Georgia · Private foundation
Speedwell 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.
- $7.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 66
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $175M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Speedwell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 28 | $7.1M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $6.9M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $2.9M | 46% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $721k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $1.2M | 21% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $4.0M | 44% |
| FY2018 | 55 | $6.1M | 44% |
| FY2017 | 66 | $6.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Tech Foundation Inc | $14,370,325 | 7 | 2% |
| US Naval Academy Foundation Inc | $3,200,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Afs-Usa Inc | $2,065,044 | 7 | 1% |
| Carolina Voyager Charter School | $1,510,652 | 2 | 0% |
| Allegro Charter School of Music | $859,000 | 4 | 11% |
| The Drexel Fund | $750,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Charleston Symphony Orchestra | $595,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Prospect Park Alliance Inc | $551,375 | 8 | 1% |
| Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School Inc | $528,245 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of the Lowline | $514,637 | 2 | 45% |
Show all 93 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Speedwell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Joanna Foundation · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Pathfinder Foundation Inc · Guffey Family Foundation · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · Post and Courier Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc
How this is measured
About Speedwell Foundation
- How much does Speedwell Foundation give?
- Speedwell Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $7,122,937 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 66 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Speedwell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (44%), Philanthropy (35%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
- Who are Speedwell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Georgia Tech Foundation Inc ($14M), US Naval Academy Foundation Inc ($3.2M), Afs-Usa Inc ($2.1M).
- Does Speedwell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Speedwell 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 Speedwell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.
- Where is Speedwell Foundation based?
- Speedwell Foundation is based in GA.
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