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Spectrum for Living Development Inc

To enable individuals who have developmental and/or physical disabilities to have the opportunity to attain their highest level of skills, purpose and independence.

$337k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Human Services$662kHealth$293kHousing & Shelter$144k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $299,685, the rows itemized in this filing. The $336,783 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $37,098 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $268k
$62,813
Median grant
1
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPECTRUM PARAMUS HOME INC$76,558
SPECTRUM RIVER VALE APARTMENTS INC$73,444
SPECTRUM CLOSTER APARTMENTS INC$62,813
SPECTRUM RINGWOOD APARTMENTS INC$55,261
SPECTRUM FOR LIVING HILLSDALE PROPERTY INC$16,412
SPECTRUM FOR LIVING MAYWOOD HOME INC$15,197
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 (FY24–25, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%SPECTRUM RINGWOOD APARTMENTS INC: $214k → 7%SPECTRUM RINGWOOD APARTMENTS INC: $55k → 7%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 8 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -5% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$1.4M
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
-10%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SP
    SPECTRUM PARAMUS HOME INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $112k · revenue +88% · 45% of their budget
  • SC
    SPECTRUM CLOSTER APARTMENTS INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +24% · 30% of their budget
  • SF
    SPECTRUM FOR LIVING RIVER VALE APARTMENTS INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $87k · revenue +26% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • SH
    SPECTRUM HAWORTH HOME INC
    one grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue -10% · 25% of their budget
  • SF
    SPECTRUM FOR LIVING - MIDDLESEX INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $21k · revenue -62%
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
Spectrum for Living Development Inc

To enable individuals who have developmental and/or physical disabilities to have the opportunity to attain their highest level of skills, purpose and independence.

Human Services
2
Spectrum Community Services

To develop and provide human service programs for intellectually and developmentally disabled children and adults in the areas of residential, enhanced health and support coordination; and to provide residential services for the mentally…

Human Services
3
Spectrum Community Services Inc

The organization serves the needs of individuals with disabilities and the economically challenged and provides residential options referred and funded through county mental health/mental retardation programs. also provided are family…

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4
Summit Housing Development Corp

Summit housing delevopment corporation (shdc) started in 1992 as a private, non-profit corporation with the purpose of delevoping, acquiring, and managing housing for those with developmental disabilities.

Housing & Shelter
5
Specialized Housing Inc

Provide housing to low-income individuals with disabilities.

Housing & Shelter
6
Special Abilities of North Texas Inc

To provide the highest quality care, training and support to adults with special needs, giving them opportunities to succeed in life.

Human Services
7
Spectrum for Living Endowment Inc

To benefit persons with developmental disabilities and enable them to attain their highest level of purpose and independence through advocacy, family involvement, and provision of quality services. in this regard, the organization will…

Human Services
8
Spectrum Industries

Helping individuals with cognitive disabilities, mental illness, and other barriers to independent living enter the workforce and the community.

Employment
9
Parc Residential Options

Provide housing for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Housing & Shelter
10
Spectrum Support Inc

To form relationships which support people to achieve their life goals in the areas of residential, employment, meaningful community engagement and personal services.

Employment
11
Community Living Inc

To provide housing to individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities

—
12
Spectrum Human Services Inc

Developing, operating and managing a continuum of programs and services to children, youth, adults and families designed to build a strong foundation, support the family structure and provide life improvement alternatives.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spectrum for Living Group Homes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Spectrum Maywood Home Inc. 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

10 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.

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

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPECTRUM FOR LIVING GROUP HOMES INC: $519,618 · OtherSPECTRUM FOR LIVING GROUP HOMES INCSPECTRUM FOR LIVING CORPORATION: $177,107 · OtherSPECTRUM FOR LIVING CORPORATION+1 more: $21,357 · OtherSPECTRUM PARAMUS HOME INC: $112,243 · Housing & ShelterSPECTRUM PARAMUS HOME INCSPECTRUM CLOSTER APARTMENTS INC: $108,278 · Housing & ShelterSPECTRUM CLOSTER APARTMENTS INCSPECTRUM FOR LIVING RIVER VALE APARTMENTS INC: $87,107 · Housing & ShelterSPECTRUM FOR LIVING RIVER VALE AP…SPECTRUM FOR LIVING HILLSDALE PROPERTY: $55,447 · Housing & ShelterSPECTRUM FOR LIVING HILLSDALE PRO…SPECTRUM MAYWOOD HOME INC: $24,994 · Housing & ShelterSPECTRUM MAYWOOD HOME INCSPECTRUM HAWORTH HOME INC: $23,456 · Housing & ShelterSPECTRUM HAWORTH HOME INCSPECTRUM RINGWOOD APARTMENTS INC: $268,766 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM RINGWOOD APA…
Other$718,082Housing & Shelter$411,525Human Services$268,766

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPECTRUM FOR LIVING GROUP HOMES INC: $519,618 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSPECTRUM RINGWOOD APARTMENTS INC: $268,766 over 2y, 59% of budgetSPECTRUM FOR LIVING CORPORATION: $177,107 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSPECTRUM PARAMUS HOME INC: $112,243 over 5y, 45% of budgetSPECTRUM CLOSTER APARTMENTS INC: $108,278 over 4y, 30% of budgetSPECTRUM FOR LIVING RIVER VALE APARTMENTS INC: $87,107 over 2y, 28% of budgetSPECTRUM FOR LIVING HILLSDALE PROPERTY: $55,447 over 3y, 32% of budgetSPECTRUM MAYWOOD HOME INC: $24,994 over 2y, 20% of budgetSPECTRUM HAWORTH HOME INC: $23,456 over 1y, 25% of budgetSPECTRUM FOR LIVING - MIDDLESEX INC: $21,357 over 3y, 1.6% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Spectrum for Living Development Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spectrum for Living Development Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Spectrum for Living Development Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Spectrum for Living Development Inc 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.

    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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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