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Society of Plastics Engineers Inc

The society of plastics engineers (spe) supports people and companies in the plastics industry, by producing programs which facilitate the sharing of knowledge, the strengthening of skills and the promotion of the plastics industry worldwide. Spe serves plastics professionals from every segment of the industry, including engineers,…

$288k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Itemized grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
35%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$178k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$29,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
12
Total assets, FY2024
$7.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Society of Plastics Engineers Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$178k29%
FY202317$231k35%
FY202212$139k33%
FY202110$137k40%
FY20209$92k44%
FY201912$101k42%
FY201811$106k36%
FY201714$109kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$881kScience & Tech$161kYouth Development$45kEmployment$8kHealth$6k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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MA
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CO
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Western Washington University$108,6255n/a
Cape Cod Community College$86,7507n/a
New Paradigm for Education Inc$81,40030%
Pennsylvania State University$71,8707n/a
American International Academy$60,0002n/a
Pennsylvania College of Technology$54,4255n/a
Kettering University$44,25050%
Ferris State University$40,1504n/a
Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas$35,00020%
University of Akron Research Foundation$34,62540%
Show all 46 grantees
All grantees of Society of Plastics Engineers Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Western Washington University$108,6255n/a
Cape Cod Community College$86,7507n/a
New Paradigm for Education Inc$81,40030%
Pennsylvania State University$71,8707n/a
American International Academy$60,0002n/a
Pennsylvania College of Technology$54,4255n/a
Kettering University$44,25050%
Ferris State University$40,1504n/a
Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas$35,00020%
University of Akron Research Foundation$34,62540%
Shawnee State University$31,5004n/a
University of Wisconsin Madison$24,5003n/a
The University of Tennessee$24,5003n/a
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University$24,5003n/a
Michigan State University$24,2503n/a
University of Wisconsin$22,6503n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$22,5002n/a
McKinney Education Foundation$20,47012%
Trustees of Purdue University$20,0001n/a
Pittsburg State University$16,6253n/a
Lake Wales Charter Schools Inc$16,60010%
Case Western Reserve University$16,00020%
Schoolcraft College Foundation$15,85030%
Baylor University$14,75020%
Tejano Center$12,7502n/a
Penn State University$12,6251n/a
Lehigh University$12,00010%
University of Alabama at Birmingham$10,6252n/a
Georgia Institute of Technology$10,1251n/a
Uw-Stout Foundation and Alumni Association Inc$10,00010%
Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana$10,00010%
Texas Tech University System$9,5001n/a
Clemson University$9,5001n/a
Esf College Foundation Inc$9,30010%
Auburn University$8,0001n/a
Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College$8,0001n/a
Advocates for Plastics Careers in America$7,9751n/a
Germantown School District$6,8501n/a
North Carolina State University$6,5001n/a
Colorado School of Mines$6,0001n/a
Rochester Institute of Technology$5,51510%
Regents of the University of Michigan$5,5001n/a
Drexel University$5,50010%
Regents Univ of California$5,5001n/a
The Trustees of Princeton University$5,50010%
Rutgers the State University$5,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Society of Plastics Engineers Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Paradigm for Education Inc: $81,400 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKettering University: $44,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Northeast Texas: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Akron Research Foundation: $34,625 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMcKinney Education Foundation: $20,470 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLake Wales Charter Schools Inc: $16,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSchoolcraft College Foundation: $15,850 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBaylor University: $14,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLehigh University: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUw-Stout Foundation and Alumni Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEsf College Foundation Inc: $9,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $5,515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDrexel University: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL8.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Society of Plastics Engineers Inc

How much does Society of Plastics Engineers Inc give?
Society of Plastics Engineers Inc reported 17 itemized grants totaling $177,750, out of $288,164 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Society of Plastics Engineers Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (80%), Science & Tech (15%), Youth Development (4%).
Who are Society of Plastics Engineers Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Western Washington University ($109k), Cape Cod Community College ($87k), New Paradigm for Education Inc ($81k).
Does Society of Plastics Engineers Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Society of Plastics Engineers Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Society of Plastics Engineers Inc based?
Society of Plastics Engineers Inc is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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