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Richard E Phelps Sr Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$492k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
21%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$230,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 14
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$14M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Richard E Phelps Sr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$492k7%
FY202414$300k21%
FY202312$125kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Animals$348kHuman Services$207kFood & Nutrition$26kHousing & Shelter$17kHealth$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Richard E Phelps Sr Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Center$137,500313%
Juan Diez Rancheros Abundant Life Ranchers$95,000342%
The 180 Zone$75,00031%
Cedar Bend Humane Society$36,50031%
Humane Society of Scott County$36,50022%
Midwest Pets for Life$36,500310%
Hope at the Brick House Inc$24,00033%
Milan Christian Food Pantry$23,500311%
River Bend Food Reservoir$22,00020%
Humility Homes and Services Inc$20,00020%
Smile Train Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($410k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Richard E Phelps Sr Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Center: $137,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetJuan Diez Rancheros Abundant Life Ranchers: $95,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetThe 180 Zone: $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCedar Bend Humane Society: $36,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHumane Society of Scott County: $36,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMidwest Pets for Life: $36,500 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetHope at the Brick House Inc: $24,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMilan Christian Food Pantry: $23,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetRiver Bend Food Reservoir: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumility Homes and Services Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Quad Cities Community FoundationIA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Scott County Regional Authority · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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About Richard E Phelps Sr Foundation

How much does Richard E Phelps Sr Foundation give?
Richard E Phelps Sr Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $492,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 14 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Richard E Phelps Sr Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (56%), Human Services (33%), Food & Nutrition (4%).
Who are Richard E Phelps Sr Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: The Center ($138k), Juan Diez Rancheros Abundant Life Ranchers ($95k), The 180 Zone ($75k).
Does Richard E Phelps Sr Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Richard E Phelps Sr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Richard E Phelps Sr Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Quad Cities Community Foundation, Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation, Baird Foundation Inc.
Where is Richard E Phelps Sr Foundation based?
Richard E Phelps Sr Foundation is based in IL.

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.

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