· Private foundation
Fred and Nancy Sperling 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Stark County Hunger Task Force | $15,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $15,000 |
| Salvation Army | $15,000 |
| Thompson Senior Center | $12,500 |
| Vermont Foodbank | $10,000 |
| The Peddie School | $2,500 |
| South Woodstock Fire Protection Assoc | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Green Mountain Horse Assoc | $1,000 |
| SAM Center | $1,000 |
| Lehigh University | $1,000 |
| Lucy Mckenzie Humane Society | $1,000 |
| Green Mountain Perkins Academy | $1,000 |
| Buckeye Council BSA | $350 |
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 (FY22–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- WAWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING4× · 2022–2025 · $46k · revenue +85%
- SCStark County Hunger Task Force Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +40%
- VFVERMONT FOODBANK3× · 2023–2025 · $17k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- SASalvation Army of Canton OHone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SASalvation Army of Canton Ohioone grant, 2023 · $10k
- LMLucy McKenzie Humane Societyone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Habitat for humanity of the lehigh valley, inc. engages in the construction, rehabilitation, critical home repair, and the sale of housing to economically disadvantaged people on a nonprofit basis in the lehigh valley area of pennsylvania.
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
To reduce the conditions of poverty by providing comprehensive services to improve lives.to accomplish the mission, hhwp cac will collect and analyze data on the nature of poverty and the existing resources in the area. hhwp cac will…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. maumee valley habitat for humanity adheres…
To function as a community-based land conservancy for the preservation of farmland and our agricultural heritages, as well as other open spaces, natural resources, wildlife habitats, and scenic features within bedminster township and other…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Benton habitat for humanity is a countywide ecumenical ministry that seeks to eliminate substandard housing and to make decent shelter a matter of action and conscience by having people from all income levels work together.
Golden harvest food bank, inc.'s mission is "feeding lives together."
Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.
Habitat for humanity of greater centre county works in partnership with god and our communities to build simple, decent, affordable houses for qualified families in need of adequate shelter.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity East Central Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Buckeye Council Boy Scouts of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 20 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 WOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds Stark County Hunger Task Force Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds The Peddie School ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKEYE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
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.
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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 Fred and Nancy Sperling 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% 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.