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A J Spiegel Foundation

$8k
Granted FY2018
15
Grants FY2018
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172018.

Community Improvement$8kHealth$5kEmployment$2kCivil Rights$1kEducation$1kYouth Development$600Arts & Culture$550International$400Other$0
02FY2018 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$200
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Friends of Soroka Medical$1,800
Alpha Workshops$1,500
Helen Keller Services$1,350
STRIVE$600
Nontraditional Employment for Women$600
Ronald McDonald House NY$350
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc$250
Planned Parenthood Federation of Am$200
Women for Women International$200
Naral Pro-Choice America Foundation$200
Doctors Without Borders USA Inc$200
Asia Society and Museum$125
Whitney Museum of American Art$100
Dorot Inc$100
Friends of the High Line Inc$75
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Helen Keller Services: $1k → 20%Women's eNews: $295 → 17%Dorot Inc: $100 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12k · 3 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$12k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+133%

Still filing today

67%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18
EmploymentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TA
    THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue -56%
  • AF
    American Friends of Soroka Medical
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k
  • NE
    NONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +608%
  • CM
    CREATIVE MINDS INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $789 · revenue +133%
  • TQ
    THE QUAD PREPARATORY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +668%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Workforce Professionals Training Institute

Wpti's mission is to build the capacities of people, programs, and organizations that provide job training, placement, and career guidance for individuals and to advocate for policies that promote economic opportunities for all.

Employment
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
4
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
5
Women in Cable Telecommunications

The wict network develops women leaders who transform our industry.

Community Improvement
6
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
7
Womens Campaign International

Women's campaign international (wci) empowers girls and women around the world to actively participate and fill leadership roles in the economy, community development, civil society, and pacebuilding efforts.

International
8
The Conversationalist
9
International Youth Foundation

Iyf is a global ngo that prepares young people to be healthy, productive and engaged citizens.

International
10
Women Achieving Success
Employment
11
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

12
The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ms Foundation for Women Inc and the most unlike its peers is Creative Minds International Public Charter School. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC — $7,500 · EmploymentTHE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INCNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN — $1,200 · EmploymentNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMENSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC — $300 · EmploymentAmerican Friends of Soroka Medical — $3,360 · OtherAmerican Friends of Soroka Medi…STRIVE — $600 · OtherSTRIVEIndividual grant recipient — $395 · OtherIndividual grant recipientREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $200 · OtherWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $200 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $200 · Other+4 more — $430 · Other+4 moreHelen Keller Services — $1,350 · Human ServicesHelen Kell…WOMEN'S E-NEWS — $295 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S E-…DOROT INC — $100 · Human ServicesDOROT INCCREATIVE MINDS INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $789 · EducationTHE QUAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $500 · Education+1 more — $30 · EducationMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $1,250 · Civil RightsRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC — $350 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $200 · HealthMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $250 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $100 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $75 · Arts & Culture
Employment$9,000Other$5,385Human Services$1,745Education$1,319Civil Rights$1,250Health$550Arts & Culture$425

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHelen Keller Services — $1,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE MINDS INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $789 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRIVE — $600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE QUAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S E-NEWS — $295 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC — $80 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization A J Spiegel Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to A J Spiegel Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to A J Spiegel Foundation 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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