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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $338k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE YMCA OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG | $500,000 |
| KESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $233,000 |
| HEROES OF THE ST PETE POLICE & FIRE RESCUE | $180,000 |
| ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF ST PETERSBURG | $120,000 |
| ST ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $119,000 |
| SAILFUTURE | $100,000 |
| KESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC | $100,000 |
| GLOBAL PRISON SEMINARIES FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| HANDS ACROSS THE BAY | $100,000 |
| ST PETE FOOLS CHARITIES | $100,000 |
| REBEKAH'S ANGELS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE YMCA OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG | $50,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $50,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COUNTRYSIDE CARES DBA HELPING HANDS | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Speer Dream Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG INC2× · 2024–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +70%
- KCKESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $833k · revenue +31%
- TKThe Kind Mouse Productions Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $110k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- SPST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +110%
- PCPINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $150k · 100% of their budget
- BEBILL EDWARDS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $130k · revenue +40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To improve the quality of life in our community by bringing together philanthropy and solutions to local issues. from the issues of childhood hunger, homelessness, or quality healthcare to arts education or college scholarships, pcf…
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
At St. Petersburg Primary School, we nuture curious minds through play-based education and joyful exploration. We develop confident and compassionate children within our welcoming, faith-based community.
The police and kids foundation was created to support families of florida 1st responders who die in the line of duty, provide equipment grants t o1st responders and to support children of tampa bay.
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)
The mission of careersource pinellas is to build the talent pipeline for today and the future by providing easy access to workforce solutions.
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
The peer support coalition of florida's mission is to advance peer support in florida and nationally. we provide access to resources that will encourage peers (individuals with lived experience of mental health and/or substance use issues)…
To empower individuals of all ages and abilities and their families through comprehensive intervention and disability services promoting growth and belonging.
The mission of the child protection center, inc. is the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. we envision a community where children are safe from abuse and free to thrive. to successfully address the issue of child abuse,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ready for Life Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Magic Yarn Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds KESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Heroes of the St Pete Police and Fire Resue Inc ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BILL EDWARDS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF ST PETERSBURG ↗
- Who funds The Kind Mouse Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds JULIE WEINTRAUB'S HANDS ACROSS THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds St Pete Fools Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds SAILFUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PRISON SEMINARIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CAT HABITAT EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Rebekahs Angels Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds SING OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MEDIA NA INC ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Orlando Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Magic Yarn Project ↗
- Who funds Tampa Bay Area Chiefs of Police Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds 360 EATS ↗
- Who funds OUR CHILDREN HAVE RIGHTSORG INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ELKS CHARITIES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Speer Dream Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Brookwood Florida Inc — 7% of income from government
- Parc Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Kind Mouse Productions Inc — 0% of income from government
- 360 Eats — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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