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The Phillips Family Foundation at a glance

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The Phillips Family 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.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$222kHealth$155kHousing & Shelter$56kEducation$50kReligion$37kYouth Development$20kHuman Services$20kInternational$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Community Food Cupboard Inc$50,000
Meals on Wheels$25,000
The Fistula Foundation$20,000
Grace Place for Children and Families$20,000
Cafe of Life Inc$20,000
Mother's Club of Haiti$10,000
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 (FY22–25, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Harvest House Inc- Harvest House Soup Kitchen: $12k → 8%Grace Place for Children and Families: $20k → 10%Harvest House Inc- Harvest House Soup Kitchen: $10k → 8%Grace Place for Children and Families: $20k → 10%Grace Place for Children and Families: $10k → 10%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

VT
MN
NY
IN
CT
CA
MD
GA
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$487k · 11 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

$487k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
0%

Still filing today

64%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $90k · revenue +150%
  • The Fistula Foundation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +47%
  • CO
    CAFE OF LIFE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • LC
    LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +52%
  • TI
    THE INTERFAITH COUNCIL OF THE NORTHSHIRE INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • NT
    NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -16%
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
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
2
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle

To feed our neighbors, teach self- sufficiency and grow healthy foods through innovative, collaborative approaches to ending hunger.

Human Services
3
Light From Light Inc

Light from light partners with local leaders to provide healthcare and nutrition for the most vulnerable communities in haiti. our vision is that no child ever dies from malnutrition. our three program focus areas are: 1) nutrition…

International
4
Habitat for Humanity Inc

Habitat seeks to eliminate poverty housing from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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5
Food & Friends Inc

To improve the lives and health of people with hiv/aids, cancer, and other serious illnesses by preparing and delivering (free of charge) specialized meals and groceries, providing nutritional counseling, and reducing social isolation.

Health
6
Habitat for Humanity International Inc

Building houses in partnership with god's people in need

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7
Habitat for Humanity of Dutchess County Inc

Habitat for humanity of dutchess county transforms lives and our community by building quality home ownership opportunities for families in need and by uniting our entire community around the cause of affordable housing.

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8
California Association of Food Banks

California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…

Food & Nutrition
9
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc

Dedicated to alleviating hunger through acquisition and distribution of food and grocery products, community education to the causes and consequences of hunger, and meaningful action on behalf of people in need of food.

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10
Foodshare Inc

Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.

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11
Greater Florence Habitat for Humanity

Putting god's love into action, hfh brings people together to build homes, communities and hope by making decent, affordable housing available to more families. habitat seeks to eliminate poverty housing from the world and make decent…

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12
Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity International Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Meals on Wheels: $50,000 · OtherMeals on WheelsKids Summer Lunch Program: $40,000 · OtherKids Summer Lunch ProgramZION EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherZION EPISCOPAL CHURCHMother's Club of Haiti: $20,000 · OtherMother's Club of HaitiBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VERMONT: $20,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VERMONTTHE INTERFAITH COUNCIL OF THE NORTHSHIRE INCORPORATED: $20,000 · OtherTHE INTERFAITH COUNCIL OF THE NORTHSHIRE I…NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $15,000 · OtherNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INCST JOHNS CHAPEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherUnited Counseling Services: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $7,000 · OtherThe Fistula Foundation: $75,000 · HealthThe Fistula Foundati…LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $20,000 · HealthLUNG CANCER FOUNDATI…SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT…COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC: $90,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD CU…GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesGRACE PLACE FO…HARVEST HOUSE INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesHARVEST HOUSE …CAFE OF LIFE INC: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterCAFE OF LI…LYME TREATMENT FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 · International
Other$217,000Health$105,000Food & Nutrition$90,000Human Services$72,000Housing & Shelter$55,000Philanthropy$40,000International$1,000

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC: $90,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAFE OF LIFE INC: $55,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLYME TREATMENT FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE INC: $22,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetLUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VERMONT: $20,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHE INTERFAITH COUNCIL OF THE NORTHSHIRE INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 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 Vermont Community…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Vermont Community FoundationVT13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Phillips Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Phillips Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Harvest House Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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