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Ann & Murray Spain Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$781kPhilanthropy$397kHuman Services$202kArts & Culture$180kHousing & Shelter$100kReligion$29kInternational$25kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$50,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$30,000
VBC GIVING FOUNDATION$20,000
THE WINWARD SCHOOL$7,500
TEMPLE HILLEL$5,000
TEMPLE HILLEL$5,000
LAURELLEN PRODUCTIONS$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$5,000
GIFT OF LIFE DONORS ARE HEROES$5,000
WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL$2,500
COLGATE UNIVERSITY$2,500
BREAKTHROUGHT1D$2,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 22%FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 22%FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 22%GERMANTOWN ACADEMY: $10k → 7%GERMANTOWN ACADEMY: $10k → 7%FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 22%GERMANTOWN ACADEMY: $10k → 7%GERMANTOWN ACADEMY: $10k → 7%FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 22%GERMANTOWN ACADEMY: $10k → 7%FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 22%FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 22%FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 22%FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 22%FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 22%KLEIN LIFE: $50k → 22%KLEIN LIFE: $50k → 22%KLEIN LIFE: $50k → 22%KLEIN LIFE: $50k → 22%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $120k → 22%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $77k → 22%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $60k → 22%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $58k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $10k → 22%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $10k → 22%THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $10k → 22%THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $10k → 22%THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $10k → 22%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30k → 22%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERISITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30k → 22%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30k → 22%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERISITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30k → 22%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30k → 22%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30k → 22%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30k → 22%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERISITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30k → 22%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERISITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30k → 22%VBC GIVING FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%VBC GIVING FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%VBC GIVING FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%VBC GIVING FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%VBC GIVING FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 18 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
4

Total granted

$1.1M
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+27%

Still filing today

78%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationReligionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TP
    THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN
    5× · 2018–2022 · $50k · revenue +28%
  • PH
    POLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +39%
  • THE WINDWARD SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • MT
    MOVING TRADITIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +27%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

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4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
6
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
7
B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation At Princeton

Cjl partners with students and other members of the princeton community to sustain and grow a welcoming, multi-faceted and pluralistic jewish community that is fully-integrated into the fabric of campus life and which provides personally…

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8
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…

Human Services
9
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
10
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
11
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
12
The Board of Jewish Education

To provide early childhood and jewish education to the community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

21 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. 21 of the 28 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $375,000 · OtherFOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TEMPLE UNIV…POLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA: $40,000 · OtherPOLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST…GIFT OF LIFE DONORS ARE HEROES: $35,000 · OtherGIFT OF LIFE DONORS ARE HEROESBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 · Other+11 more: $62,850 · Other+11 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $270,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY…THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN: $50,000 · EducationTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMA…THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $50,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTSTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $32,000 · EducationTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL+2 more: $13,500 · EducationJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $332,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GR…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PA…RAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE): $202,000 · Recreation & SportsRAYMOND AND M…PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureAUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureVETERAN'S VILLAGE INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · International
Other$532,850Education$415,500Philanthropy$357,000Recreation & Sports$202,000Arts & Culture$125,000Housing & Shelter$100,000International$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $332,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $270,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE): $202,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetVETERAN'S VILLAGE INC: $100,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPOLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $32,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTEMPLE HILLEL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds RAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE) ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERAN'S VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds POLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds THE WINDWARD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds TEMPLE HILLEL ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds LAURELLEN PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MOVING TRADITIONS ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGION ↗

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.

The Saramar Charitabl…Erlbaum Family Founda…Jewish Federation of …The Philadelphia Foun…Susanna Lachs and Dea…United Way of Greater…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Jewish Communal FundRenaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…
The Saramar Charitable FundPA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Saramar Charitable Fund · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · The Philadelphia Foundation · Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Ann & Murray Spain Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ann & Murray Spain Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 28 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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