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The Graymer Phoenix Foundation Inc

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.

$79k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEP FORWARD SCHOLARSHIP FUND$10,000
PUPPIES BEHIND BARS$10,000
OLD FRIENDS$5,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
LAND CONSERVANCY OF NJ$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SHINING LIGHT GARDEN$5,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$5,000
THE PINGRY SCHOOL$3,000
MORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL$3,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$2,500
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NEW VERNON$2,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$2,000
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS$2,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide educational services, see schedule o.

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morristown-Beard School; the most unlike its peers is Old Friends Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
1/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STEP FORWARD SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $10,000 · EducationSTEP FORWARD SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCDUKE UNIVERSITY: $9,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONMORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL: $3,000 · EducationMORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOLHeart Math Tutoring Inc: $2,000 · EducationHeart Math Tutoring IncIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHINING LIGHT GARDEN: $5,000 · OtherSHINING LIGHT GARDENTHE PINGRY SCHOOL: $3,000 · OtherTHE PINGRY SCHOOLFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NEW VERNON: $2,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NEW…OARS (ORGANIZATION OF THE ASSABET RIVER): $2,000 · OtherOARS (ORGANIZATION OF THE ASSABE…DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE - DCI HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES AND CELLULAR THERAPY: $2,000 · OtherDUKE CANCER INSTITUTE - DCI HEMA…SAVING GRACE: $2,000 · OtherSAVING GRACEMASS AUDUBON: $1,500 · OtherMASS AUDUBONPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHIND…THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY: $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND C…THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTE…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthOld Friends Inc: $5,000 · Animals
Education$29,500Other$22,500Human Services$10,000Environment$7,000Health$5,000Animals$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTEP FORWARD SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOld Friends Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Graymer Phoenix Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Graymer Phoenix Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Morristown-Beard School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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