Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 173 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,665,963 to it, the largest being Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc ($2,468,890). 101 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 501 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 501 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- World Bank Community Connections Fundshared funders
- The Leads Foundationportfolio match
- The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 10% · 2021 13% · 2022 15% · 2023 11% · 2024 5% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 49 funders to 75 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $2.9M.
26 of 173 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 173 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
30% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 19% · 2019 32% · 2020 33% · 2021 18% · 2022 22% · 2023 19% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
48% of THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 173 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- World Bank Community Connections Fundshared fundersDC · backs 71 organizations that share your funders
- The Leads Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Coby Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Netherland-America Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alex Katz Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Locks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Canadian American Relations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyeth Foundation for American Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
- Venable Foundation Incshared fundersMD · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 71 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$484k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$476k
- National Endowment for the Arts$160k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION?
- THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 173 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,665,963 to it, the largest being Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc ($2,468,890). 101 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION have?
- IRS filings report 173 organizations giving $20,665,963 in grants to THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION, 101 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION?
- Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,468,890 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 173funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing