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Human Spirit Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$699k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$352k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$948kInternational$873kArts & Culture$671kHuman Services$116kEnvironment$55kHealth$35kPhilanthropy$25kRecreation & Sports$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $281k
  • $250k+1 grant · $352k
$15,210
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RANDOM GOOD FOUNATION$351,960
FILMES ZANAHORIA LLC$195,900
Individual grant recipient$85,000
JIN SHIN GUILD INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$15,210
RESQCATS$10,000
FROM THE HEART FOUNDATION$10,000
TECHNOSERVE$5,000
KACS KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE$1,000
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 (FY17–25, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DOVETAIL LEARNING: $105k → 9%KACS KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $1k → 6%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
VA
DE
NM
KS
TX
FL

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 9 repeat orgs$680k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
22

Total granted

$2.1M
$362k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+45%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $317k 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
InternationalArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • RG
    Random Good Foundation Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $813k · revenue +2% · 76% of their budget
  • Cornell University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $547k · revenue +23%
  • TI
    TECHNOSERVE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • DL
    Dovetail Learning Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $105k · revenue -79%
  • PO
    PERSISTENCE OF VISION FILM CORP
    one grant, 2022 · $69k
  • SI
    SOUTHWEST INDIAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k

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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

3
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
4
Terraset

Terraset uses philanthropic capital to purchase permanent, high-quality carbon removal. we pool donations from individuals, foundations, family offices, and donor advised funds, and make strategic purchases of high-quality carbon removal…

Environment
5
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
6
NatureServe

NatureServe's mission is to leverage the power of science, data, and technology to guide biodiversity conservation and stewardship. We activate our mission by working with a network of 60+ partners located in states and provinces across…

Environment
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
10
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
11
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
12
Boston Medical Center Health Plan Inc

The corporation is organized and operates as a nonprofit corporation exclusively for the benefit of and to support boston medical center corporation and to provide access to effective, efficient medical care among low income, underserved,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Enfoque Ixcan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%39%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%2%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr16%49%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 39% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/23
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,542

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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 37 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Cornell University — $547,000 · EducationCornell UniversityPINE MANOR COLLEGE — $395,000 · EducationPINE MANOR COLLEGE+1 more — $5,000 · EducationRandom Good Foundation Inc — $812,904 · Arts & CultureRandom Good Foundation Inc+2 more — $20,000 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient — $201,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFILMES ZANAHORIA LLC — $195,900 · OtherFILMES ZANAHORIA LLCIndividual grant recipient — $85,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJIN SHIN GUILD INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION — $75,000 · OtherJIN SHIN GUILD INTERNATIONAL AS…PERSISTENCE OF VISION FILM CORP — $69,329 · OtherPERSISTENCE OF VISION FILM CORP+15 more — $148,210 · Other+15 moreDovetail Learning Inc — $104,650 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesTECHNOSERVE INC — $20,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International — $10,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 · InternationalENFOQUE IXCAN — $10,000 · InternationalTREES FOR LIFE INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentNatural Lands Trust Inc — $20,000 · EnvironmentTOGETHER WE RISE — $20,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $500 · Recreation & Sports
Education$947,000Arts & Culture$832,904Other$774,439Human Services$105,650International$60,000Environment$50,000Recreation & Sports$20,500

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 budgetRandom Good Foundation Inc — $812,904 over 2y, 76% of budgetCornell University — $547,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPINE MANOR COLLEGE — $395,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetDovetail Learning Inc — $104,650 over 1y, 11% of budgetTREES FOR LIFE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE STATE TROOPERS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMercy Ships International — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESQCATS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFruit Tree Planting Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENACITY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Human Spirit 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 41%
  • Delaware State Troopers Association41% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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