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Thomas E & Marcia W Philips Family Foundation at a glance

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Thomas E & Marcia W Philips Family Foundation

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.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$59kHealth$43kRecreation & Sports$41kEducation$5kAnimals$2kYouth Development$2kHuman Services$850Housing & Shelter$750Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ALEXANDRIA VA$1,500
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$1,000
MARKEIM ART CENTER$1,000
WASHINGTON TENNIS AND EDUCTION FOUN$1,000
ALICE'S KIDS$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $250 → 14%HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $100 → 14%GUADALUPE CENTER: $100 → 10%YOUTH HAVEN: $250 → 10%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

MN
IL
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
VA
MD
TN
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$133k · 14 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
34

Total granted

$133k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+0%

Still filing today

64%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • Northwestern University
    3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +41%
  • NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue ×152,034
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • PA
    PARKINSON'S ASSOCIATION OF SW FLORI
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • CC
    CASA Charter School Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -24%
  • LT
    LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
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
6
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
7
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
8
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
11
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
12
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nch Healthcare System Inc; the most unlike its peers is Haddonfield Friends of the Library. 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

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 54 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
15/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM: $34,575 · Arts & CultureSUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUMARTIS-NAPLES INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES INC+4 more: $3,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreNorthwestern University: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsHOLOCAUST MUSEUM OF NAPLES: $10,100 · OtherHOLOCAUST MUSEUM OF NAPLE…NAPLES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $6,500 · OtherNAPLES HOLOCAUST MUSEUMPARKINSON'S ASSOCIATION OF SW FLORI: $6,000 · OtherPARKINSON'S ASSOCIATION O…MT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $2,000 · OtherMT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEMANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ALEXANDRIA VA: $1,500 · OtherART ASSOCIATION OF HARRISBURG: $1,300 · Other+25 more: $8,045 · Other+25 moreNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $15,100 · HealthNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $15,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $2,750 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC+3 more: $200 · HealthAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $500 · EducationUniversity of Dayton: $500 · EducationSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $250 · EducationAlices Kids Inc: $500 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF DAYTON INC: $350 · Human ServicesYOUTH HAVEN INC: $250 · Human ServicesGuadalupe Center Inc: $100 · Human ServicesNOVA UKRAINE: $500 · International
Arts & Culture$41,075Recreation & Sports$41,000Other$35,445Health$33,050Education$3,250Human Services$1,200International$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwestern University: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM: $34,575 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $15,100 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetART ASSOCIATION OF HARRISBURG: $1,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASA Charter School Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARKEIM ARTS CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHADDONFIELD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: $1,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlices Kids Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF DAYTON INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCULTURAL ENRICHMENT FUND: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Foundation for En…McCormick Family Fdn …United Way of the Cap…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · United Way of the Capital Region · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thomas E & Marcia W Philips Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas E & Marcia W Philips Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 54 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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