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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 FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$3.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$24MPhilanthropy$19MRecreation & Sports$2.7MInternational$2.1MEnvironment$2.0MArts & Culture$1.8MCommunity Improvement$990kReligion$537kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $182k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+5 grants · $5.6M
$75,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$175M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Georgia Tech Foundation$3,200,000
United States Naval Academy Foundat$1,300,000
Allegro Charter School Music$500,000
AFS USA$315,000
Drexel Fund$250,000
Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High Scho$218,000
Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc$185,000
City Park Alliance$150,300
Center for Independent Documentary$149,000
Prospect Park Alliance$127,500
Lancaster County Conservancy$100,100
Atlanta Beltline Partnership Inc$100,000
Charleston Symphony Orchestra$100,000
Trust for Public Land San Francisco$75,000
Charleston Catholic Schools$65,000
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 (FY17–24, $313k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Families United Network: $2k → 12%PATH: $1k → 14%Gabriel Homes: $20k → 6%Gabriel Homes: $20k → 6%YMCA of the Greater Houston Area: $50k → 16%Covenant House: $41k → 17%GENaustin: $13k → 10%Covenant House: $10k → 17%GENaustin: $9k → 10%Covenant House: $5k → 17%GENaustin: $5k → 10%New Women New Yorkers: $3k → 17%Meals on Wheels Atlanta: $13k → 13%Meals on Wheels Atlanta: $10k → 13%Meals on Wheels - Atlanta: $1k → 13%WINGS for Kids: $40k → 12%WINGS for Kids: $40k → 12%YWCA Greater Charleston: $10k → 12%YWCA Greater Charleston: $10k → 12%YWCA Greater Charleston: $10k → 12%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
WA
WI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 45% of Speedwell Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 17%.

Speedwell Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33M · 70 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
70

Total granted

$33M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+33%

Still filing today

67%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $14M · revenue +103%
  • UN
    US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +41%
  • CV
    CAROLINA VOYAGER CHARTER SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +412%

Funded once

  • CC
    Charleston County Park Rec Commisio
    one grant, 2017 · $501k
  • AC
    Allegro Charter School Music
    one grant, 2017 · $350k
  • HC
    HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -35%
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
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.

—
3
Charlotte Center City Partners

Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.

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4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

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

—
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
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
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
11
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
12
Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose Inc

Chief executives for corporate purpose (cecp) is the only business counsel and network dedicated to driving measurable returns on purpose. we promote responsible purpose-driven business as it increases customer loyalty, builds employee…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia; the most unlike its peers is The Drexel Fund. 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

83 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. 83 of the 147 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/83
Grantees still filing
61/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $14,370,325 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $3,200,000 · EducationUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCCAROLINA VOYAGER CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,510,652 · EducationCAROLINA VOYAGER CHARTER SCHOOLALLEGRO CHARTER SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $859,000 · EducationTHE DREXEL FUND: $750,000 · Education+8 more: $954,500 · EducationNATIONAL CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT INC: $19,004,543 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT INC+1 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCharleston Park Conservancy: $1,066,000 · OtherCharleston Park C…CRISTO REY ATLANTA JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL INC: $528,245 · OtherCRISTO REY ATLANT…Charleston County Park Rec Commisio: $500,982 · OtherCharleston County…The Drexel Funds: $500,000 · OtherThe Drexel FundsCity Park Alliance: $441,551 · OtherCristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit: $432,863 · OtherPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc: $404,591 · OtherCATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS CAMDEN: $356,250 · OtherAllegro Charter School Music: $350,000 · OtherCHARLESTON CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $345,800 · OtherBasilica of Sacred Heart of Jesus: $311,800 · OtherCHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $405,000 · Other+98 more: $2,694,850 · Other+98 moreAFS-USA INC: $2,065,044 · International+3 more: $4,000 · InternationalPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $551,375 · Recreation & SportsCITY PARKS ALLIANCE INC: $450,300 · Recreation & SportsOLMSTED NETWORK INC: $183,875 · Recreation & SportsPARK PRIDE INC: $175,000 · Recreation & SportsCharleston Moves: $150,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $595,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $250,273 · Arts & CultureATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $150,000 · Arts & CultureWNET: $80,000 · Arts & CultureSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $58,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $41,480 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE LOWLINE: $514,637 · Community Improvement+1 more: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Education$21,644,477Philanthropy$19,029,543Other$8,337,932International$2,069,044Recreation & Sports$1,520,550Arts & Culture$1,425,253Community Improvement$529,637

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 budgetNATIONAL CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT INC: $19,004,543 over 4y, 35% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $14,370,325 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $3,200,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetAFS-USA INC: $2,065,044 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCAROLINA VOYAGER CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,510,652 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALLEGRO CHARTER SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $859,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE DREXEL FUND: $750,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetCHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $595,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $551,375 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOWLINE: $514,637 over 2y, 45% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY PARKS ALLIANCE INC: $450,300 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetCHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $405,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc: $404,591 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetCATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS CAMDEN: $356,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $250,273 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $225,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOLMSTED NETWORK INC: $183,875 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetPARK PRIDE INC: $175,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $160,100 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNet Texts Foundation: $153,123 over 3y, 100% of budgetHISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCharleston Moves: $150,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWINGS FOR KIDS: $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $80,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetWNET: $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN EXPLORE INC: $70,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetChampions Educational Foundation: $70,000 over 3y, 21% of budget50CAN INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $58,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $55,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROPEL ATL INC: $51,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGABRIEL HOMES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEAST COOPER LAND TRUST: $40,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPalmetto Promise Institute: $40,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetRIPPLEFFECT INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON: $30,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetGENAUSTIN: $27,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetANSLEY PARK BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 4y, 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AFS-USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA VOYAGER CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ALLEGRO CHARTER SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds THE DREXEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOWLINE ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds CITY PARKS ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
  • Who funds Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS CAMDEN ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OLMSTED NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Net Texts Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Charleston Moves ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds WINGS FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗

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.

Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…Coastal Community Fou…Gaylord and Dorothy D…The Joanna FoundationTHDF II Inc DBA The H…The Waterfall Foundat…Community Foundation …Pathfinder Foundation…Guffey Family Foundat…The Mark Elliott Motl…Post and Courier Foun…Publix Super Markets …
Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation IncSC25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • The Samaritans On Cape Cod: 82% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 147 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home