· Private foundation
Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL | $15,000 |
| PROPUBLICA | $13,000 |
| SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE | $12,000 |
| FWDUS EDUCATION FUND INC | $10,000 |
| GREAT BAY STEWARDS INC | $10,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE HUNGER SOLUTIONS INC | $10,000 |
| CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING INC | $10,000 |
| WINTER WALK INC | $10,000 |
| HEALING JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| GENERATION WE INC | $8,000 |
| NOURISH UP | $8,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER7× · 2018–2025 · $105k · revenue +24%
NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK4× · 2019–2023 · $57k · revenue +258%- TCTHE CARTER CENTER INC3× · 2017–2021 · $45k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NC SCHOOL OF THEone grant, 2021 · $35k
- FFFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INCone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -34%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
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 north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.
Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sanctuary for Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charlotte Film Society. 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 35 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 59 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 SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MECKLENBURG COUNTY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RYE NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE HUNGER SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Nest Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Gather ↗
- Who funds PINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RYE FREE READING ROOM ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Orchestras of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds West Blvd Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds FWDUS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Family Housing ↗
- Who funds MARCH ON MARYLAND ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Presbyterian Hospital · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · A Caring Community Inc · Albemarle Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The San Francisco 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 Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Archbold Expeditions Inc — 9% of income from government
- Year Up 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.
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