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The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
520
Grants FY2024
537
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$8,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$41,000
Organizations funded a year
436 to 581
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
25
Total assets, FY2024
$42M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
EnvironmentOther
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 arriving520$5.1M34%
FY2023537$4.6M31%
FY2022534$4.2M32%
FY2021581$5.9M31%
FY2020498$3.2M38%
FY2019466$3.5M37%
FY2018436$3.4M33%
FY2017444$3.2Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$33MEnvironment$37kReligion$26k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jackson's Eastside Walk Foundation$36,500260%
John Street Baptist Church$26,0002n/a

Plus 1,648 recipients with no EIN on record ($33M), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc

How much does The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc give?
The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc reported 520 grants totaling $5,113,260 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 436 and 581 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%), Environment (0%), Religion (0%).
Who are The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jackson's Eastside Walk Foundation ($37k), John Street Baptist Church ($26k).
Does The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc based?
The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc is based in MA.

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 1650 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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