· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k12 grants · $207k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCOTT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $230,000 |
| THE CENTER | $55,000 |
| JUAN DIEZ RANCHEROS | $35,000 |
| ONE EIGHTY | $25,000 |
| QC ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER | $20,000 |
| KINGS HARVEST PET RESCUE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| MUSCATINE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| CEDAR BEND HUMANE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| MIDWEST PETS FOR LIFE | $15,000 |
| RIVERBEND FOOD BANK | $12,000 |
| MILAN CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| HUMILITY HOMES & SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| HOPE AT THE BRICK HOUSE | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $267k 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
- TCTHE CENTER2× · 2023–2025 · $78k · revenue +28%
- T1THE 180 ZONE2× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +2%
- HAHOPE AT THE BRICK HOUSE INC2× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF SCOTT COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +32%
SMILE TRAIN INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +22%
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.
The marion county humane society was established for the purpose of providing temporary care and housing of stray or homeless dogs and cats, to assist in the return of lost dogs and cats to their owners, to provide a means of finding new…
The des moines county humane society provides shelter and rescue operations for animals in des moines county, secures permanent, loving homes for abandoned, abused, or neglected animals, and teaches responsible pet ownership and compassion…
The organization rescues animals and cares for them until they can find them qualified homes.
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
Animal shelter and rescue
To take in stray and abandoned cats and care for their medical and shelter needs until they can be adopted by the public.
Heartland Humane Society of Missouri is a 501 c3 non profit group of dedicated foster homes that gives abandoned abused and unwanted animals another chance for loving permanent homes through our adoption program following the no-kill…
The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…
Heartland humane society is a no-kill shelter for dogs and cats. the mission is to provide temporary shelter and care to homeless/lost animals, to educate the public on proper care of animals, and to promote neuter and spay programs.
The organization's mission is to promote the humane treatment of animals.
To shelter and find forever homes for homeless dogs and cats.
The kershaw county humane society is dedicated to providing food, housing and medical care to all lost or homeless animals. our goal is to reunite pets with their owners and to address the root causes of animal abuse and overpopulation…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 180 Zone and the most unlike its peers is The Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 THE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUAN DIEZ RANCHEROS ABUNDANT LIFE RANCHERS ↗
- Who funds THE 180 ZONE ↗
- Who funds CEDAR BEND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST PETS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds HOPE AT THE BRICK HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MILAN CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds HUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SCOTT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN 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: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Scott County Regional Authority · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Richard E Phelps Sr 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.
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.