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Marc and Diane Spilker 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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Philanthropy$1.4MEducation$1.3MCivil Rights$655kArts & Culture$654kInternational$355kReligion$317kHealth$162kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $875k
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND$750,000
THIRD WAY INSTITUTE$200,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL- FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK$200,000
THE NEW 42ND STREET INC$125,000
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS AMERICAN SECTION INC$100,000
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$100,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$100,000
SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC$25,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC$25,000
GSD ADVISERS INC$25,000
YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC$2,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$1,500
THE FUND FOR PARK AVENUE$250
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RILEYS URGENT FUND FOR FRIENDS: $10k → 10%YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%GSD ADVISERS INC: $25k → 6%JEWISH CENTER OF THE HAMPTONS: $13k → 7%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $25k → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $25k → 11%CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $25k → 11%ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $750k → 23%YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%EAST HAMPTON FIRE DEPARTMENT: $250 → 7%UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $252k → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%PALM BEACH POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%SAY YES TO EDUCATION INC: $100k → 11%ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $125k → 23%YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%EAST HAMPTON FIRE DEPARTMENT: $250 → 7%UNITED JEWISH APPEAL- FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK: $200k → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 11%ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $125k → 23%SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $100k → 17%THIRD WAY INSTITUTE: $200k → 14%ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $100k → 23%SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 7%WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS AMERICAN SECTION INC: $100k → 17%THIRD WAY INSTITUTE: $200k → 14%HILLEL FOUNDATION OF NEW ORLEANS: $25k → 23%FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK: $60k → 17%THIRD WAY INSTITUTE: $200k → 14%HILLEL FOUNDATION OF NEW ORLEANS: $25k → 23%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $50k → 17%ROBERT F KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS: $30k → 14%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $4k → 17%ROBERT F KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS: $25k → 14%WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $250k → 17%THE HEWITT SCHOOL: $50k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $2k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $5k → 17%THE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL: $50k → 17%JAPAN SOCIETY INC: $20k → 17%GALIA UZIEL: $10k → 17%THE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $125k → 17%NEW 42ND STREET INC: $109k → 17%THE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $100k → 17%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

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NY
OH
CT
CA
DC
LA
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 10 repeat orgs$764k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$3.2M
$611k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
-6%

Still filing today

90%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyAnimalsCivil RightsOther

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

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +19%
  • TW
    THIRD WAY INSTITUTE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $600k · revenue +46%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $452k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • WT
    WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -37%
  • SY
    SAY YES TO EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -100%
  • FO
    FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2022 · $60k

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.

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Brown Hillel Foundation

Brown risd hillel encourages and supports a diversity of students as they explore, develop and deepen their jewish identities. we are committed to having judaism serve as a source of meaning and growth during their time on college hill and…

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2
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
3
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
4
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

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…

Philanthropy
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
9
Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc
Religion
10
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
11
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
12
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is East Hampton Fire Department Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …Independent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%64%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,536

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

27 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. 27 of the 32 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)
27/27
Grantees still filing
12/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $1,100,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE T…THE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL — $50,000 · Education+1 more — $25,000 · EducationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $762,719 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTME…THE NEW 42ND STREET INC — $334,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW 42ND ST…WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD TRADE CEN…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE — $600,000 · Civil RightsTHIRD WAY INS…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $451,950 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWIS…YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $70,000 · PhilanthropyYELLOWSTONE …JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE — $154,200 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUESAY YES TO EDUCATION INC — $100,000 · OtherSAY YES TO EDUCAT…FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK — $60,000 · OtherFEDERATION OF JEW…ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS — $55,000 · OtherROBERT F KENNEDY …HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $50,000 · OtherHILLEL THE FOUNDA…THE HEWITT SCHOOL — $50,000 · OtherTHE HEWITT SCHOOLTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · OtherTHE SOUTHAMPTON H…WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC — $100,000 · OtherWORLD JEWISH CONG…+8 more — $44,750 · Other+8 moreAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 · International+1 more — $5,000 · International
Education$1,175,000Community Improvement$762,719Arts & Culture$654,000Civil Rights$600,000Philanthropy$556,950Other$763,950International$355,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $1,100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $762,719 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE — $600,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $451,950 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC — $334,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAY YES TO EDUCATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS — $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HEWITT SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGSD Advisers Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAPAN SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC — $250 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundAmerican Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Combined Jewish Phila…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Marc and Diane Spilker 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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