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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 FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Phyllis Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationInternationalArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$87k33%
FY202315$70k33%
FY202210$63k50%
FY20219$68k44%
FY20209$61k33%
FY20198$48k25%
FY201811$49k64%
FY201711$47kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees
All grantees of The Phyllis Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chikondi Health Foundation$83,75084%
Grace House Ministries Inc$56,93081%
College Choice Foundation$53,00076%
Retrieving Independence Inc$28,00032%
Help One Now$17,50030%
Hand in Paw Inc$17,50051%
Thrive Mighty$17,0832n/a
Refuge 1212 Inc$16,00021%
Studio by the Tracks Inc$12,50031%
The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs$12,50030%
Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc$12,00020%
A4one$9,00034%
The Arc of Shelby County Inc$7,50010%
Angels Hope$6,5071n/a
Special Equestrians Inc$5,20021%
Birmingham AIDS Outreach Inc$5,00010%
Birmingham Urban League Inc$5,00010%
Mission Upreach Inc$5,00010%
Christopher Kids$5,00014%
Hearts in Hands Inc$5,00012%
Thrive Ada Services$5,00018%
Covenant House$4,00010%
Working Dogs for Vets$4,00016%
Be A Blessing Birmingham$3,5001n/a
Neverthirst Inc$3,00010%
Birmingham Service League$2,45911%
Open Table of Nashville Inc$2,31410%
By Our Love$1,8501n/a
Conservation International Foundation$1,52010%
Crieve Hall Church of Christ$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($83k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Phyllis Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetHelp One Now: $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHand in Paw Inc: $17,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetRefuge 1212 Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetStudio by the Tracks Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% 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 AIDS Outreach Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirmingham Urban League Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMission Upreach Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChristopher Kids: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHearts in Hands Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThrive Ada Services: $5,000 over 1y, 7.8% 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

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

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.

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About The Phyllis Foundation Inc

How much does The Phyllis Foundation Inc give?
The Phyllis Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $86,503 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Phyllis Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (31%), Human Services (16%), Education (13%).
Who are The Phyllis Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Chikondi Health Foundation ($84k), Grace House Ministries Inc ($57k), College Choice Foundation ($53k).
Does The Phyllis Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Phyllis Foundation Inc 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 Phyllis Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Alabama Power Foundation Inc, Protective Life Foundation.
Where is The Phyllis Foundation Inc based?
The Phyllis Foundation Inc is based in AL.

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 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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