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· Private foundation
THE PHILLIPS FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$168k
Granted FY2023
19
Grants
6
Communities
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of THE PHILLIPS FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
shelby
2019
shelby
2020
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2021
shelby
2022
healthbuckeyeshelby
2023
shelter
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 19 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k13 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
$5,904
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- PEACE FELLOWSHIP$35,000
- ST MARYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$30,000
- FFTC$15,000
- LOVE ON A MISSION$10,000
- ARLIN SESSION$10,000
- NAPLES PRIDE$10,000
- GIRLS SCOUT$7,265
- JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$7,265
- BUCKEYE COUNCIL BOYS SCOUT$7,265
- SHELBY CROSSING$5,904
- GRAVITY OHIO$5,000
- MANSFIELD CITY SCHOOLS$5,000
- RICHLAND OUTREACH CENTER$5,000
- CENTER STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENT$5,000
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC$3,000
02The need
04
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 22 repeat orgs$343k to everyone else
22 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
22
22
Total granted
$1.2M
$261k
Still filing today
23%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Youth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- RCRICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2021 · $200k · revenue +86%
- DSDISCOVERY SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $192k · revenue +11%
- LOLOVE ON A MISSION3× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +57% · 34% of their budget
Funded once
- UOUNITY OF NAPLESone grant, 2022 · $64k
- BRBLUE ROSE MISSIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- BHBUCKEYE HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
Nami of Richland County Ohio
Our mission is to improve the quality of life, ensure dignity and respect for persons with mental illness, and to support their families.
Health
2
Open Doors Inc
Open doors academy (oda) provides year-round out-of-school time academic and enrichment programs to youth living in underserved communities. oda is based in cleveland, ohio and operates programs in northeast, northwest, and central ohio.…
Youth Development
3
The Arc of Ohio Inc
To advocate for human rights, personal dignity and community participation of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, through legislative and social action, information and education, and local chapter support and…
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4
Ohio Living Communities
To provide older adults with caring and quality services toward the enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well being consistent with the christian gospel.
Human Services
5
Residential Home for the
Built on a foundation of compassion and integrity, rhdd is dedicated to supporting individuals with a disability, to live and work in their communities.safe in a family environment, individuals are empowered to achieve personal and…
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6
Rochester Youth Soccer League
Rochester youth soccer league's (rysl) mission is to empower individuals of all ages and abilities through the transformative power of sports and physical activity. we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to participate in and…
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7
Lead Ohio
Lead ohio fills a unique gap in ohio's progressive infrastructure through a series of training programs designed for community leaders with a special focus on equity for groups who are underrepresented in government. this includes, but is…
Education
8
Ohio Business Leadership Network
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9
Ohio Digital Learning School
Ohio digital learning school (odls) is a full-time online public school for students in grades 9-12, ages 16-21. we're dedicated to inspiring and empowering students through an education experience tailored to their needs.
Education
10
Special Olympics Michigan Inc
The special olympics movement uses sport as a vehicle for acceptance, respect, inclusion, dignity, and joy. we provide year-round sports training and competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
Recreation & Sports
11
Life Connection of Ohio
Secure organ and tissue donors and coordinate transplant services.
Health
12
Vision Usa - the Ohio Vision
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richland County Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mid-Ohio Youth Mentoring. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,133,115Philanthropy$200,000Education$191,500Youth Development$49,700Civil Rights$10,000Human Services$5,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Richland County FoundationOH13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Richland County Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation THE PHILLIPS FAMILY FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LOVE ON A MISSION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +57% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 475045002 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on LOVE ON A MISSION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 34% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Phillips Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Phillips Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines