· Private foundation
The Earl N Phillips Jr Family
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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOLON COMMUNITY LIVING | $25,000 |
| HOPEWAY | $15,000 |
| CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOL | $11,500 |
| THE UNC AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| THE ASSEMBLY GROWTH CHALLENGE FUND | $5,000 |
| GOOD FRIENDS OF LOW COUNTRY | $4,500 |
| EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| FIRST SCOTS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,500 |
| NC STUDY CENTER | $2,500 |
| CHAPEL OF THE CROSS | $2,000 |
| THE JED FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHARLOTTE BALLET | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| PENNYBYRN | $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 (FY19–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 14 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D5× · 2018–2023 · $110k · revenue +31%
- CDCHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC4× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +29%
SHARE OUR STRENGTH4× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2018 · $110k
- HEHIGHER EDUCATION WORKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Queens university of charlotte provides transformative educational experiences that nurture intellectual curiosity, promote global understanding, encourage ethical living and prepare individuals for purposeful and fulfilling lives.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
The mission of the foundation is: to foster and promote the profession of pharmacy and pharmaceutical education and research exclusively at the unc eshelman school of pharmacy.
How this is measured
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 125 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 BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds SOLON COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE BALLET ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds BEYOND TYPE 1 ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ED WORKS ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BE LOUD SOPHIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEART'S CRY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · The Dickson Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · John M Rivers Jr Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Earl N Phillips Jr Family funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Earl N Phillips Jr Family. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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