· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $303k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RINGLING COLLEGE OF ARTDESIGN | $203,200 |
| MIT MUSIC BUILDING FUND (3709310) | $99,543 |
| RINGLING COLLEGE OF ARTDESIGN | $25,000 |
| MIT | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION SARASOTA MANATEE | $15,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITEE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH | $5,000 |
| RINGLING COLLEGE OF ARTDESIGN | $3,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND | $2,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH ELOHIM | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION5× · 2017–2021 · $292k · revenue +31%- RCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $256k · revenue +13%
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS8× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- M(MIT (METRO WAREHOUSE)one grant, 2021 · $200k
- M(MIT (INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTING)one grant, 2021 · $200k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds NORWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRESHMAN FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alan and Terri Spoon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alan and Terri Spoon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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