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Alexander C & Tillie S Speyer Foundation at a glance

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Alexander C & Tillie S Speyer Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$314k
Granted FY2021
77
Grants FY2021
14
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$197kPhilanthropy$127kEnvironment$91kEducation$76kRecreation & Sports$55kYouth Development$29kHuman Services$22kHealth$18kOther$0
02FY2021 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k67 grants · $143k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $171k
$2,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AWARE$35,000
PRATT INSTITUTE$25,000
SITE SANTA FE$20,500
CITY KID'S WILDERNESS PROJECT$20,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE$16,000
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS$12,000
SANTE FE BOTANICAL GARDEN$11,000
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY$11,000
PEGASUS INSTITUTE$10,000
PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY$10,000
GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE$7,500
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ANNUAL FUND$7,500
ARCHIE BRAY FOUNDATION$6,000
MYRNA LOY CENTER$6,000
PRICKLEY PEAR LAND TRUST$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ONE 22 RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 5%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $250 → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $250 → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $250 → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $250 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
MO
KY
VA
MD
NM
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$497k · 62 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
28

Total granted

$497k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+23%

Still filing today

68%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionHealthAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PI
    PRATT INSTITUTE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +28%
  • SS
    SITE SANTA FE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $41k · revenue +289%
  • CK
    City Kids to Wilderness Project Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $22k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • OI
    One22 Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -41%
  • PB
    PITTSBURGH BOTANIC GARDENS
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • AC
    ALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -14%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
4
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
5
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
6
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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7
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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8
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment
9
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
10
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…

Animals
11
Heckscher Museum

Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Northwest Art

The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Garden Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Beaverhead Trails Coalition. 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

72 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. 72 of the 106 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/72
Grantees still filing
55/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AWARE: $75,000 · OtherAWAREWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ANNUAL FUND: $15,000 · OtherPRICKLEY PEAR LAND TRUST: $12,000 · OtherPITTSBURGH BOTANIC GARDENS: $12,000 · OtherCARNEGIE MUSEUMS: $12,000 · OtherOne22 Inc: $20,000 · OtherOne22 Inc+58 more: $172,533 · Other+58 moreSITE SANTA FE: $40,500 · Arts & CultureSITE SANTA FETHE MYRNA LOY: $12,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MYRNA LOYAVALON THEATRE PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAVALON THEATRE PROJ…MISSOULA ART MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMISSOULA ART MUSEUMPROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC: $8,000 · Arts & CulturePROVINCETOWN ART AS…BLUES ALLEY JAZZ SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHOLTER MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $18,622 · Arts & Culture+12 moreWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $21,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN PEN…SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN: $21,000 · EnvironmentSANTA FE BO…Beaverhead Trails Coalition: $10,000 · EnvironmentBeaverhead …Montana Environmental Information Center: $10,000 · EnvironmentMontana Env…BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $4,000 · EnvironmentBROOKLYN BO…+4 more: $4,000 · Environment+4 morePRATT INSTITUTE: $50,000 · EducationPRATT INSTI…ARCHIE BRAY FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationARCHIE BRAY…WILD ROCKIES FIELD INSTITUTE INC: $3,600 · Education+3 more: $3,500 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $31,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsGLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC: $15,500 · Recreation & SportsCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc: $21,536 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $1,036 · Youth Development
Other$318,533Arts & Culture$113,122Environment$70,000Education$69,100Philanthropy$36,000Recreation & Sports$35,500Youth Development$25,072

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSITE SANTA FE: $40,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc: $21,536 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN: $21,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOne22 Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MYRNA LOY: $12,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetARCHIE BRAY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAVALON THEATRE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMISSOULA ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBeaverhead Trails Coalition: $10,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetMontana Environmental Information Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBLUES ALLEY JAZZ SOCIETY: $5,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetHOLTER MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILD ROCKIES FIELD INSTITUTE INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS ON DEVE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHELENA FOOD SHARE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCURRAN SEELEY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUST: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDC PRESERVATION LEAGUE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOME COUNTY ANIMAL CARE COUNCILINC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL VOICE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Defiant Requiem Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $1,036 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Speyer Family Foundat…Montana Community Fou…First Interstate Banc…Clark-Winchcole Found…The Morris and Gwendo…M J Murdock Charitabl…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Helena Area Community…Treacy FoundationCommunity Foundation …Greater Washington Co…Impactassetsinc
Speyer Family FoundationPA82.9× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Speyer Family Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Helena Area Community Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alexander C & Tillie S Speyer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alexander C & Tillie S Speyer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Outer Cape Health Services Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Sea Education Association Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Alexander C & Tillie S Speyer 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 106 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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