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Norman F Sprague Jr Foundation
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $399k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATE SCHOOL | $66,000 |
| HARVARD WESTLAKE SCHOOL | $64,333 |
| SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $40,000 |
| BANDON SCHOOL DISTRICT | $35,000 |
| GREAT BEGINNINGS MONTESSORY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LAS MADRINAS | $20,000 |
| GOOD NEIGHBORS FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,750 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| GABRIELLA CHARTER SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL | $13,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +9% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
CATE SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $404k · revenue +17%- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles4× · 2022–2025 · $154k · revenue +23%
THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER3× · 2023–2025 · $109k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- THTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +5%
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +1%- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -4%
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.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
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…
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
The waverly school is a nonsectarian, coeducational, college preparatory progressive day school that spans preschool through high school. it is fully accredited by the western association of school and colleges and the california…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.
The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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.
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 48 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 14% 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, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 70 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 CATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Harvey Mudd College ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds LAS MADRINAS ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT BEGINNINGS MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GABRIELLA CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Southern Coos Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Bandon Community Youth Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds CURRY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUR WINDS ↗
- Who funds THE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds St Anne School ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Caryll M & Norman F Sprague Jr Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Oregon Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Annenberg Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · United Way Worldwide · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Norman F Sprague Jr 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.
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Bandon Community Youth Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Great Beginnings Montessori School — 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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