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The Phyllis Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$87k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$152kHuman Services$77kEducation$64kAnimals$50kEmployment$29kReligion$27kInternational$21kCrime & Legal$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHIKONDI HEALTH FOUNDATION$12,000
RETRIEVING INDEPENDENCE$10,000
RED MOUNTAIN GRACE$9,000
TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$7,500
GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC$7,500
ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE$6,000
COLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION$5,000
STUDIO BY THE TRACKS$5,000
BIRMINGHAM AIDS OUTREACH$5,000
HAND IN PAW$5,000
HEARTS IN HANDS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
HOMEWOOD CITY SCHOOLS$4,000
CRIEVE HALL CHURCH OF CHRIST$500
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS THROUGH PASSTHROUGH$3
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COVENANT HOUSE: $4k → 17%SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS: $3k → 7%SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS: $3k → 7%HEARTS IN HANDS: $5k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $8k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $8k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $8k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $8k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $8k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $6k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $6k → 16%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM: $2k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 16%BIRMINGHAM URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$397k · 17 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
20

Total granted

$397k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+35%

Still filing today

76%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthReligionPublic BenefitInternationalAnimalsOther

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

  • CH
    Chikondi Health Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +82%
  • GH
    GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +311%
  • CC
    COLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $53k · revenue +188%

Funded once

  • TA
    The Arc of Shelby County Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +1%
  • AH
    ANGELS HOPE
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • BU
    Birmingham Urban League Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +92%

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
Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

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2
Easter Seals Alabama Inc

To provide exceptional services, education, outreach, and advocacy so that people with disabilities can live, work and play in our communities.

Health
3
Rahab House

Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…

Human Services
4
Alongside Inc

Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.

Religion
5
Agape of Central Alabama Inc

As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.

Human Services
6
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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7
Cumming Home Ministries Inc

Support and sponsor those experiencing hopelessness and homelessness, through residential rehabilitation, recovery and treatment programs, Christian-based spiritual mentopring and counseling, life skills training and resources infused with…

Housing & Shelter
8
Second Chances Foundation Inc

Providing safe affordable alcohol-free and drug-free housing to clients in rehabilitation in the memphis tn regional community.

Housing & Shelter
9
Christian Services for Children in Alabama

The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.

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10
Isaiah 58 Inc

Isaiah 58, Inc. seeks to bring hope and foster spiritual, physicial, emotional, financial, and mental health to the poor, disenfranchised, underemployed, homeless, and needy in the greater Nashville metropolitan area by providing outreach,…

Human Services
11
Service Dogs Alabama Inc

Service dogs alabama trains and provides service dogs for people with medical and psychiatric disablilites as well as intervention facility dogs. service dogs alabama provides recipients with confidence and independence enabling them to…

Animals
12
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Refuge 1212 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thrive Ada Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr20%42%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr12%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%60%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr12%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
15%
2,240/14,695

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $28,571 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHRIVE MIGHTY — $17,083 · OtherTHRIVE MIGHTYTHE SHARING TABLE — $15,000 · OtherTHE SHARING TABLETRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $12,500 · OtherTRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHThe Arc of Shelby County Inc — $7,500 · OtherANGELS HOPE — $6,507 · OtherA4ONE — $9,000 · OtherA4ONESTUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC — $12,500 · OtherSTUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC+16 more — $46,747 · Other+16 moreChikondi Health Foundation — $83,750 · HealthChikondi Health FoundationREFUGE 1212 INC — $16,000 · HealthREFUGE 1212 INCTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS — $12,500 · HealthTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY IN…Birmingham AIDS Outreach Inc — $5,000 · HealthCHRISTOPHER KIDS — $5,000 · HealthGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $56,930 · Human ServicesGRACE HOUSE MINIST…Special Equestrians Inc — $5,200 · Human ServicesSpecial Equestrian…Birmingham Urban League Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesBirmingham Urban L…HEARTS IN HANDS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesHEARTS IN HANDS IN…COVENANT HOUSE — $4,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,459 · Human ServicesCOLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION — $53,000 · EducationCOLLEGE CHOI…RETRIEVING INDEPENDENCE INC — $28,000 · AnimalsRETRIEVING…HAND IN PAW INC — $17,500 · AnimalsHAND IN PA…HELP ONE NOW — $17,500 · InternationalNEVERTHIRST INC — $3,000 · InternationalALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC — $12,000 · Public BenefitWORKING DOGS FOR VETS — $4,000 · Public Benefit
Other$155,408Health$122,250Human Services$78,589Education$53,000Animals$45,500International$20,500Public Benefit$16,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChikondi Health Foundation — $83,750 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $56,930 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCOLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION — $53,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetRETRIEVING INDEPENDENCE INC — $28,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetHAND IN PAW INC — $17,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHELP ONE NOW — $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREFUGE 1212 INC — $16,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS — $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC — $12,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetA4ONE — $9,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetThe Arc of Shelby County Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSpecial Equestrians Inc — $5,200 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBirmingham Urban League Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTS IN HANDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHRIVE ADA SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetMISSION UPREACH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBirmingham AIDS Outreach Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER KIDS — $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING DOGS FOR VETS — $4,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetNEVERTHIRST INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRMINGHAM SERVICE LEAGUE — $2,459 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC — $2,314 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $1,520 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Community Foundat…Alabama Power Foundat…Protective Life Found…The Daniel Foundation…Orlean & Ralph W Bees…Altecstyslinger Found…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Susan Mott Webb Chari…United Way of Central…Hill Crest Foundation…Mike and Gillian Good…Quarterbacking Childr…
The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL35.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Quarterbacking Children's Health 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 organization The Phyllis Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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