Texas · Private foundation
The Phoenix Charitable 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.
- $281k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $106,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $957k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Phoenix Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 | $281k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $280k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $496k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $497k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $514k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $561k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $327k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $448k | 61% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Biomedical Research Institute | $1,052,730 | 7 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $491,500 | 9 | 0% |
| San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc | $326,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Child Bridge Inc | $220,000 | 7 | 2% |
| San Antonio Area Foundation | $131,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Edify | $125,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Bk Asher Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 100% |
| Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc | $50,100 | 6 | 1% |
| Kalispell Regional Healthcare Foundation | $23,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($995k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Phoenix Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Circle Bar Foundation · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The Phoenix Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Phoenix Charitable Foundation give?
- The Phoenix Charitable Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $281,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Phoenix Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Education (25%), Community Improvement (16%).
- Who are The Phoenix Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Texas Biomedical Research Institute ($1.1M), Teach for America Inc ($492k), San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc ($327k).
- Does The Phoenix Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Phoenix Charitable 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 Phoenix Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is The Phoenix Charitable Foundation based?
- The Phoenix Charitable Foundation is based in TX.
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