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The Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$422k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$8.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations The Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthPhilanthropyEmploymentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$421k18%
FY202315$399k20%
FY202215$294k33%
FY202115$347k7%
FY202017$373k24%
FY201914$289k14%
FY201817$329k47%
FY201712$154kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2MEmployment$707kHuman Services$258kEnvironment$107kHealth$96kYouth Development$82kHousing & Shelter$40kCivil Rights$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Careerwise Colorado$420,00081%
St Vrain Valley Schools$350,0006n/a
5280 High School$350,00072%
Fii - National$250,50051%
Activate Work Inc$226,50053%
Schoolhouseworld Inc$200,00032%
The Cube$150,0003n/a
Thorne Ecological Institute$107,30063%
Arrupe Jesuit High School$75,0002n/a
Mindspark Learning$50,00021%
Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCareerwise Colorado: $420,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budget5280 High School: $350,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetFii - National: $250,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetActivate Work Inc: $226,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetSchoolhouseworld Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetThorne Ecological Institute: $107,300 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetMindspark Learning: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMomentum Advisory Collective: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFull Circle Program Inc: $41,750 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBe the Change Program Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetBridge House: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMedicine Horse Program: $33,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund: $28,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJunior Achievement USA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMile High United Way Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrosspurpose: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Challenge Foundation Inc: $22,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetColorado Therapeutic Riding Center: $21,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPublic Broadcasting of Colorado Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBidwell Training Center Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCapital Sisters International Inc: $7,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetElevate New York Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetProtect Our Defenders Foundation % Russell H Miller: $3,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Global Hunger Project: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProdigy Ventures Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPhilanthropy Colorado: $800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Bean Project: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetForest Heights Lodge Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Neighborhood Academy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gathering Place a Refuge for Rebuilding Lives: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation of Small Foundations: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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 Denver FoundationCO38× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Colorado Health Foundation · Denver Broncos Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · El Pomar Foundation · The Morgridge Family Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Anschutz 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.

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About The Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc

How much does The Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc give?
The Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $421,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Employment (27%), Human Services (10%).
Who are The Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Careerwise Colorado ($420k), St Vrain Valley Schools ($350k), 5280 High School ($350k).
Does The Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc 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 Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
Where is The Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc based?
The Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc is based in DE.

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 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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