· Private foundation
Marilyn and Saul Spilke Foundation Co Ken Spilke
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of MARILYN AND SAUL SPILKE FOUNDATION CO KEN SPILKE’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NSWAS | $7,000 |
| CASCADE PBS | $6,000 |
| WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| STANWOOD CAMANO FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| PEOPLE'S PLACE | $3,000 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD CO | $3,000 |
| THE MASORTI FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF DUTCHESS C | $3,000 |
| STANWOOD CAMANO ART ADVOCACY | $3,000 |
| PATHWAYS TO APPRENTICESHIP INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- MFMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC6× · 2017–2023 · $53k · revenue +106%
- HIHIAS INC3× · 2018–2021 · $35k · revenue +180%
- TLThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +374%
Funded once
- FTFUND TEXAS CHOICEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue ×14
- GFGREYSTON FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -71%
- FOFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVAone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -62%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
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.
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,…
The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…
Lia is a business membership group that supports economic development on long island.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The News Literacy Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wilton Rocks for Food. 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 42 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 43 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 MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO APPRENTICESHIP INC ↗
- Who funds STANWOOD-CAMANO FOOD BANK SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FUND TEXAS CHOICE ↗
- Who funds GIDEONS PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds GREYSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON ROCKS FOR FOOD ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSTON SELF-HELP CENTER INC PEOPLES PLACE ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS COALITION FOR REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF DUTCHESS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTSTEPS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMANO ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Mbia Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Marilyn and Saul Spilke Foundation Co Ken Spilke 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Friends of Ambler Farm Inc — 7% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Wilton Library Association Inc — 0% 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.