· Private foundation
Richard J Phelps Charitable 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON GLOBE CHARITABLE FDN | $36,000 |
| THE JIMMY FUND | $20,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $16,000 |
| PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $4,000 |
| PALM BEACH ISLAND HOPSICE | $2,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| IRELAND FUNDS OF AMERICA | $2,000 |
| BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| COMMON CAUSE | $1,000 |
| SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH | $1,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $1,000 |
| HEART OF THE NATION | $500 |
| ESPERANZA ACADEMY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 8 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $72k · revenue +24%- PBPUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE2× · 2023–2024 · $26k · revenue +28%
- SESt Edwards University4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +4%
Funded once
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue -2%
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%- YTYOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $6k
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.
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…
The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 83 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND BASEBALL CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds St Edwards University ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Par 3 Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENNIS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard J Phelps Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard J Phelps Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
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