Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Phi 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.
- $48k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $965k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Phi Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $47k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $86k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $45k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $30k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $75k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $45k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Saint Joseph Academy | $90,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Philly Sound Exchange LLC | $25,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Laurel House | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Good Grief Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Humble Design Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Manhattan Class Company Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Mazzoni Center | $5,400 | 2 | 0% |
| La Salle Academy | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Daily Bread Community Food Pantry | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Montgomery Child Advocacy Project | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Saint Joseph Academy | $90,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Philly Sound Exchange LLC | $25,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Laurel House | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Good Grief Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Humble Design Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Manhattan Class Company Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Mazzoni Center | $5,400 | 2 | 0% |
| La Salle Academy | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Daily Bread Community Food Pantry | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Montgomery Child Advocacy Project | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Adagp Charitable Foundation | $3,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Founding Forward (Formerly the Union League Legacy Foundation) | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Balletx | $518 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Phi Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Phi Foundation
- How much does The Phi Foundation give?
- The Phi Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $47,918 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Phi Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Human Services (27%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are The Phi Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Mount Saint Joseph Academy ($90k), Philly Sound Exchange LLC ($25k), Laurel House ($25k).
- Does The Phi Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Phi 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 Phi Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Phi Foundation based?
- The Phi Foundation is based in PA.
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