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The Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $375k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOOLHOUSE WORLD INC$75,000
ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
5280 HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
MOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE$50,000
CAREERWISE COLORADO$50,000
ACTIVATE WORK INC$50,000
ST VRAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT$50,000
CROSSPURPOSE$25,000
ONE WORLD CHILDRENS FUND$5,500
FULLCIRCLE PROGRAM INC$5,000
FULLCIRCLE PROGRAM INC$2,500
ACTIVATE WORK INC$1,500
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC$1,000
FRESH START MAKING FUTURES POSSIBLE ONE STEP AT A$1,000
CAPITAL SISTERS INTERNATIONAL INC$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $517k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FII - NATIONAL: $50k → 10%FII - NATIONAL: $50k → 10%FII - NATIONAL: $50k → 10%FII - NATIONAL: $50k → 10%FII - NATIONAL: $50k → 10%FII - NATIONAL: $500 → 10%BRIDGE HOUSE: $20k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $20k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $50k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $2k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $50k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $50k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $50k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $25k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 24 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
11

Total granted

$2.4M
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+9%

Still filing today

88%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CC
    CAREERWISE COLORADO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $420k · revenue +68%
  • 5H
    5280 HIGH SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $350k · revenue +32%
  • FII - NATIONAL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $251k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +14%
  • MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -23%
  • IH
    I Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -21%
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.

1
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
2
Denver Hybrid College

To support college students in innovative, affordable paths to in-demand careers and financial freedom.

Education
3
Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc

Junior achievement - rocky mountain, inc. (ja) is critical for inspiring and preparing young people to own their economic success. in partnership with business and educators, ja immerses students in disruptive, real-world experiences,…

International
4
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
5
Colorado Council On Economic Education

Our mission is to empower colorado students to achieve a lifetime of economic understanding and financial freedom. how will we achieve this mission? by providing economic and personal financial education to students through training…

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6
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
7
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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8
Endeavor Colorado

Endeavor colorado is a not-for-profit leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in colorado to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region. high-impact…

Community Improvement
9
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
10
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
12
Colorado Uplift Inc

Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Cube. 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

34 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. 34 of the 39 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAREERWISE COLORADO: $420,000 · EducationCAREERWISE COLORADO5280 HIGH SCHOOL: $350,000 · Education5280 HIGH SCHOOLSCHOOLHOUSEWORLD INC: $200,000 · EducationSCHOOLHOUSEWORLD INCMINDSPARK LEARNING: $50,000 · Education+3 more: $42,500 · EducationST VRAIN VALLEY SCHOOLS: $350,000 · OtherST VRAIN VALLEY SCHOOLSTHE CUBE: $150,000 · OtherTHE CUBEARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $75,000 · OtherARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLBE THE CHANGE PROGRAM INC: $40,000 · OtherBE THE CHANGE PROGRAM INCJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $25,000 · OtherCROSSPURPOSE: $25,000 · Other+11 more: $63,200 · Other+11 moreFII - NATIONAL: $250,500 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONALACTIVATE WORK INC: $226,500 · Human ServicesACTIVATE WORK INCBridge House: $40,000 · Human ServicesBridge House+1 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $107,300 · EnvironmentFULL CIRCLE PROGRAM INC: $41,750 · HealthMEDICINE HORSE PROGRAM: $33,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthOne World Childrens Fund: $28,500 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCAPITAL SISTERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $7,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,050 · PhilanthropyMOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE: $50,000 · Crime & LegalPROTECT OUR DEFENDERS FOUNDATION % RUSSELL H MILLER: $3,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$1,062,500Other$728,200Human Services$524,000Environment$107,300Health$75,250Philanthropy$62,050Crime & Legal$53,000

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 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 budgetTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% 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
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 Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Rose Community Founda…Daniels FundThe Colorado Health F…Denver Broncos Founda…Gates Family Foundati…Mile High United Way …El Pomar FoundationThe Morgridge Family …Adolph Coors Foundati…The Anschutz Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    Find your warmest path to The Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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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