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The Rising Phoenix Foundation Inc

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.

$500k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$532kEducation$439kFood & Nutrition$307kHousing & Shelter$280kEnvironment$204kArts & Culture$50kYouth Development$44kAnimals$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $390k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$94k
Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 97% of reported assets are held in Berkshire Hathaway Inc Cl A 5 00.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$125,000
PROMISE INC$115,000
NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY$50,000
VERMONT FOODBANK$50,000
CAPITAL AREA FOODBANK$50,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE$20,000
CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION$10,000
MAXWELL JAMES OSKAM FOUNDATION$10,000
WOODSTOCK REGION JOURNALISM FOUNDATION$10,000
ARTISTREE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER$10,000
CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION - NORTHERN WOODLANDS$10,000
NATIVE PLANT TRUST$10,000
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY$10,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF BREVARD: $10k → 10%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $1k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%THOMPSON SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 9%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 32 repeat orgs$212k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
33

Total granted

$1.8M
$212k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+53%

Still filing today

72%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $370k · revenue +12%
  • VF
    VERMONT FOODBANK
    8× · 2017–2025 · $222k · revenue +50%
  • NW
    NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $209k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • Physicians Committee for Responsible Med
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +10%
  • TO
    TOWN OF WOODSTOCK
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • VS
    VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +59%

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
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

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
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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5
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
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
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
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

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
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Sculpture Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support OrganizationsFood Pantries & AssistanceUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Veteran Support ServicesFallen First Responder Supp…Community Arts OrganizationsYouth Development CentersSenior Support ServicesCommunity Health CentersPublic University Foundatio…Animal Rescue and AdoptionIndependent K-8 SchoolsGovernment Accountability R…Land Conservation Organizat…Christian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Public Library Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%45%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
3/50
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,515

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

47 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. 47 of the 66 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
40/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $370,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDAT…Physicians Committee for Responsible Med — $30,000 · HealthPhysicians Committee for …CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · HealthCELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATIONMAXWELL JAMES OSKAM FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · HealthMAXWELL JAMES OSKAM FOUND…+2 more — $7,250 · HealthInstitute for Humane Studies — $120,000 · OtherInstitute for Humane StudiesIndividual grant recipient — $80,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES — $50,000 · OtherTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIESTOWN OF WOODSTOCK — $30,000 · OtherTOWN OF WOODSTOCKARTISTREE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER — $20,000 · OtherIBD CONNECT INC — $20,000 · OtherCENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION - NORTHERN WOODLANDS — $20,000 · OtherLUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $20,000 · OtherVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC — $20,000 · OtherNO BAD DAYS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Other+33 more — $137,831 · Other+33 moreVERMONT FOODBANK — $222,000 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOODBANKCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $70,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOO…+1 more — $1,000 · Food & NutritionPROMISE INC — $280,000 · Housing & ShelterPROMISE INCNORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $208,965 · EducationNORMAN WILLIA…HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVE…CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $10,000 · Education+4 more — $8,400 · EducationVERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC — $168,000 · EnvironmentVERMONT INS…NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentNATIVE PLAN…+2 more — $5,250 · EnvironmentFOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS — $43,100 · Youth Development+1 more — $1,000 · Youth Development
Health$467,250Other$537,881Food & Nutrition$293,000Housing & Shelter$280,000Education$242,365Environment$203,250Youth Development$44,100

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 budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $370,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPROMISE INC — $280,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $222,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $208,965 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetVERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC — $168,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies — $120,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS — $43,100 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAXWELL JAMES OSKAM FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetWoodstock Region Journalism Foundation Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWoodstock Community Trust Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF BREVARD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI — $6,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK — $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY — $2,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOTTAUQUECHEE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCops Direct — $706 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited American Patriots Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoodstock Community Television — $250 over 1y, 0.2% 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 Vermont Community…McCollom Family Found…Kirby Family Foundati…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…The Lori K and Roland…William and Gayle Cho…New Hampshire Charita…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Raymond James Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT20.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · McCollom Family Foundation · Kirby Family Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Lori K and Roland F Pease Jr Foundation Inc · William and Gayle Chorske Family Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Rising Phoenix 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc — 51% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
  • Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Norman Williams Public Library Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Promise Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 66 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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