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Degna Spoldi Private Family 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.

$185k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
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 2024.

Health$498kEducation$290kFood & Nutrition$104kEnvironment$69kCommunity Improvement$69kPhilanthropy$50kRecreation & Sports$48kHuman Services$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST TEE OF NAPLESCOLLIE$50,000
OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION$50,000
CHAIN FOUNDATION$20,000
NAPLES GARDEN CLUB$19,000
THE LEAGUE CLUB$15,000
SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN$11,000
EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER$10,000
WINDWARD SCHOOL$5,000
METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $11k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $5k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $5k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $5k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $5k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $5k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $5k → 10%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $4k → 17%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $5k → 10%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

WA
MI
NY
MA
OH
CT
VA
MD
DE
DC
OK
TX
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 22 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
25

Total granted

$1.2M
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
0%

Still filing today

59%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
EnvironmentHealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • OI
    OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +42%
  • MC
    Marietta College
    3× · 2017–2022 · $176k · revenue +34%
  • TL
    The League Club Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • PC
    PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE TOWN OF RYE
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARKINSON FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • JF
    JEWISH FOUNDATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
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
2
New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

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3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…

Environment
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
7
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
8
National Tropical Botanical Garden

To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.

Environment
9
Greenwich Country Club

To maintain a clubhouse and golf grounds to cultivate a social spirit among its members to provide them with lawful recreation to do generally whatever may serve for the advancement, benefit, diversion or pleasure of the members.

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10
New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc

The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.

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11
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
12
The North Shore Land Alliance Inc

To conserve and steward long island's natural and historic lands, waters and environmental resources. through education, outreach and volunteerism, we connect people to nature and inspire a community conservation ethic.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc; the most unlike its peers is 13 Hands Equine Rescue Inc. 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

27 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. 27 of the 50 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The League Club Inc: $84,000 · OtherThe League Club IncNATIONAL EATING DISORDER ASSN: $60,000 · OtherNATIONAL EATING DISORDER ASSNTHE LITTLE GARDEN CLUB OF RYE INC: $60,000 · OtherTHE LITTLE GARDEN CLUB OF RYE INCFIRST TEE OF NAPLESCOLLIE: $50,000 · OtherFIRST TEE OF NAPLESCOLLIECHAIN FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherCHAIN FOUNDATIONMGA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherREVERSE THE COURSE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE TOWN OF RYE: $20,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Other+24 more: $178,500 · Other+24 moreOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION: $425,000 · HealthOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATIONSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 · HealthSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION+2 more: $15,000 · HealthMarietta College: $176,000 · EducationMarietta CollegeTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $68,000 · EducationTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL+2 more: $10,000 · EducationTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $40,000 · EnvironmentNAPLES GARDEN CLUB INC: $19,000 · EnvironmentNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $9,000 · EnvironmentWAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,250 · EnvironmentTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $46,210 · Human ServicesHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $3,500 · Human ServicesAMBER WAVES FARM INC: $34,000 · Food & NutritionSAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$552,500Health$465,000Education$254,000Environment$74,250Human Services$49,710Food & Nutrition$34,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION: $425,000 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetMarietta College: $176,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe League Club Inc: $84,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $68,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE GARDEN CLUB OF RYE INC: $60,000 over 8y, 78% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $46,210 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMBER WAVES FARM INC: $34,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE ROOTS FARM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget13 HANDS EQUINE RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCALVARY FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom Waters Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER GARDEN CLUB INC: $1,250 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPET RESCUE INCORPORATED: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Marietta College ↗
  • Who funds The League Club Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE WINDWARD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE LITTLE GARDEN CLUB OF RYE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds AMBER WAVES FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE ROOTS FARM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds 13 HANDS EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds CALVARY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Freedom Waters Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗

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.

American Express FoundationNY12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Express Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Degna Spoldi Private Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Degna Spoldi Private Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Native Roots Farm Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report 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, 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 50 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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