Skip to content
Philos Foundation Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Philos Foundation Inc

TO PROVIDE MULTIPLE LEVELS OF SOCIAL SERVICES SUPPORT AND POSTIVELY IMPACT THE LIVES OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY.

$171k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$240kYouth Development$100kHuman Services$98kCrime & Legal$23kHousing & Shelter$21kPhilanthropy$10kEmployment$5kCommunity Improvement$1k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $164k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER$45,000
MERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS$25,340
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$22,600
WINDY CITY CARES$21,000
THRIVE$20,000
CHERI AMORE MEMORIAL INC$10,000
LITTLE WARRIORS FOUNDATION$10,000
SAMUEL BELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$10,000
THE FERRER FOUNDATION ONE FOR ONE CHICAGO$5,000
IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO$1,325
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DIOCESE OF VENICE INC$1,036
KIDS TOO$52
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $1k → 9%THE PUERTO RICO PROJECT: $15k → 14%THE WOMEN'S TREATMENT CENTER: $42k → 14%THE WOMEN'S TREATMENT CENTER: $20k → 14%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$337k · 3 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
2

Total granted

$337k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+41%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • BF
    BREAKING FREE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue -79%
  • TB
    THE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP
    2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +33%
  • TW
    The Womens Treatment Center DBA TWTC Changed to Windy City Cares
    2× · 2023–2024 · $62k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • L4
    LIVE 4 LALI INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • PR
    PUERTO RICO PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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
Colorado Wellness Center for Girls
—
2
Addictsmom Org

To help children fight drug addiction

—
3
Center for Youth Mental Health

The Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health exists to expand access to quality evidence-based youth mental health support as quickly as possible.

Health
4
Maria I New Childrens Hormone Foundation Inc Co R Tucker Tucker & Latifi Llp
Health
5
Focus Fairies Mentoring

Focus Fairies Mentoring is a community-based nonprofit that empowers and uplifts Black girls and young women of color, ages 7 to 21, on Chicago's West and South sides who have experienced vicarious trauma, violence, and systemic inequities.

Youth Development
6
Heal Chicago

To strengthen communities through educational dialogue, leadership development, emotional resilience, and intercultural competence programs that help people bridge differences and build trust.

Public Benefit
7
Center to Combat Human Trafficking
—
8
The Nick Bales Btr Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Confidence Rules

Prevent and avoid abuse in youth

—
10
Students Run Chicago
Health
11
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
12
Girls for Empowerment

Counseling young girls mental health

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Children's Advocacy Center; the most unlike its peers is Puerto Rico Project. 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BREAKING FREE INC: $200,000 · OtherBREAKING FREE INCMERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $25,340 · OtherMERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLSWINDY CITY CARES: $21,000 · OtherWINDY CITY CARESTHRIVE: $20,000 · OtherTHRIVESAMUEL BELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BRIDGE TEEN CE…ONE FOR ONE CHICAGO: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentONE FOR ONE CHICAG…The Womens Treatment Center DBA TWTC Changed to Windy City Cares: $61,639 · Human ServicesThe Womens Treatm…PUERTO RICO PROJECT: $15,000 · Human ServicesPUERTO RICO PROJE…+1 more: $1,036 · Human ServicesCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $22,600 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $52 · Crime & LegalCHERI AMORE MEMORIAL INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLITTLE WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $1,325 · PhilanthropyLIVE 4 LALI INC: $20,000 · Health
Other$276,340Youth Development$80,000Human Services$77,675Crime & Legal$22,652Philanthropy$21,325Health$20,000

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 budgetBREAKING FREE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP: $75,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetThe Womens Treatment Center DBA TWTC Changed to Windy City Cares: $61,639 over 2y, 15% of budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $22,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIVE 4 LALI INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPUERTO RICO PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetIMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $1,325 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $1,036 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS AGAINST CHILD SEX ABUSE DBA KIDS TOO: $52 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FundMA3× 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 Philos Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philos Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Philos Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Philos Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Philos’ filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home