· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE HILLEL | $5,000 |
| LAURELLEN PRODUCTIONS | $5,000 |
| GIFT OF LIFE DONORS ARE HEROES | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE HILLEL | $5,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| BREAKTHROUGHT1D | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TPTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN5× · 2018–2022 · $50k · revenue +28%
- PHPOLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +39%
THE WINDWARD SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2020 · $5k
- MTMOVING TRADITIONSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +27%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
To provide early childhood and jewish education to the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- 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 COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LAURELLEN PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds MOVING TRADITIONS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ann & Murray Spain Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.