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Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$182k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 29
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$7.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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
FY2025still arriving16$182k50%
FY202413$21k38%
FY202315$150k47%
FY202213$240k31%
FY202113$100k46%
FY20209$107k33%
FY201929$575k59%
FY201723$270kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$593kYouth Development$510kHuman Services$266kCommunity Improvement$56kArts & Culture$42kHealth$29kPhilanthropy$19kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Urban Prep Academies$295,00041%
By The Hand Club For Kids$200,00041%
Target Hope$155,000513%
The Night Ministry$80,00020%
Noble Network of Charter Schools$45,00020%
The Bridge Teen Center Nfp$27,50031%
College Possible Inc$25,00010%
Foster Progress$20,32724%
One Family Illinois$20,0001n/a
Scripted Inc Dba Code Nation$20,00010%
Show all 37 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($610k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUrban Prep Academies: $295,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $200,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTarget Hope: $155,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetThe Night Ministry: $80,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNoble Network of Charter Schools: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bridge Teen Center Nfp: $27,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCollege Possible Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoster Progress: $20,327 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetScripted Inc Dba Code Nation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNew Leaders Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGulfshore Playhouse Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAlternatives Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGirls in the Game Nfp: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJoeys Food Fight: $5,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetNational Center for Family Philanthropy Inc: $4,980 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAngelman Syndrome Foundation Inc: $3,120 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMust: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLouis F Sinsheimer Elementary PTA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $677 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Autism Network: $518 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIllinois Police Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Illinois Food Bank: $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 24.

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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.

AbbVie FoundationIL19.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Invest for Kids Inc · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation

How much does Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation give?
Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $181,678 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Youth Development (31%), Human Services (16%).
Who are Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Urban Prep Academies ($295k), By The Hand Club For Kids ($200k), Target Hope ($155k).
Does Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Robert R McCormick Foundation, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
Where is Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation based?
Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation is based in CA.

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 74 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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