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Anne Spychala Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Anne Spychala Family Charitable 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
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$359kHealth$197kArts & Culture$169kAnimals$94kEnvironment$51kReligion$33kScience & Tech$29kHuman Services$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
$3,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNC CHARLOTTE$20,500
ARTSQUEST$12,500
AADC$8,500
ARCS FOUNDATION INC$8,500
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$8,000
CALHOUN SCHOOL$7,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSP$7,000
RUTGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$7,000
UNC$5,000
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
CALHOUN SCHOOL$5,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$3,500
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$3,500
ASSOCIATE ALUMNAE DOUGLASS COLLEGE$3,500
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 (FY17–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PAWS4PEOPLE INC: $8k → 12%VOLUNTEER GUARDIANSHIP ONE ON ONE: $5k → 4%PAWS4PEOPLE INC: $6k → 12%VOLUNTEER GUARDIANSHIP ONE ON ONE: $2k → 4%PAWS4PEOPLE INC: $5k → 12%PAWS4PEOPLE INC: $5k → 12%VOLUNTEER GUARDIANSHIP ONE ON ONE: $1k → 4%PAWS4PEOPLE INC: $5k → 12%PAWS4PEOPLE INC: $5k → 12%PAWS4PEOPLE INC: $5k → 12%PAWS4PEOPLE INC: $3k → 12%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

AK
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$935k · 47 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
37

Total granted

$935k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+33%

Still filing today

55%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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
    PAWS4PEOPLE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +58%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    7× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +52%
  • A
    ARTSQUEST
    8× · 2018–2025 · $38k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • PA
    PA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • WA
    WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • PA
    PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue 0%
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
5
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
6
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
7
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…

Science & Tech
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
11
Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art

The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…

Arts & Culture
12
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Katmai Conservancy. 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

42 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. 42 of the 87 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
26/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AADC: $76,500 · OtherAADCUNIVERESITY OF NC AT CHARLOTTE: $45,500 · OtherUNIVERESITY OF NC AT CHARLOTTECHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY: $45,250 · OtherCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARYARCS FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 · OtherARCS FOUNDATION INCUNC CHARLOTTE: $40,000 · OtherUNC CHARLOTTEASSOCIATE ALUMNI DOUGLAS COLLEGE: $35,500 · OtherASSOCIATE ALUMNI DOUGLAS COLLEGEST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSP: $33,000 · OtherST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $21,000 · Other+47 more: $272,630 · Other+47 moreAmerican Museum of Natural History: $70,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum …ARTSQUEST: $37,500 · Arts & CultureARTSQUESTALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $12,000 · Arts & CultureALLENTOWN ART MU…STATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureCIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTOWN PA: $8,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT CHARLOTTE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $11,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreDREAM CHARTER SCHOOL: $28,000 · EducationDREAM CHA…RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $26,500 · EducationRUTGERS U…Associate Alumnae of Douglass College: $14,000 · EducationAssociate…THE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC: $12,000 · EducationTHE CALHO…CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationCLEMSON U…THE EQUITY PROJECT CHARTER SCHOOL: $3,000 · EducationPOCONO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER INC: $43,000 · Environment350ORG: $3,000 · EnvironmentKatmai Conservancy: $2,500 · EnvironmentWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentPAWS4PEOPLE INC: $41,500 · Human ServicesVOLUNTEER GUARDIANSHIP ONE-ON-ONE: $8,000 · Human ServicesWildlife Conservation Society: $41,000 · AnimalsWAG ON INN RESCUE: $4,750 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE: $15,000 · Health+2 more: $1,140 · HealthHARLEM RBI INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyFANS FOR THE CURE: $4,000 · PhilanthropyHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$611,880Arts & Culture$154,500Education$88,500Environment$50,500Human Services$49,500Animals$46,750Health$46,140Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $70,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPOCONO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER INC: $43,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetPAWS4PEOPLE INC: $41,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $41,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetARTSQUEST: $37,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDREAM CHARTER SCHOOL: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $26,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM RBI INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE: $15,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAssociate Alumnae of Douglass College: $14,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $12,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE FOLK SOCIETY: $11,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $9,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetSTATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTOWN PA: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEER GUARDIANSHIP ONE-ON-ONE: $8,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT CHARLOTTE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAG ON INN RESCUE: $4,750 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFANS FOR THE CURE: $4,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE EQUITY PROJECT CHARTER SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget350ORG: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKatmai Conservancy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Little Theatre of Charlotte Inc dba Theatre Charlotte: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOSS CREEK MARINES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPALMETTO PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWNET: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $640 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBread For The World Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Breast Friends Inc: $500 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.

  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds POCONO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWS4PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
  • Who funds ARTSQUEST ↗
  • Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM RBI INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE ↗
  • Who funds Associate Alumnae of Douglass College ↗
  • Who funds THE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE FOLK SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds STATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTOWN PA ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER GUARDIANSHIP ONE-ON-ONE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT CHARLOTTE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Ibm International Fou…Martin Guitar Charita…Air Products Foundati…Ppl FoundationEssa Bank & Trust Fou…John a and Margaret P…United Way of the Gre…Butz FoundationDexter F and Dorothy …Lutron FoundationJulius & Katheryn Hom…The Century Fund Trust
Ibm International FoundationNY20× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Butz Foundation · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation · Lutron Foundation · Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation · The Century Fund 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 Anne Spychala Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anne Spychala Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 87 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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