· Public charity
Spam Benevolent Fund Inc
To assist members - state troopers, sergeants, and their families - in times of need and to provide scholarships.
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.
The 5 grants below total $34,879 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $102,782 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $67,903 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON BRUINS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $6,605 |
| NTC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $6,605 |
| BOSTON LOCAL 718 FIREFIGHTERS & FCF | $6,605 |
| DANA OLIVER BENEFIT FOR STAGE 4 CANCER | $5,064 |
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 (FY17–18, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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.
Provide support to families of police officers murdered in the line of duty
The mission of the organization is to provide charitable support exclusively for the benefit of the national policing institute.
Friends of the boston police, inc. is a non-profit formed to support the needs of the boston police department of boston, ma. their efforts include fundraising, meeting with the boston police to learn their needs, then applying funds to…
The fund was established to design, construct and maintain a memorial for deceased firefighters.
Our mission is to provide relief fort he distressed members, spouses and children of new england public safety who have been killed or injured in the line of duty. such relief may take the form of direct financial assistance to the victim…
Massachusetts chiefs of police association foundation, inc. is a not-for-profit organization for educational purposes to support the efforts of the massachusetts chiefs of police association, inc. in providing training and technical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Giblin Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds NTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL 718 CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts State Police Museum and Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Boston Police Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CHIEFS OF POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GIBLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEAMSTERS LOCAL 25 AUTISM FUND 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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Spam Benevolent Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Guild of Saint Agnes of Worcester — 63% 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.