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Charles H and Mildred E Speece Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$320k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Food & Nutrition$355kEducation$288kHealth$250kArts & Culture$48kReligion$30kHousing & Shelter$30kHuman Services$30kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Share Food Program$50,000
Jenkintown Food Cupboard$50,000
Family Promise$30,000
St James School$30,000
Jenkintown Education Foundation$25,000
Abington Hospital$25,000
Upper Moreland Library$20,000
Jenkintown Library$20,000
Abington Library$20,000
Jenkintown High School Instrumental Music Dept$20,000
Upper Merion Community Cupboard$15,000
Settlement Music School$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%PHILLY HOUSE: $30k → 22%UPPER MERION COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $20k → 7%Upper Merion Community Cupboard: $15k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$810k · 14 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
6

Total granted

$810k
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+38%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

  • SF
    SHARE FOOD PROGRAM
    6× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +480%
  • AM
    ABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    3× · 2018–2023 · $125k · revenue +7%
  • CS
    CENTER SCHOOL
    2× · 2019–2023 · $38k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • AH
    ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +375%
  • JH
    JEFFERSON HEALTH-ABINGTON HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • SB
    SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
2
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
3
The Food Trust

The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Jefferson Health - Northeast

To provide exceptional patient care and customer service to members of the communities served by the hospitals, and to recognize a patient's right to considerate and respectful care, regardless of ability to pay. please refer to schedule o…

Health
5
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc

Thomas jefferson university hospitals, inc. ("tjuh") is dedicated to improving the health of the communities we serve. we are committed to: 1) setting the standard for excellence in the delivery of patient care, patient safety and the…

Health
6
Lansdale Hospital

The organization is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all by fostering healing, easing suffering, and promoting wellness in a culture of safety, learning and respect. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community…

Health
7
Chester County Food Bank

We mobilize and educate our community to ensure equitable access to nutritious and familiar food. we do this by raising, and soliciting funds for the acquisition, storage, growing, collection and distribution of food to low income citizens…

Food & Nutrition
8
Kennedy University Hospital Inc

To function as an academic medical center that provides the finest healthcare services with excellent outcomes to people living in our communities. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community benefit statement.

Health
9
Manna On Main Street

Manna on main street is committed to ending hunger in the north penn region by providing food, fulfilling social service and education needs, and conducting community outreach. through a food pantry and soup kitchen, emergency financial…

10
Manna Food Center Inc

Manna food center, inc strives to end hunger in our community through education, advocacy, and food distribution to individuals and partner agencies. manna's guiding principles are to be service-driven, community- centered and…

Food & Nutrition
11
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
12
The Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents

The magee memorial hospital for convalescents' mission is to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities by providing high quality physical and cognitive rehabilitation services. please refer to schedule o for the…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Share Food Program and the most unlike its peers is Jenkintown Education Foundation. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JAMES SCHOOL — $60,000 · OtherST JAMES SCHOOLJEFFERSON HEALTH-ABINGTON HOSPITAL — $50,000 · OtherJEFFERSON HEALTH-ABINGTON HOSPITALJenkintown Library — $40,000 · OtherJenkintown LibraryABINGTON LIBRARY — $40,000 · OtherABINGTON LIBRARYUpper Moreland Library — $40,000 · OtherUpper Moreland LibraryCENTER SCHOOL — $37,500 · OtherCENTER SCHOOLFamily Promise — $30,000 · OtherFamily PromiseAbington Hospital — $25,000 · OtherAbington HospitalJenkintown High School Instrumental Music Dept — $20,000 · OtherJENKINTOWN UNITED METHOD FOOD CUPBOARD — $20,000 · OtherJENKINTOWN METHODIST CHURCH — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherACTS MISSION FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $175,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD PROGRAMJenkintown Food Cupboard Inc — $115,000 · Food & NutritionJenkintown Food Cupboard IncHAT PACKS — $10,000 · Food & NutritionABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $125,000 · HealthABINGTON MEMORIAL …ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthABINGTON HEALTH FO…JENKINTOWN EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $70,000 · EducationUPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD — $35,000 · Human ServicesSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION — $30,000 · Human ServicesSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $27,500 · Arts & CultureMontgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — $10,000 · Animals
Other$407,500Food & Nutrition$300,000Health$175,000Education$70,000Human Services$65,000Arts & Culture$27,500Animals$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $175,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER SCHOOL — $37,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD — $35,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAT PACKS — $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMontgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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 SHARE FOOD PROGRAM
  • Who funds ABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
  • Who funds Jenkintown Food Cupboard Inc
  • Who funds JENKINTOWN EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CENTER SCHOOL
  • Who funds UPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD
  • Who funds SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION
  • Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds HAT PACKS
  • Who funds Montgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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.

Chubb Charitable FoundationPA14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chubb Charitable Foundation · Snave Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Charles H and Mildred E Speece 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Charles H and Mildred E Speece Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Charles H and Mildred E Speece 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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