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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC$100,000
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$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

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 (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. Its 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%ORANGE COUNTY FIRE AUTHORITY BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATIO: $250 → 10%LIVE LIKE JAKE FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 11%MARTHAS VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $47k → 8%MARTHAS VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 8%MARTHAS VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 8%KIND KITCHEN OF PALM BEACH INC: $5k → 11%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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
TN
DC
HI
GA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 29% of Spector Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Spector Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
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.

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%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -4%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

106 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. 106 of the 119 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/106
Grantees still filing
75/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 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 budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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.

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

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 Spector Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spector Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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 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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