· Private foundation
Sanford and Gloria Spitzer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k22 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $123k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROWN CENTER - MEALS ON WHEELS | $50,000 |
| B'NAI AMOONA CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $30,000 |
| COVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MIRIAM FOUNDATION - STL CAPITAL FUN | $25,000 |
| BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $10,000 |
| LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER CULTURAL AR | $8,700 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST LOUIS | $8,000 |
| B'NAI AMOONA LIPNICK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - BUSINESS | $2,500 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - ELIOT SOCIE | $2,500 |
| SHAVING ISRAEL | $1,550 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| GATEWAY TO HOPE | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 24 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
- LFLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC5× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +149%
- SMSAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +0%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL3× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- MBMO BAPTIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION - OCCUPATIONAL THERAPYone grant, 2017 · $25k
- BHBJC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION - EVELYN HOUSEone grant, 2018 · $25k
- BHBJC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
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To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.
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Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
To eliminate underlying causes of health inequities, transform systems and enable individuals and communities to thrive
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To enhance the quality of life for the people of the siouxland region by obtaining funds in support of the health-care mission of st. luke's health system.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Shaving Israel. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 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 LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of St Louis ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds COVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY TO HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT ↗
- Who funds SHAVING ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
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: Milford & Lee Bohm Charitable Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of St Louis · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Chod Family Foundation · Gallop Family Foundation · The Patriot Foundation · Staenberg Family Foundation · The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital · Millstone Foundation · Centene 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 Sanford and Gloria Spitzer Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.