· Private foundation
Sam Spiegel Foundation Inc % David N Bottoms Jr
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $75,000 |
| RENA'S PROMISE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CSU FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE LITTLE OPERA THEATRE OF NY | $6,000 |
| CONGREGATION RODEPH SHALOM | $5,000 |
| CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES | $2,000 |
| ANCRAM OPERA HOUSE | $2,000 |
| WATERORG | $2,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $2,000 |
| BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY | $2,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,000 |
| WMHT - FM | $1,000 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN | $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 (FY17–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% 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.
39 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA6× · 2017–2023 · $417k · revenue +165%
- TATHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC5× · 2018–2023 · $370k · revenue +12%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc5× · 2018–2023 · $311k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIESone grant, 2017 · $100k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +281%
THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +132%
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 jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
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.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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,…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Physicians for Human Rights Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Aids Research. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 65 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 FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
- Who funds THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ENVISION OPELIKA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE PROFESSIONALS TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIFT OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE OPERA THEATER OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ANCRAM OPERA HOUSE THEATER INC ↗
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: The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Sam Spiegel Foundation Inc % David N Bottoms Jr 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.
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place 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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