Rhode Island · Private foundation
The Philmoney Trust
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.
- $574k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $69,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $919k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Philmoney Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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 | 24 | $534k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $623k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $304k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $414k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $380k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union | $251,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Holt-Elwell Memorial Foundation Operating Camp Mowglis | $247,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Crossroads Rhode Island | $201,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Providence | $150,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Rhode Island Historical Society | $100,000 | 5 | 1% |
| International Documentary Foundation Inc | $90,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Hope Club Preservation Fund | $50,000 | 3 | 10% |
| The Society of the Cincinnati | $47,000 | 1 | 1% |
| 1928 Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Providence Public Library | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($907k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Philmoney Trust 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: Felicia Fund Inc · The Champlin Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Amica Companies Foundation · Heritage Harbor Foundation · Rhode Island Council for the Humanities · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Sachem Foundation · Hope Foundation · Mary D Chafee Fund Co Mark Chafee
How this is measured
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How do I get to The Philmoney Trust?
Find your warmest path to The Philmoney Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About The Philmoney Trust
- How much does The Philmoney Trust give?
- The Philmoney Trust reported 25 grants totaling $574,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Philmoney Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Youth Development (17%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
- Who are The Philmoney Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union ($252k), Holt-Elwell Memorial Foundation Operating Camp Mowglis ($248k), Crossroads Rhode Island ($202k).
- Does The Philmoney Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Philmoney Trust 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 Philmoney Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Felicia Fund Inc, The Champlin Foundation, The Rhode Island Community Foundation.
- Where is The Philmoney Trust based?
- The Philmoney Trust is based in RI.
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