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Alan and Terri Spoon Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$396k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$203,200
Organizations funded a year
8 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$4.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Alan and Terri Spoon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationCivil RightsInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$376k62%
FY20239$189k44%
FY20229$22k56%
FY202114$571k57%
FY20209$45k44%
FY20198$28k25%
FY20188$85k38%
FY20179$285kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.7MScience & Tech$569kArts & Culture$535kPhilanthropy$200kReligion$41kFood & Nutrition$17kCivil Rights$10kInternational$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
DC
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($833k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alan and Terri Spoon Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSmithsonian Institution: $291,697 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRingling College of Art and Design Inc: $256,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Fine Arts: $122,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNorwood School Inc: $25,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Lubavitch: $19,200 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDecordova and Dana Museum & Park: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Institute of New England Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFreshman Fresh Start Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetChildren's Guardian Fund: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIsrael Emergency Alliance: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpoonfuls: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil on Foreign Relations Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American India Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Belmont Golf Scholarship Fund Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMichigan Humane Society: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Club Preservation Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

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About Alan and Terri Spoon Family Foundation

How much does Alan and Terri Spoon Family Foundation give?
Alan and Terri Spoon Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $395,843 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Alan and Terri Spoon Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (64%), Science & Tech (14%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are Alan and Terri Spoon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Smithsonian Institution ($292k), Ringling College of Art and Design Inc ($256k), Museum of Fine Arts ($122k).
Does Alan and Terri Spoon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alan and Terri Spoon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alan and Terri Spoon Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Alan and Terri Spoon Family Foundation based?
Alan and Terri Spoon Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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