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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 FY2024(still arriving)
46
Grants FY2024
37
Organizations funded FY2023
41%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$254,070
Organizations funded a year
37 to 46
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$32M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 41% of the organizations Spector Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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 arriving36$1.3M36%
FY202337$1.4M41%
FY202246$1.5M37%
FY202146$342k65%
FY202038$1.2Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
TN
DC
HI
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St John's College$2,299,87041%
St Johns College in Santa Fe$1,040,0001n/a
Kipp New York Inc$685,00051%
New York Public Radio$351,50050%
The Chapin School Ltd$142,50050%
Barnard College$123,05030%
Anti-Defamation League$100,00010%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$100,00010%
Mv Youth Inc$83,31651%
Gift of Life Marrow Registry Inc$75,80050%
Show all 105 grantees
All grantees of Spector Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St John's College$2,299,87041%
St Johns College in Santa Fe$1,040,0001n/a
Kipp New York Inc$685,00051%
New York Public Radio$351,50050%
The Chapin School Ltd$142,50050%
Barnard College$123,05030%
Anti-Defamation League$100,00010%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$100,00010%
Mv Youth Inc$83,31651%
Gift of Life Marrow Registry Inc$75,80050%
Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc$61,50030%
Whitney Museum of American Art$53,50050%
Children's Hospital of Orange County$42,00030%
Washington Square Park Conservancy Inc$41,50041%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$27,50030%
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation$27,15213%
International Rescue Committee INC$25,00010%
Northwell Health Foundation$25,00010%
Perfect Earth Project Inc$22,00022%
Fractured Atlas Inc$20,00020%
Citizens Committee for Children of New York Inc$20,00040%
YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc$17,50040%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$16,80030%
Choc Foundation$16,00010%
Junior Tennis Champions Center Inc$15,32010%
New York Common Pantry$15,00030%
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation$15,00020%
Martha's Table Inc$12,00030%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$12,00010%
New York Shakespeare Festival$11,20020%
Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc$10,00050%
Usagainstalzheimer's$10,00020%
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Inc$10,00020%
American Jewish Committee$10,00010%
Kind Kitchen of Palm beach Inc$10,00021%
South Florida Public Media Group Inc$9,60050%
Palm Beach Country Club Foundation Inc$9,00050%
An Open Book Foundation$7,00011%
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc$5,00010%
Island Housing Trust Corporation$5,00010%
Sheriff's Meadow Foundation$5,00010%
Group I Acting Company Inc$5,00010%
Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc$5,00010%
School of Leadership-Afghanistan Inc$5,00010%
Closely Crafted Inc$5,00019%
The Everglades Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Kipp Academy Charter School$5,00010%
Lynne Cohen Foundation for Ovarian Cancer Research$5,00011%
Harlem Grown Inc$5,00010%
Norton Museum of Art Inc$5,00010%
The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc$5,00010%
Forafrika USA$5,00010%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$5,0001n/a
Craft Emergency Relief Fund Inc$5,00010%
Save Venice Inc$5,00010%
Friends of Zara's Center$4,00042%
Durham Historical Society$4,0001n/a
Peace 4 Kids$3,60010%
Maret School Inc$3,50010%
WGBH Educational Foundation$3,00030%
Coastal Roots Farm$3,00030%
Orange County Fire Authority Foundation$3,00011%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$2,50010%
Development in Gardening$2,50010%
Prep for Prep$2,50010%
Rancho Coastal Humane Society$2,50020%
Trustees of Eliot School$2,50030%
Orange County Fire Authority Benevolent Association$2,25020%
New York City Police Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Animal Rescue League of Boston$2,00020%
V G C Foundation Inc$2,00031%
Live Like Jake Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc$2,00020%
Boston Preservation Alliance Inc$2,00020%
Girls Who Code Inc$2,00010%
Literacy Inc$2,00020%
Lungevity Foundation Inc$1,50010%
Mv Center for Education and Training (Mv$1,00010%
North Bennet Street School$1,00010%
Manhattan Class Company Inc$1,00010%
Friends of the Cardiff by the Sea Library$1,0001n/a
NAACP Foundation$1,00010%
Washington Square Park Dog Run Association Inc$1,00021%
Radio Diaries Inc$1,00010%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$1,00010%
The Forgotten Dog Foundation$1,00010%
Benevolent Healthcare Foundation$1,00010%
Yamba Malawi Inc$1,00010%
A Wider Circle Inc$1,00010%
Peabody Essex Museum Inc$1,00010%
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego$1,00010%
New England Electric Railway Historical Society$1,00010%
Mamatoto Village Inc$1,00010%
Every Mother Counts$1,00010%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego$1,00010%
Martha's Table So Inc$50010%
Viking Foundation Inc$50010%
San Diego Humane Society and Spca$50010%
Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank$50010%
Monadnock Kitty Rescue and Adoption$5001n/a
The Children's Aid Society$50010%
American Institute for Cancer Research$50010%
Share Our Strength$48310%
Boathouse Foundation Inc$30011%
Orange County Fire Authority Pipes & Drums$2501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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 budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGood Samaritan Hospital Foundation: $27,152 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPerfect Earth Project Inc: $22,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens Committee for Children of New York Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 budgetNew York Common Pantry: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSolomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMartha's Table Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Shakespeare Festival: $11,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 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 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 budgetPalm Beach Country Club Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAn Open Book Foundation: $7,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Housing Trust Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSheriff's Meadow Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGroup I Acting Company Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Film Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSchool of Leadership-Afghanistan Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClosely Crafted Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetThe Everglades Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKipp Academy Charter School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLynne Cohen Foundation for Ovarian Cancer Research: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHarlem Grown Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 99.

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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.

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

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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About Spector Family Foundation

How much does Spector Family Foundation give?
Spector Family Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $1,403,640 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 46 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Spector Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (59%), Philanthropy (21%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are Spector Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: St John's College ($2.3M), St Johns College in Santa Fe ($1.0M), Kipp New York Inc ($685k).
Does Spector Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Spector Family 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 Spector Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Greater Washington Community Foundation.
Where is Spector Family Foundation based?
Spector Family Foundation is based in DE.

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 119 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.

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