Massachusetts · Nonprofit
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 284 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,282,211 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($24,722,299). 184 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 671 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $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.
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared funders
- Bryn Mawr Collegeportfolio match
- Cdvsj Foundationportfolio 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.
17% of TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 85 funders to 129 funders, grant income fell $11M → $11M.
52 of 284 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 284 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
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 53% · 2019 53% · 2020 44% · 2021 40% · 2022 25% · 2023 36% — diversifying over time.
“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
52% of TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
67% of TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $29M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 32 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 statesis 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 284 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared fundersNY · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- Bryn Mawr Collegeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cdvsj Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ogunlesi Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ellen Abbott Gilman Trust U/W 0732200portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Traquina Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cedar Street Foundation Jh1204portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 132 organizations that share your funders
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 198 organizations that share your funders
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Cornell Universityshared fundersNY · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- Kpmg US Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 97 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 TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$11k
- (TT) LOANS AND SPECIAL PAYMENTS$300
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 TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Institute for Recruitment of Teachers · exempt
- Charitable Trusts (33) · corp_trust
- Sof-Viii Investor IV · corp_trust
- Pooled Income Funds (2) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: 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 TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY?
- TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 284 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,282,211 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($24,722,299). 184 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 284 organizations giving $85,282,211 in grants to TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY, 184 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $24,722,299 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 284funders 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