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Speer Dream Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
43
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$45,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$34M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Human Services$1.6MEducation$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$560kHealth$504kCrime & Legal$205kArts & Culture$177kYouth Development$153kFood & Nutrition$135kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 38 grantees
All grantees of Speer Dream Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young Mens Christian Association of Greater St Petersburg Inc$1,086,00022%
Keswick Christian School Inc$833,0002n/a
Heroes of the St Pete Police and Fire Resue Inc$410,000264%
St Petersburg College Foundation Inc$250,00013%
Pinellas County Sheriffs Office Foundation Inc$150,0001100%
Bill Edwards Foundation for the Arts Inc$130,00013%
Academy Prep Center of St Petersburg$120,00014%
The Kind Mouse Productions Inc$110,00026%
Global Prison Seminaries Foundation$100,0001n/a
St Pete Fools Charities Inc$100,0001n/a
Julie Weintraub's Hands Across the Bay Inc$100,0001n/a
Sailfuture Inc$100,00012%
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc$50,0001n/a
Rebekahs Angels Foundation Inc$50,0001n/a
Fisher House Foundation Inc$50,00010%
Big Cat Habitat Education and Conservation Center Inc$50,00013%
Breakthrough T1d$50,00010%
Sing Out and Read Inc$50,00016%
Lighthouse Media Na Inc$45,0001n/a
Pinellas County Sheriff's Police Athletic League Inc$30,00012%
Orlando Health Foundation Inc$30,00010%
Tampa Bay Area Chiefs of Police Foundation Inc$25,00016%
360 Eats$25,00014%
The Magic Yarn Project$25,00016%
Our Children Have Rightsorg Inc$24,00018%
Florida Elks Charities Inc$23,0002n/a
Learning Empowered Inc$20,00011%
Ready for Life Inc$15,00011%
Parc Inc$10,00010%
Brookwood Florida Inc$10,00011%
The Payton Wright Foundation Inc$10,00011%
Jackson in Action 83 Foundation Inc$10,00014%
Johns Hopkins All Children's Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Greater Largo Library Foundation Inc$10,00012%
Learning Independence for Tomorrow Inc$10,00010%
All the Worlds Kids$5,0001n/a
Angels Against Abuse Inc$5,00011%
Creative Pinellas Inc$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($770k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Speer Dream Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater St Petersburg Inc: $1,086,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetHeroes of the St Pete Police and Fire Resue Inc: $410,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetSt Petersburg College Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPinellas County Sheriffs Office Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetBill Edwards Foundation for the Arts Inc: $130,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetAcademy Prep Center of St Petersburg: $120,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetThe Kind Mouse Productions Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetSailfuture Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Cat Habitat Education and Conservation Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSing Out and Read Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetPinellas County Sheriff's Police Athletic League Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOrlando Health Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTampa Bay Area Chiefs of Police Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budget360 Eats: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetThe Magic Yarn Project: $25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetOur Children Have Rightsorg Inc: $24,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetLearning Empowered Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetReady for Life Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetParc Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrookwood Florida Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Payton Wright Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJackson in Action 83 Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetJohns Hopkins All Children's Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Largo Library Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLearning Independence for Tomorrow Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAngels Against Abuse Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCreative Pinellas Inc: $2,000 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 29.

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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.

Community Foundation of Tampa Bay IncFL38× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Vinik Family Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Speer Foundation · Foundation for a Healthy St Petersburg Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · White Family Foundation · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Francis and Gertrude Levett Foundation · Suncoast Credit Union 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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How do I get to Speer Dream Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Speer Dream Foundation 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.

About Speer Dream Foundation

How much does Speer Dream Foundation give?
Speer Dream Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $2,552,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Speer Dream Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Education (26%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%).
Who are Speer Dream Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Young Mens Christian Association of Greater St Petersburg Inc ($1.1M), Keswick Christian School Inc ($833k), Heroes of the St Pete Police and Fire Resue Inc ($410k).
Does Speer Dream 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 Speer Dream Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc, Pinellas Community Foundation, Vinik Family Foundation.
Where is Speer Dream Foundation based?
Speer Dream Foundation is based in FL.

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 52 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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