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The Phillips Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$168k
Granted FY2023
19
Grants FY2023
19
Organizations funded FY2023
58%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$5,904
Largest grant, FY2023
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
6
Total assets, FY2023
$4.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 58% of the organizations The Phillips Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
Youth DevelopmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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
FY202319$168k58%
FY202216$331k31%
FY202120$248k40%
FY202011$97k27%
FY201915$136k53%
FY201814$224k43%
FY201713$184kn/a
72% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$530kPhilanthropy$228kYouth Development$144kReligion$87kHealth$75kCivil Rights$74kHuman Services$37kHousing & Shelter$28kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
CA
KY
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Discovery School Inc$191,50064%
Unity of Naples$63,5981n/a
Julie Billiart School$50,0004n/a
Love on a Mission$35,000334%
Peace Fellowship$35,0001n/a
Blue Rose Mission$25,0001n/a
Peace Fellowship Inc$20,0001n/a
Lawrence School$15,00020%
Mid-Ohio Youth Mentoring$14,70052%
Riders Unlimited Inc$13,00027%
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All grantees of The Phillips Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Discovery School Inc$191,50064%
Unity of Naples$63,5981n/a
Julie Billiart School$50,0004n/a
Love on a Mission$35,000334%
Peace Fellowship$35,0001n/a
Blue Rose Mission$25,0001n/a
Peace Fellowship Inc$20,0001n/a
Lawrence School$15,00020%
Mid-Ohio Youth Mentoring$14,70052%
Riders Unlimited Inc$13,00027%
Naples Pride Inc$10,00014%
Richland Outreach Center$5,0001n/a
Richland Academy of the Arts$3,00010%
Special Olympics Ohio Inc$3,00010%
Habitat for Humanity Inc$2,5001n/a
The Domestic Violence Shelter Inc$2,00010%
Building Blocks Foundation$2,00011%

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($899k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Phillips Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDiscovery School Inc: $191,500 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetLove on a Mission: $35,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetLawrence School: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMid-Ohio Youth Mentoring: $14,700 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetRiders Unlimited Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetNaples Pride Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetRichland Academy of the Arts: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSpecial Olympics Ohio Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Domestic Violence Shelter Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBuilding Blocks Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 10.

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.

Richland County FoundationOH17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Richland County Foundation · The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About The Phillips Family Foundation

How much does The Phillips Family Foundation give?
The Phillips Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $168,349 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Phillips Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (33%), Philanthropy (14%), Youth Development (9%).
Who are The Phillips Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Discovery School Inc ($192k), Unity of Naples ($64k), Julie Billiart School ($50k).
Does The Phillips Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Phillips Family 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 Phillips Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Richland County Foundation, The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
Where is The Phillips Family Foundation based?
The Phillips Family Foundation is based in KY.

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 55 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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