How much does The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation give?

The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $790,140 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Animals (37%), Science & Tech (4%).

Who are The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Humane Society of Greater Dayton ($3.6M), Dayton Society of Natural History ($1.6M), Dayton Performing Arts Alliance ($1.6M).

Does The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dayton Foundation, Dayton Foundation Depository, Mathile Family Foundation.

Where is The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation based?

The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation is based in OH.

The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation

The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$790k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.8MAnimals$4.0MScience & Tech$400kHealth$317kInternational$255kHuman Services$234kPublic Safety & Disaster$185kPhilanthropy$160kOther$0

02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $44k
$10k–50k9 grants · $146k
$50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$250k+1 grant · $500k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$18M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DAYTON PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE	$500,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$50,000
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY	$50,000
JUST WORLD INTERNATIONAL	$30,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER DAYTON	$20,000
DAYTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY	$20,000
ARTEMIS CENTER	$20,000
USET FOUNDATION	$15,000
DAYTON LIVE	$11,000
MUSE MACHINE	$10,000
THERAPEUTIC RIDING INSTITUTE	$10,000
ELLIE'S RAINY DAY FUND	$10,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON	$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES	$5,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART	$5,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$10M · 47 repeat orgs$488k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$10M

$483k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+18%

Still filing today

64%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureAnimalsHealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

HS
HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON
9× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +123% · 39% of their budget
DS
DAYTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY
7× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +76%
NG
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
8× · 2017–2025 · $400k · revenue +11%

Funded once

BM
BOONSHOFT MUSEUM
one grant, 2017 · $200k
DT
DAYTON THEATRE GUILD
one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -36% · 49% of their budget
UR
UNITED REHABILITATION SERVICES OF GREATER DAYTON
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +18%

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.

04Its 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.

Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture

Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

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Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

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.

Arts & Culture

The Richard H Driehaus Museum

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…

Arts & Culture

Dayton Public Radio Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

The Toledo Museum of Art

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…

Arts & Culture

The Durham Museum

Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.

Arts & Culture

New Orleans Museum of Art

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.

Arts & Culture

Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

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Culture Works

Culture works is the funding, advocacy, and service organization that passionately inspires, supports, and sustains arts and culture in the dayton region.

Arts & Culture

The Detroit Institute of Arts

The dia creates experiences that help each visitor find personal meaning in art and with each other.

Arts & Culture

The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Muse Machine Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 70 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/41

Grantees still filing

26/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$3,686,500Animals$3,679,993Other$2,402,110Education$725,000Human Services$147,500Health$91,500Food & Nutrition$27,000

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.

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.

The Dayton FoundationOH48.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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