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Spector Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$254k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$4.3MPhilanthropy$1.5MArts & Culture$520kHealth$291kCivil Rights$131kReligion$100kHuman Services$90kYouth Development$84kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $213k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $856k
  • $250k+1 grant · $254k
$7,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOHNS COLLEGE$254,070
KIPP NEW YORK INC$200,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$125,000
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$100,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC$100,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$100,000
CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD$99,500
BARNARD COLLEGE$81,250
ST JOHNS COLLEGE$50,000
KIPP NEW YORK INC$35,000
ST JOHNS COLLEGE$29,800
MV YOUTH INC$25,000
CHOC FOUNDATION$16,000
JUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC$15,320
GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LYNNE COHEN FOUNDATION FOR OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH: $5k → 14%MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $1k → 14%ORANGE COUNTY FIRE AUTHORITY BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATIO: $2k → 10%LIVE LIKE JAKE FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 11%MARTHAS VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $47k → 8%ORANGE COUNTY FIRE AUTHORITY BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATIO: $250 → 10%MARTHAS VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 8%KIND KITCHEN OF PALM BEACH INC: $5k → 11%MARTHAS VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 8%KIND KITCHEN OF PALM BEACH INC: $5k → 11%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $500 → 17%YAMBA MALAWI INC: $1k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 29% of Spector Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Spector Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 41 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
59

Total granted

$4.3M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+19%

Still filing today

93%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsOther

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

  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S COLLEGE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +74%
  • KN
    KIPP NEW YORK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $685k · revenue +189%
  • NY
    NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO
    5× · 2020–2024 · $352k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOHNS COLLEGE IN SANTA FE
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • GS
    GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $27k · revenue +370%
  • NH
    NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
7
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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9
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
10
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
11
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
12
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is Monadnock Kitty Rescue and Adoption. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Community Arts CentersJewish Community Organizati…Cancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Women & Girls Leadership De…United Way AffiliatesElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Development CentersPregnancy Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterChristian Missionary Organi…Local History MuseumsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyYmca Youth DevelopmentHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%10%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%60%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/111
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,454

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.

05the grantee network

106 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. 106 of the 119 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/106
Grantees still filing
74/106
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JOHN'S COLLEGE — $2,299,870 · EducationST JOHN'S COLLEGEKIPP NEW YORK INC — $685,000 · EducationKIPP NEW YORK INCTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $142,500 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE — $123,050 · Education+11 more — $56,300 · EducationDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $1,143,450 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABL…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $318,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PA…+7 more — $28,000 · PhilanthropyST JOHNS COLLEGE IN SANTA FE — $1,040,000 · OtherST JOHNS COLLEGE IN SANT…MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $61,500 · OtherMV YOUTH INC — $83,316 · Other+60 more — $410,570 · Other+60 moreNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $351,500 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $53,500 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $69,200 · Arts & CultureGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC — $75,800 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY — $42,000 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATION — $16,000 · HealthUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S — $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $10,000 · HealthSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC — $9,600 · Health+5 more — $5,000 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $100,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $1,000 · Civil RightsHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $100,000 · ReligionFORAFRIKA USA — $5,000 · Religion
Education$3,306,720Philanthropy$1,489,950Other$1,595,386Arts & Culture$494,200Health$193,400Civil Rights$111,000Religion$105,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST JOHN'S COLLEGE — $2,299,870 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetKIPP NEW YORK INC — $685,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $351,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $318,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $142,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $123,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMV YOUTH INC — $83,316 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC — $75,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $61,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $53,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY — $42,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $41,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $27,152 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERFECT EARTH PROJECT INC — $22,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc — $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $16,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC — $15,320 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $11,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKind Kitchen of Palm beach Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC — $9,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAN OPEN BOOK FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLYNNE COHEN FOUNDATION FOR OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKIPP ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM GROWN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundGreater Washington Co…Simmons Family Founda…If Hummingbird Founda…Boston Foundation IncO'Connell Family Foun…Pearson-Rappaport Fou…Dmr Family Foundation…The Stanton Family Fo…Tower Family Fund IncSelect Equity Group F…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY16.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Simmons Family Foundation Inc · If Hummingbird Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · O'Connell Family Foundation Inc · Pearson-Rappaport Foundation · Dmr Family Foundation Inc · The Stanton Family Foundation · Tower Family Fund Inc · Select Equity Group 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 Spector Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Eliot School — 2% of income from government
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc — 2% of income from government
  • St John's College — 2% of income from government
  • Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 119 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Source object · view filing

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