· Private foundation
The Phillis 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Helping Hands for Hospitals Int Inc | $50,000 |
| Intervarsity | $26,000 |
| Friends of Wycliffe Hall Oxford | $20,010 |
| Wellspring Church | $5,000 |
| Frontiers | $5,000 |
| Carmel Presbyterian Church | $3,000 |
| Assemblies of God World Missions | $3,000 |
| Crossgate Church | $3,000 |
| CRU | $3,000 |
| Christian Art Network Ltd | $1,500 |
| Fellowship for Performing Arts | $1,000 |
| St Nicholas Orthodox Church | $1,000 |
| New Horizons Foundation | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 21% of The Phillis Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EEdify2× · 2023–2024 · $220k · revenue +11%
- FOFRIENDS OF WYCLIFFE HALL OXFORD INC6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +81%
- BIBREAKTHROUGH INC5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- DCDavid Caleb Cook Foundationone grant, 2022 · $163k
- DCDavid Caleg Cook Foundationone grant, 2021 · $45k
- HHHelping Hands for Hospitals Intlone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -13%
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.
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.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Fueling the global mission of christ by growing trusted relationships and helping the church live out its missional calling.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
To provide support for the efforts of christians of the former soviet union in reaching the influencers of their countries for christ.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…
To engage in local and overseas evangelism, mission training & supports, empowering churches worldwide to live out the short-term mission movement, where chiristians can participate in sharing the gospel and fulfilling the great commission.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Edify ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WYCLIFFE HALL OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands for Hospitals Intl ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds REGENT COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Phillis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Phillis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Play a game based on Phillis’ filings →