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Sara D and J Kyle Spencer Eleemosynary Trust Inc

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.

$181k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of SARA D AND J KYLE SPENCER ELEEMOSYNARY TRUST INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
$60,457
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHATAHOOCHEE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUND$60,458
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$60,457
THE FRONT PORCH$30,457
THE MUSIC RESOURCE CENTER$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COVENANT HOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 17%YMCA OF METRO ATLANTA: $25k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$836k · 9 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$836k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+22%

Still filing today

44%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • BS
    BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2023 · $116k · revenue +27%
  • TS
    THE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $47k · revenue +36%
  • FT
    Feeding the Valley Inc
    3× · 2020–2023 · $45k · revenue +251%

Funded once

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361)
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +17%
  • MC
    MAYO CLINIC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +46%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
2
Berkeley Food Network

The berkeley food network (bfn) works to expand food assistance services to food-insecure berkeley residents. bfn was founded in 2016 to help establish a foundation of good health from which all berkeley residents can pursue opportunity by…

Food & Nutrition
3
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
4
Food Bank of the Albemarle

To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.

Food & Nutrition
5
Vermont Foodbank

To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.

Food & Nutrition
6
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
7
Brazos Valley Food Bank Inc

Cultivate an environment where our community can grow, contribute and thrive together. a more resilient brazos valley where nutritious food and opportunity are attainable for all.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

9
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc

The food bank of western massachusetts' mission is to feed our neighbors in need and lead the community to end hunger. the food bank provides food both directly and through its member food pantries, meal sites, shelters and other social…

10
Chester County Food Bank

We mobilize and educate our community to ensure equitable access to nutritious and familiar food. we do this by raising, and soliciting funds for the acquisition, storage, growing, collection and distribution of food to low income citizens…

Food & Nutrition
11
Covenant House Georgia Inc

Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.

12
City Harvest Inc

To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Stewart Community Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding the Valley Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY — $338,823 · OtherCOLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITYCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $113,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTHE FRONT PORCH — $70,457 · OtherTHE FRONT PORCHCHATAHOOCHEE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUND — $60,458 · OtherCHATAHOOCHEE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDFIDELITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $60,457 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONTHE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC — $47,000 · OtherTHE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INCCHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $36,000 · OtherTHE MUSIC RESOURCE CENTER — $35,000 · Other+2 more — $30,000 · OtherBROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC — $115,788 · EducationBROOKSTONE SCHO…THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY …COVENANT HOUSE — $35,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361) — $25,000 · Human ServicesColumbus Alliance for Battered Women Inc dba Hope Harbour — $4,244 · Human ServicesFeeding the Valley Inc — $45,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$791,195Education$140,788Human Services$64,244Food & Nutrition$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC — $115,788 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC — $47,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetFeeding the Valley Inc — $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361) — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbus Alliance for Battered Women Inc dba Hope Harbour — $4,244 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds THE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC
  • Who funds Feeding the Valley Inc
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361)
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds Columbus Alliance for Battered Women Inc dba Hope Harbour

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.

Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation IncGA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Sara D and J Kyle Spencer Eleemosynary Trust Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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