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Spawglass Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$14k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Spawglass Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesEnvironmentOther
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 arriving1$5k0%
FY20232$15k0%
FY20221$5k0%
FY20213$50k67%
FY20202$35k50%
FY20193$74k67%
FY20188$99k63%
FY201718$149kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$169kPhilanthropy$75kHuman Services$55kHealth$38kReligion$30kRecreation & Sports$27kArts & Culture$7kEnvironment$5kOther$0

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
I Live Here I Give Here$60,00022%
Create Inc$53,000810%
Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas$40,00012%
Brighton Center$35,00010%
Texas A&M Foundation$20,00010%
The United Way Inc$14,89520%
American Heart Association Inc$6,60010%
Walk for Women Inc$5,05017%
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc$5,00010%
St Joseph Schools Inc$4,0001n/a
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of Spawglass Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
I Live Here I Give Here$60,00022%
Create Inc$53,000810%
Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas$40,00012%
Brighton Center$35,00010%
Texas A&M Foundation$20,00010%
The United Way Inc$14,89520%
American Heart Association Inc$6,60010%
Walk for Women Inc$5,05017%
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc$5,00010%
St Joseph Schools Inc$4,0001n/a
Harlingen Area Educational Foundation Inc$2,5001n/a
Easter Seals Rio Grande Valley$1,60010%
Las Huellas Inc$1,50012%
Lead Sa$1,25012%
The University of Texas Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Rio Grande Habitat for Humanityinc$4001n/a
Junior League of Harlingen$30011%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($179k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Spawglass Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetI Live Here I Give Here: $60,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCreate Inc: $53,000 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetChildrens Bereavement Center of South Texas: $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBrighton Center: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United Way Inc: $14,895 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWalk for Women Inc: $5,050 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCoastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEaster Seals Rio Grande Valley: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLas Huellas Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLead Sa: $1,250 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe University of Texas Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior League of Harlingen: $300 over 1y, 0.6% 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 14.

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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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How do I get to Spawglass Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Spawglass Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Spawglass Foundation

How much does Spawglass Foundation give?
Spawglass Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Spawglass Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Philanthropy (17%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Spawglass Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: I Live Here I Give Here ($60k), Create Inc ($53k), Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas ($40k).
Does Spawglass Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Spawglass Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Spawglass Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Spawglass Foundation based?
Spawglass Foundation is based in TX.

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 28 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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