· Private foundation
Nathan Speare Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 39 grants below total $168,436 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $194,936 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CCSA Foundation | $35,000 |
| Foundation for Delaware County | $25,000 |
| Notre Dame de Lourdes Catholic School | $20,000 |
| Pennsylvania State University | $8,000 |
| J. Wood Platt Scholarship Trust | $5,000 |
| Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine | $5,000 |
| Washington & Lee University | $5,000 |
| Drexel Neumann Academy | $5,000 |
| Community Arts Center | $5,000 |
| University of South Carolina | $4,500 |
| University of Alabama | $4,000 |
| Hunter College | $3,000 |
| Delaware County Community College | $2,500 |
| Colombia Lacrosse Association | $2,500 |
| Tee It Up for the Troops | $2,500 |
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 +24% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- CFCCSA FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $68k · revenue -4%
- CACOMMUNITY ARTS CENTER2× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +67%
- DNDREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY INC2× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- CFCenter for Resolutionsone grant, 2022 · $10k
- FSFAMILY SUPPORT LINE OF DELAWARE COUNTY INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +22%
- BMBRYN MAWR COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -3%
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.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…
Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immaculata University and the most unlike its peers is Life University Inc. 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 49 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 9% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 44 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 CCSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds DREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT LINE OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEDIA FELLOWSHIP HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LYCOMING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Marywood University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
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: Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw · Foundation for Delaware County · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Independence Blue Cross Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable 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.
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