· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $177,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $288,164 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $110,414 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $29,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUETTS-LOWELL | $18,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY | $13,000 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $12,625 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE | $10,500 |
| GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $10,125 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER CHICAGO AND NORTHWEST INDIANA | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,250 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,000 |
| WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| PENN STATE ERIE - BEHREND COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $5,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of your 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.
23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- NPNew Paradigm for Education Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $81k · revenue +28%
- KUKettering University5× · 2017–2023 · $44k · revenue +42%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS2× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- MEMCKINNEY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +112%
- TOTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $20k
- LWLAKE WALES CHARTER SCHOOLS INCone grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue +24%
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Princeton University and the most unlike its peers is New Paradigm for Education Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
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 47 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 New Paradigm for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds Kettering University ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF AKRON RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCKINNEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLCRAFT COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana ↗
- Who funds ESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
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: 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
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 Society of Plastics Engineers 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 12% of income from government
- Lake Wales Charter Schools 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.