How much did THE PHYLLIS FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

THE PHYLLIS FOUNDATION INC reported 15 grants totaling $86,503 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE PHYLLIS FOUNDATION INC based?

THE PHYLLIS FOUNDATION INC is based in AL.

THE PHYLLIS FOUNDATION INC

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

THE PHYLLIS FOUNDATION INC

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$87k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$12k

Largest

01What you fund

0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$94kHuman Services$79kEducation$53kAnimals$46kInternational$21kPublic Benefit$16kReligion$16kArts & Culture$13kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$153k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

birmingham

2019

developingcarelow-income

2020

birminghamdevelopinglow-income

2021

low-income

2022

low-income

2023

low-income

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 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

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

CHIKONDI HEALTH FOUNDATION$12,000
RETRIEVING INDEPENDENCE$10,000
RED MOUNTAIN GRACE$9,000
GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC$7,500
TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$7,500
ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE$6,000
HEARTS IN HANDS$5,000
COLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION$5,000
HAND IN PAW$5,000
REDEEMING GRACE$5,000
BIRMINGHAM AIDS OUTREACH$5,000
STUDIO BY THE TRACKS$5,000
HOMEWOOD CITY SCHOOLS$4,000
CRIEVE HALL CHURCH OF CHRIST$500
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS THROUGH PASSTHROUGH$3

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

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

Total granted

$397k

$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%

+4%

Still filing today

65%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

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 +195%

Funded once

TA
THE ARC OF SHELBY COUNTYgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +31%
AH
ANGELS HOPE
one grant, 2022 · $7k
MU
MISSION UPREACHgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +25%

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.

Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

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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

Service Dogs Alabama Inc

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

Animals

Thrive Memphis

To enrich the lives of the developmentally challenged by meeting their social, recreational and continuing educational needs.

Human Services

Hope Alive Inc

Christ-based ministry with the mission of bringing hope and encouragement with christ-like love to emotionally hurting people through mental health counseling and transitional housing for homeless women with a mental illness.

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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

Guidelight Inc

Guidelight exists for pursuit of Christ-centered transformation in the lives of those impacted by disability through proclaiming biblical truth and providing needed resources.

Human Services

Community Kitchens of Birmingham

Assistance to homeless and needy persons.

Food & Nutrition

One On One

Our mission is to affirm the dignity and self-reliance of underserved individuals and their families through meaningful employment.

Public Benefit

Next Step Ministries Inc

Next Step Ministries, Inc. serves families in Cherokee, Cobb and Fulton counties of Georgia by providing therapeutic day programs for individuals with special needs in a Christian environment.

Human Services

Accessible Aba Inc

Our mission is to help children with autism and thier families reach their full potential by providing access to vital strategies of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to those who cant (or prefer not to) access them through traditional…

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Advance Memphis

To empower adults in south memphis to break cycles of unemployment, establish economic stability, reconcile relationships, and restore dignity through knowledge, resources, and skills by the power of jesus christ

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House 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 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/26

the rest of the field

13%

1,912/14,699

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.

05the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

17/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$183,908Health$93,750Human 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

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 Foundation of GreaterAL27.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater · Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment 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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THRIVE ADA SERVICES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 832507549 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THRIVE ADA SERVICES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Phyllis Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Phyllis Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE PHYLLIS FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Phyllis Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE PHYLLIS FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Phyllis Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph