How much does Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation give?

Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $37,275 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 81 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (48%), Philanthropy (15%), Education (15%).

Who are Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Hebrew Congregation ($105k), Jewish Community Center ($13k), Union for Reform Judaism ($3k).

Does Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edward Jones Foundation, Edward Jones Foundation, Centene Foundation.

Where is Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation based?

Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation is based in MO.

Foundation Dossiers

Missouri · Private foundation

Frank and Bessie Spielberg 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.

$37k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 60
Grants FY2025: 62
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $100
Largest grant, FY2025: $17,400
Organizations funded a year: 62 to 81; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 10
Total assets, FY2025: $340k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	59	$37k	0%
FY2024	62	$36k	0%
FY2023	63	$37k	0%
FY2022	69	$38k	0%
FY2021	78	$39k	1%
FY2020	81	$42k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$110kPhilanthropy$34kEducation$33kHuman Services$17kHealth$12kArts & Culture$7kAnimals$4kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
United Hebrew Congregation	$104,800	6	n/a
Jewish Community Center	$12,881	6	0%
Union for Reform Judaism	$2,600	6	n/a
Lung Cancer Connection	$1,209	5	0%
The Scholarship Foundation of St Louis	$1,200	6	0%
Humane Society of Missouri	$1,200	6	0%
Salvation Army	$1,000	5	n/a
Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees	$740	6	0%
National Yiddish Book Center Inc	$720	6	0%
Forest Park Forever Inc	$600	6	0%

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All grantees of Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
United Hebrew Congregation	$104,800	6	n/a
Jewish Community Center	$12,881	6	0%
Union for Reform Judaism	$2,600	6	n/a
Lung Cancer Connection	$1,209	5	0%
The Scholarship Foundation of St Louis	$1,200	6	0%
Humane Society of Missouri	$1,200	6	0%
Salvation Army	$1,000	5	n/a
Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees	$740	6	0%
National Yiddish Book Center Inc	$720	6	0%
Forest Park Forever Inc	$600	6	0%
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra	$600	6	0%
Keren or Inc	$600	6	0%
American Kidney Fund Inc	$600	6	0%
Operation Food Search Inc	$600	6	0%
Beverly Farm Foundation	$600	6	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$600	6	0%
St Louis Area Food Bank Inc	$600	6	0%
Masonic Home of Missouri	$600	6	0%
American Heart Association Inc	$600	6	0%
United Farm Workers of America	$600	6	0%
Miriam Foundation	$600	6	0%
Mental Health Association of St Louis	$600	6	0%
St Louis Peregrine Society Inc	$600	6	0%
Missouri Historical Society	$600	6	0%
Amvets National Service Foundation	$600	6	0%
Jewish Family Services of St Louis	$600	6	0%
Central Institute for the Deaf	$600	6	0%
American Jewish Historical Society	$600	6	0%
Epilepsy Foundation of America	$600	6	0%
Municipal Theatre Association of St Louis	$600	6	0%
American Printing House for the Blind Inc	$600	6	0%
American Jewish Committee	$600	6	0%
Cancer Support Community of Greater St Louis	$600	6	0%
American Institute for Cancer Research	$300	3	0%
American Diabetes Association	$300	3	0%
American Foundation for the Blind Inc	$300	3	0%
St Louis Public Library	$200	2	n/a
The Florida Aquarium Inc	$140	1	0%
Service Club for the Blind Inc	$100	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($87k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Edward Jones FoundationMO18.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edward Jones Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Jewish Federation of St Louis · World Wide Technology Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Sanford and Gloria Spitzer Family Foundation · Julian I & Hope R Edison Foundation Inc · Eidelman Family Foundation

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.

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About Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation

How much does Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation give?: Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $37,275 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 81 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (48%), Philanthropy (15%), Education (15%).
Who are Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Hebrew Congregation ($105k), Jewish Community Center ($13k), Union for Reform Judaism ($3k).
Does Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edward Jones Foundation, Edward Jones Foundation, Centene Foundation.
Where is Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation based?: Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundation is based in MO.