bank Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
11
Meals On Wheels of Greenville Inc

Meals on wheels of greenville, inc. enhances the quality of life of homebound individuals by providing nutritious meals, personal contact, and related services.

Food & Nutrition
12
Palmetto Goodwill 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…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greer Community Ministries Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 29 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $44,000 · OtherMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDRENGREER FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherGREER FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHFIRST TEE: $15,000 · OtherFIRST TEEMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $14,300 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INCLOW COUNTRY CARES: $12,529 · OtherLOW COUNTRY CARESASHLEY RIVER BAPTIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherASHLEY RIVER BAPTIST CHURCHLOW COUNTRY YOUTHY SERVICES: $5,000 · Other+11 more: $17,898 · Other+11 moreSUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE: $37,529 · Community ImprovementSUSTAINABILITY IN…LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $16,544 · Human ServicesLOWCOUNTRY …MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $2,250 · Human ServicesMIRACLE HIL…GREER COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesGREER COMMU…GREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesGREER RELIE…SAFE HARBOR INC: $1,878 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR…THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $12,500 · AnimalsCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NAOMI PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterLIMESTONE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · EducationNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · Education
Other$143,727Community Improvement$37,529Human Services$24,672Animals$12,500Arts & Culture$10,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Education$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $44,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $16,544 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $14,300 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NAOMI PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetGreen Heart Project Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAILY BREAD MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREER COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC: $1,878 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIMESTONE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF UPSTATEMIDLANDS SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $500 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.

Duke Energy FoundationJohn I Smith Charitie…Central Carolina Comm…Don Waggoner & Zelma …United Way of Greenvi…Spartanburg County Fo…Countybank FoundationScansource Charitable…J M Smith FoundationFoundation for the Ca…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Enterprise Holdings F…
Duke Energy FoundationNC21× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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