North Carolina · Private foundation
Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $600k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $335,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $600k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $640k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $642k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $687k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $567k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $701k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $600k | 61% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $595k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williams YMCA of Avery County | $1,035,000 | 5 | 13% |
| Crossnore Communities for Children | $490,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Pisgah Legal Services | $260,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Duke University | $252,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Penland School Of Craft | $167,320 | 3 | 1% |
| Mitchell County Schools | $126,571 | 3 | n/a |
| Duke University Health System Inc | $121,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Toe River Arts Council Inc | $103,270 | 2 | 24% |
| Mitchell County Animal Rescue Inc | $59,500 | 7 | 9% |
| Appalachian Therapeutic Riding Cent | $53,800 | 2 | 35% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Amy Wellness Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Manna Food Bank Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Frank and Mary Lamberson Foundation · Owen Family Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
Compare Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation
- How much does Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation give?
- Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $600,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Human Services (22%), Health (16%).
- Who are Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Williams YMCA of Avery County ($1.0M), Crossnore Communities for Children ($490k), Pisgah Legal Services ($260k).
- Does Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Amy Wellness Foundation, Dogwood Health Trust.
- Where is Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation based?
- Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation is based in NC.
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