· Private foundation
The Jesse and Caryl Philips 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAYTON PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE | $500,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| JUST WORLD INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| DAYTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER DAYTON | $20,000 |
| ARTEMIS CENTER | $20,000 |
| USET FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| DAYTON LIVE | $11,000 |
| ELLIE'S RAINY DAY FUND | $10,000 |
| MUSE MACHINE | $10,000 |
| THERAPEUTIC RIDING INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON | $5,000 |
| CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS | $5,000 |
| BRIGID'S PATH | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
47 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON9× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +123% · 39% of their budget
- DSDAYTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY7× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +76%
- NGNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $400k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- BMBOONSHOFT MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $200k
- DTDAYTON THEATRE GUILDone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -36% · 49% of their budget
- DCDAYTON CONTEMORARY DANCE COone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.
The driehaus museum engages and inspires the global community through exploration and ongoing conversations in art, architecture, and design of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. its permanent collection and temporary…
Using multiple technologies, member-supported discover classical 88.1 fm, 89.1 fm and 89.9 fm celebrates and advances classical music and the fine arts to enrich the lives of our listeners.
For 124 years, the toledo museum of art has offered free admission to one of the world's great art collections housed in its greek revival main building and the glass pavilion. the museum has an extensive education program, offering…
Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.
Culture works is the funding, advocacy, and service organization that passionately inspires, supports, and sustains arts and culture in the dayton region.
The dia creates experiences that help each visitor find personal meaning in art and with each other.
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Muse Machine Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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 47 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 70 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON ↗
- Who funds DAYTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Dayton Performing Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JustWorld International Inc ↗
- Who funds DAYTON HISTORY ↗
- Who funds DAYBREAK INC ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC RIDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DAYTON THEATRE GUILD ↗
- Who funds THE MUSE MACHINE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTEMIS CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds SAY YES TO EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ORPHAN DISEASE PATHWAY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds UNITED REHABILITATION SERVICES OF GREATER DAYTON ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Ellies Rainy Day Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds EQUUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CULTUREWORKS ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES THAT WORK ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY ↗
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 Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Mathile Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · Levin Family Foundation · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · The Berry Family Foundation · Frank M Tait Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Kettering Family Foundation
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 The Jesse and Caryl Philips 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.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 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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