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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 FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
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, FY2024 to 2025.

Human Services$1.6MEducation$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$560kHealth$504kCrime & Legal$205kArts & Culture$177kYouth Development$153kFood & Nutrition$135kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $338k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$45,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ST PETE FOOLS CHARITIES$100,000
KESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC$100,000
HANDS ACROSS THE BAY$100,000
GLOBAL PRISON SEMINARIES FOUNDATION INC$100,000
ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,000
THE KIND MOUSE$50,000
COAST GUARD FOUNDATION$50,000
HEROES OF THE ST PETE POLICE & FIRE RESCUE$50,000
WHAT EVER IT TAKES (WIT) - EMERGENCY PROGRAM$50,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JACKSON IN ACTION 83 FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%PARC CENTER FOR DISABILITIES: $10k → 12%READY FOR LIFE PINELLAS - READY FOR LIFE INC: $15k → 12%CREATIVE PINELLAS: $2k → 12%ST PETE FOOLS CHARITIES: $100k → 12%OUR CHILDREN HAVE RIGHTS: $24k → 12%THE YMCA OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG: $500k → 12%THE YMCA OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG: $500k → 12%THE YMCA OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG: $50k → 12%THE YMCA OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG: $26k → 12%THE YMCA OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG: $10k → 12%HANDS ACROSS THE BAY: $100k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of Speer Dream Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 83%.

Speer Dream Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 5 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
16

Total granted

$2.5M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+25%

Still filing today

80%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthReligionPublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +70%
  • KC
    KESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $833k · revenue +31%
  • TK
    The Kind Mouse Productions Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $110k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +110%
  • PC
    PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · 100% of their budget
  • BE
    BILL EDWARDS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $130k · revenue +40%
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
Pinellas Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
2
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc

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…

Health
3
St Petersburg Primary School Inc

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.

Education
4
Police and Kids Foundation Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
5
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc

Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)

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7
Worknet Pinellas Inc

The mission of careersource pinellas is to build the talent pipeline for today and the future by providing easy access to workforce solutions.

—
8
Tampa Bay Partnership Inc

The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.

—
9
Peer Support Coalition of Florida Inc

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)…

Education
10
Hps Helping People Succeed Inc

To empower individuals of all ages and abilities and their families through comprehensive intervention and disability services promoting growth and belonging.

Health
11
Child Protection Center Inc

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,…

Crime & Legal
12
St Petersburg Sailing Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ready for Life Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 52 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
14/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG INC: $1,086,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIO…St Pete Fools Charities Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesSt Pete Fools Charities IncJULIE WEINTRAUB'S HANDS ACROSS THE BAY INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesJULIE WEINTRAUB'S HANDS ACROSS …+5 more: $61,000 · Human ServicesKESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $833,000 · EducationKESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · EducationST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDAT…ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF ST PETERSBURG: $120,000 · EducationACADEMY PREP CENTER OF ST PET…SING OUT AND READ INC: $50,000 · Education+2 more: $20,000 · EducationST ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $119,000 · OtherST ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDAT…REACH SERVICES INC - REACH SL PETE: $100,000 · OtherREACH SERVICES INC - REACH SL…ST ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION LNC: $100,000 · OtherST ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDAT…WARRIOR SAILING - USMMA SAILING FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · OtherWARRIOR SAILING - USMMA SAILI…FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherREACH SERVICES INC - REACH ST PETE: $50,000 · OtherCOUNTRYSIDE CARES DBA HELPING HANDS: $50,000 · OtherCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherHANDS ACROSS THE BAY- JULIE WEINTRAUBS HANDS ACROSS THE BAY INC: $50,000 · OtherWHAT EVER IT TAKES (WIT) - EMERGENCY PROGRAM: $50,000 · OtherBILL EDWARDS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $130,000 · OtherBILL EDWARDS FOUNDATION FOR T…The Kind Mouse Productions Inc: $110,000 · OtherThe Kind Mouse Productions In…SAILFUTURE INC: $100,000 · OtherSAILFUTURE INCBIG CAT HABITAT EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $50,000 · Other+11 more: $211,000 · Other+11 moreHeroes of the St Pete Police and Fire Resue Inc: $410,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHeroes of …Tampa Bay Area Chiefs of Police Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTampa Bay …ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthRebekahs Angels Foundation Inc: $50,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $50,000 · HealthOrlando Health Foundation Inc: $30,000 · HealthThe Magic Yarn Project: $25,000 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthPINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentFLORIDA ELKS CHARITIES INC: $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentGLOBAL PRISON SEMINARIES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · ReligionLIGHTHOUSE MEDIA NA INC: $45,000 · ReligionLearning Empowered Inc: $20,000 · Religion
Human Services$1,347,000Education$1,273,000Other$1,295,000Public Safety & Disaster$435,000Health$215,000Youth Development$173,000Religion$165,000

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

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
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.

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 …Pinellas Community Fo…Vinik Family Foundati…Debartolo Family Foun…Speer FoundationFoundation for a Heal…United Way Suncoast I…White Family Foundati…Rays Baseball Foundat…Duke Energy FoundationFrancis and Gertrude …Suncoast Credit Union…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Speer Dream Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Speer Dream Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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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