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The Rising Phoenix Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CAPITAL AREA FOODBANK$50,000
VERMONT FOODBANK$50,000
NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY$50,000
VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION$10,000
MAXWELL JAMES OSKAM FOUNDATION$10,000
NATIVE PLANT TRUST$10,000
ARTISTREE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER$10,000
CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION - NORTHERN WOODLANDS$10,000
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY$10,000
WOODSTOCK REGION JOURNALISM FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+46%

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
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.

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

  • TO
    TOWN OF WOODSTOCK
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • Physicians Committee for Responsible Med
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +10%
  • NB
    NO BAD DAYS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +11%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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)

—
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.

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
40/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $370,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDAT…MAXWELL JAMES OSKAM FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthMAXWELL JAMES OSKAM FOUND…Physicians Committee for Responsible Med: $30,000 · HealthPhysicians Committee for …CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthCELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION+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 · OtherNO BAD DAYS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetMAXWELL JAMES OSKAM FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWoodstock Region Journalism Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF BREVARD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetWoodstock Community Trust Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $6,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen: $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 budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,250 over 2y, 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 budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCops Direct: $706 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited American Patriots Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoodstock Community Television: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Rising Phoenix Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rising Phoenix Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 66 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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