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Spam Benevolent Fund Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Spam Benevolent Fund Inc

To assist members - state troopers, sergeants, and their families - in times of need and to provide scholarships.

$103k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$34kEducation$22kHealth$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kPhilanthropy$15kArts & Culture$13kCrime & Legal$6k
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $34,879, the rows itemized in this filing. The $102,782 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $67,903 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$6,605
Median grant
3
States reached
$729k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GREG HILL FOUNDATION: $27k → 8%GUILD OF ST AGNES: $10k → 11%GREG HILL FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Firemen's Relief Fund
Public Safety & Disaster
2
Brotherhood for the Fallen Boston Chapter Inc

Provide support to families of police officers murdered in the line of duty

Unclassified
3
Boston Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Police Foundation's Third Decade Fund for Improving Public Safety

The mission of the organization is to provide charitable support exclusively for the benefit of the national policing institute.

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5
Maine State Troopers Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Friends of the Boston Police Inc

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Massachusetts Fallen Firefighters Memorial Fund Inc

The fund was established to design, construct and maintain a memorial for deceased firefighters.

Arts & Culture
8
Minneapolis Fire Foundation
Education
9
Staunton Police Foundation
Crime & Legal
10
Chief Michael Maloney Memorial Fund

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…

Public Benefit
11
Massachusetts Corps of Fire Chaplains
Public Safety & Disaster
12
Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association Foundation Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $34,350 · Human ServicesGREG HILL FOUNDATION INCGUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesGUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTERTEAM IMPACT INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTEAM IMPACT INCBOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FO…The Boston Police Foundation Inc: $5,602 · PhilanthropyThe Boston Police Foundatio…THE GIBLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIBLIN FAMILY FOUNDATIO…NTC FOUNDATION: $6,605 · Arts & CultureNTC FOUNDAT…Massachusetts State Police Museum and Learning Center Inc: $6,000 · Arts & CultureMassachuset…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,207 · EducationSTEPHEN SI…TROOPER PAUL BARRY FAMILY FOUND: $6,200 · OtherTROOPER P…DANA OLIVER BENEFIT FOR STAGE 4 CANCER: $5,064 · OtherDANA OLIV…BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL 718 CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $6,605 · Youth DevelopmentMINNESOTA CHIEFS OF POLICE FOUNDATION: $5,602 · Crime & LegalTEAMSTERS LOCAL 25 AUTISM FUND INC: $5,000 · Health
Human Services$44,350Philanthropy$30,602Arts & Culture$12,605Education$12,207Other$11,264Youth Development$6,605Crime & Legal$5,602Health$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $34,350 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,207 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM IMPACT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL 718 CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $6,605 over 1y, 35% of budgetNTC FOUNDATION: $6,605 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts State Police Museum and Learning Center Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMINNESOTA CHIEFS OF POLICE FOUNDATION: $5,602 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetThe Boston Police Foundation Inc: $5,602 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE GIBLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTEAMSTERS LOCAL 25 AUTISM FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Spam Benevolent Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spam Benevolent Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 63%
  • Guild of Saint Agnes of Worcester: 63% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 14 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $100k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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