· Private foundation
Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $182k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY | $250,000 |
| MITCHELL COUNTY SCHOOLS | $106,571 |
| MAYLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FND | $75,000 |
| MARYLAND EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| HIGH COUNTRY YOUTH BALLET INC | $45,000 |
| BULADEAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $37,800 |
| PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES | $25,000 |
| ECU MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES | $25,000 |
| GO GLOBAL INC | $20,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $5,000 |
| LILY BRANCH BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| MITCHELL COUNTY SAFE PLACE | $1,000 |
| MT ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
30 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
- WYWILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY5× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +121%
- CCCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN2× · 2019–2020 · $490k · revenue +4%
DUKE UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $251k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- CSCROSSNORE SCHOOL INCORPORATEDone grant, 2018 · $260k
DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $121k · revenue +85%- AMARTHUR MORGAN SCHOOL INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -15%
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.
Improve healthcare in rural communities
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
To provide advanced electronic and information technologies to the nc education community, public health, and government agencies and to benefit economic development in nc.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
To provide management and administrative services to all mount nittany health susidiaries.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To create high quality employment opportunities for unemployed and underemployed residents of mitchell, avery, and yancey counties in north carolina
Provide services for elderly
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To enhance the health of our community by providing comprehensive quality primary care.
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Community Health Partnership Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp Spring Creek Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 59 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 WILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Therapeutic Riding Cent ↗
- Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
- Who funds SPRUCE PINE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR MORGAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SPRUCE PINE MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds AMY WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP SPRING CREEK INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL EDUCATION PARTNERS OF MITCHELL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS 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: 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
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 Samuel L Phillips Family 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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