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The Phocas Family Foundation at a glance

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The Phocas 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.

$62k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$260kEducation$56kReligion$56kEnvironment$51kArts & Culture$38kYouth Development$12kRecreation & Sports$7kHealth$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$4,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$587k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Community Foundation of Jackson Hole$25,000
Theodor Lessing Foundation$20,000
Wave Hill$5,000
Jackson Hole Historical Society$5,000
Coombs Outdoors$4,000
St Michael Episcopal Church$2,000
Owls Head Transportation Museum$1,000
Sanibel Music Festival$300
Island Institute$150
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FISH of Sancap: $200 → 11%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

ME
VT
IL
NY
OR
WY
CO
MO
TN
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$289k · 16 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
18

Total granted

$289k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+85%

Still filing today

69%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TO
    The Owls Head Transportation Museum
    6× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +122%
  • WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue +29%
  • ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +33%
  • TA
    THE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -9%
  • PO
    PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +85%
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
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole; the most unlike its peers is The Theodor Lessing Foundation. 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

22 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. 22 of the 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $169,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLEThe Theodor Lessing Foundation: $90,000 · PhilanthropyThe Theodor Lessing FoundationST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $40,000 · OtherST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL…Jackson Hole Historical Society: $10,000 · OtherJackson Hole Histor…St Michael's Church: $7,000 · OtherSt Michael's ChurchChrist Church Riverdale: $6,900 · OtherChrist Church River…Mosaic Riverdale Mental Health: $4,000 · OtherTHE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherTHE ALOHA FOUNDATIO…+17 more: $12,950 · Other+17 moreWAVE HILL INCORPORATED: $45,500 · EnvironmentWAVE HILL I…PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR…+1 more: $100 · EnvironmentWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $5,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,000 · Education+2 more: $1,050 · EducationThe Owls Head Transportation Museum: $26,200 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,150 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $20,000 · Public BenefitThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $11,500 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$259,500Other$85,850Environment$50,600Education$34,050Arts & Culture$27,350Public Benefit$20,000Youth Development$11,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $169,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Theodor Lessing Foundation: $90,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetWAVE HILL INCORPORATED: $45,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Owls Head Transportation Museum: $26,200 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $11,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Lighthouse Museum: $850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKLAND DISTRICT NURSING ASSOCIATION: $500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIsland Institute: $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVIAN HAVEN: $150 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Jackson HoleWY13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Phocas Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Phocas Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Willamette University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Phocas Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Phocas Family Foundation 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.

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 38 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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