Phelps Stokes Fund

The Phelps Stokes Fund (PS) is a nonprofit fund established in 1911 by the will of New York philanthropist Caroline Phelps Stokes, a member of the Phelps Stokes family. Created as the Trustees of Phelps Stokes Fund, it connects emerging leaders and organizations in Africa and the Americas with resources to help them advance social and economic development.

Some organizations Phelps Stokes has influenced or supported the founding of are UNCF, the Booker Washington Agricultural and Industrial Institute (BWI), the American Indian College Fund, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, the Jackie Robinson Foundation, and the Association of Black American Ambassadors.

Phelps Stokes has contributed to education in the U.S. South and British colonial Africa.

The Phelps Stokes Fund may be no longer active or terminated. Either the organization has not filed a Form 990 in many years and appears to no longer be active, or they marked in their most recent Form 990 that they have closed down.

Work in the United States

Phelps Stokes has published studies on social issues. In the United States, it commissioned studies of black intellectual potential for college education at the University of Virginia and the University of Georgia. Phelps Stokes also supported the Jeanes Teachers Program, which became a model for education in the rural South.

Edward Berman writes that between 1911 and 1945, Phelps Stokes "played a role in American Negro and especially in African education disproportionate to the rather meagre financial resources it contributed directly to these endeavors between 1911, when it was incorporated, and 1945.