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Ann Katherine Spear Humanitarian Fdn at a glance

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Ann Katherine Spear Humanitarian Fdn

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.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$170kHuman Services$147kHousing & Shelter$44kFood & Nutrition$35kPhilanthropy$29kReligion$20k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIA LIONS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION INC$15,000
MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC$15,000
THE SALVATION ARMY METRO ATLANTA$10,000
AGAPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA INC$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KOREAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%RESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON: $4k → 12%SENIOR CITIZENS INCORPORATED: $20k → 16%THE PLACE: $4k → 9%MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $10k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA INC: $5k → 13%MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $15k → 13%MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $10k → 13%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$312k · 9 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$312k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+24%

Still filing today

89%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CN
    CANCER NAVIGATORS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +63%
  • FO
    FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +203%
  • MP
    MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE
    4× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZENS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +24%
  • NP
    NEHEMIAH PROJECT COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • KA
    KOREAN AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -2%
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
LeadingAge Georgia Inc

The statewide association of not-for-profit and other mission-driven organizations dedicated to providing quality housing, health care, community based and other related services for older Georgians. The mission of the association is to…

Education
2
Meals On Wheels of Middle Georgia Inc

To support senior independence through meals, shelter, education, and community.

Human Services
3
CaringWorks Inc

Caringworks' mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the marginalized by providing access to housing and services that foster dignity, self-sufficieny & well-being.

Human Services
4
Ag Rhodes Health & Rehab Cobb

The mission of A.G. Rhodes Health & Rehab - Cobb is to provide the highest possible standard of quality care to our elderly residents while preserving their dignity, independence, and quality of life. We commit ourselves to care for all…

Health
5
Ageguide Northeastern Illinois Area On Aging

We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.

Food & Nutrition
6
Athens Community Council On Aging Inc

The mission of the athens community council on aging is to promote a lifetime of wellness through engagement, advocacy, education, and support.

Human Services
7
Lower Chattahoochee Direct Service

The organization provides meals for elderly and disadvantaged individuals.

Human Services
8
Senior Connections Inc

To provide essential home and community-based care that maximizes independence

—
9
Macon Volunteer Clinic Inc

Macon Volunteer Clinic (MVC)provides free primary medical and dental care, as well as medication assistance, to uninsured, working adult residents of Middle Georgia. All patients live at or below 200% of federal poverty level.

Health
10
Medlink Georgia Inc

To partner with patients and communities to support wellness through compassionate, quality healthcare.

—
11
Walton County Senior Citizens Council

Aging services contractor

Human Services
12
Ag Rhodes Health & Rehab Wesley Woods

The mission of A.G. Rhodes Health and Rehab Wesley Woods is to provide the highest possible standard of quality care to our elderly residents while preserving their dignity, independence and quality of life. We commit ourselves to care for…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Citizens Inc; the most unlike its peers is Westside Pacific Villages. 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

19 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. 19 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CANCER NAVIGATORS INC: $50,000 · HealthCANCER NAVIGATORS INCFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC: $45,000 · HealthFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INCALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY: $35,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTYCLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $30,000 · HealthCLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER+1 more: $5,000 · HealthMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $40,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE SEATTLEMIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INCSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INCKOREAN AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesKOREAN AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIA…WESTSIDE PACIFIC VILLAGES: $10,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE PACIFIC VILLAGESMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Place: $4,000 · Human ServicesRESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON: $4,000 · Human ServicesQUALITY LIVING SVCS FOR SENIORS: $36,800 · OtherQUALITY LIVING SVCS FOR …DIABETES ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA INC: $21,000 · OtherDIABETES ASSOCIATION OF …NEHEMIAH PROJECT COMMUNITY: $20,000 · OtherNEHEMIAH PROJECT COMMUNI…ADULT DAY TIME HEALTH SENIOR CITIZENS: $10,000 · OtherADULT DAY TIME HEALTH SE…THE SALVATION ARMY METRO ATLANTA: $10,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY METRO…THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $29,200 · PhilanthropyGeorgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc: $15,000 · EducationAgape Community Center: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsQuality Living Services Inc: $7,500 · Food & NutritionNORTHWEST GEORGIA HUNGER MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$165,000Human Services$118,000Other$97,800Philanthropy$29,200Education$15,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Food & Nutrition$9,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCANCER NAVIGATORS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $29,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDIABETES ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA INC: $21,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGeorgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAgape Community Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTSIDE PACIFIC VILLAGES: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetQuality Living Services Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetATLANTA CANCER CARE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Place: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON: $4,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHWEST GEORGIA HUNGER MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Georgia Power Foundat…The Community Foundat…Tr Uw Charles I BrananUnited Way of Greater…Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Ma…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainTuw Thomas H PittsKaiser Foundation Hea…The Imlay Foundation …Assurant FoundationThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Georgia Power Foundation IncGA23.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgiainc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Assurant Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Katherine Spear Humanitarian Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ann Katherine Spear Humanitarian Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    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 23 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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