· Private foundation
Florence and Laurence Spungen Family 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of FLORENCE AND LAURENCE SPUNGEN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $621k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK | $60,000 |
| LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAND IN HAND | $50,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH | $40,000 |
| CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $36,000 |
| JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| JOSSELYN | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| SHARSHERET | $25,000 |
| MINDING YOUR MIND | $25,000 |
| DIGNITY MOVES | $25,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| EQUAL HOPE (METRO CHICAGO BREAST TASK FORCE) | $25,000 |
| ISRAAID GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $273k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 38% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 35% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
56 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
- FOFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +5%
- MYMINDING YOUR MIND5× · 2020–2024 · $88k · revenue +38%
- FSFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY3× · 2020–2022 · $86k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- EHEqual Hope Metro Chicago Breast Tasone grant, 2022 · $25k
- FSFamily Service Agencyone grant, 2020 · $25k
- FSFamily Service of Santa Barbara Couone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.
Guided by jewish values and in collaboration with the diverse communities we serve, jfcs east bay contributes to the resilience of communities, families, and individuals through advocacy and comprehensive support services at every stage of…
Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Services and the most unlike its peers is Lauri S Bauer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 149 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 SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINDING YOUR MIND ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds CANDLES ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITYMOVES ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
- Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Urban Adamah ↗
- Who funds World Outside My Shoes ↗
- Who funds KAVOD ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine ↗
- Who funds Elyssas Mission NFP ↗
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Towbes Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc · James S Bower Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · California Community Foundation · Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
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 Florence and Laurence Spungen Family 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.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
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.
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