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Speer 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $496k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+8 grants · $6.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG | $3,000,000 |
| TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC | $505,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE | $500,000 |
| CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC | $450,000 |
| PRESIDENTIAL PRAYER TEAM INC | $400,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE MEDIA NA INC | $375,000 |
| NASHVILLE ZOO INC | $330,000 |
| PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC | $157,200 |
| TENNESSEE BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC | $150,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $150,000 |
| NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $150,000 |
| BELMONT COLLEGE OF LAW | $130,000 |
| FIFTY FORWARD | $125,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $10.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 15 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $966k 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 INC5× · 2020–2025 · $6.6M · revenue +121%
- NRNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION6× · 2020–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +2%
- TWTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +66%
Funded once
St Petersburg Free Clinic Incone grant, 2020 · $600k · revenue +3%- TRTHE REFUGE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $250k
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $154k · revenue +28%
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.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Habitat for humanity of williamson-maury (hfhwm) seeks to put god's love into action by partnering with communites to build affordable housing, inspiring hope and life-changing stability for families through homeownership.
Believing every individual has sacred value, we equip people to impact the world for good through the love of jesus christ.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.
Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
Bloodwater mission, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization registered in nashville, tennessee that operates an international nonprofit that partners with african community-driven organizations to end water and hiv/aids…
Okaloosa habitat for humanity is a non-profit, christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in okaloosa county. we provide opportunites for the community to show god's love in action. through partnership with people…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Practical Christianity Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
108 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. 108 of the 146 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 The Presidential Prayer Team ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds Practical Christianity Foundation ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds US INSTITUTE AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA HOUSE OF PINELLAS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Hope International Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds The Kind Mouse Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AGAINST ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OVERLAND MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CLINIC OF PASCO INC ↗
- Who funds KESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PRISON SEMINARIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds READY FOR LIFE 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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Carolyn Smith 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 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.
- Community Action Stops Abuse Inc — 13% of income from government
- Alpha House of Pinellas County Inc — 12% of income from government
- Greater Tampa Bay Area Council Inc Boy Scouts of America — 8% of income from government
- Youth and Family Alternatives Inc — 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Seaside Seabird Sanctuary — 0% of income from government
- The Kind Mouse Productions Inc — 0% of income from government
- Morton Plant Mease Health Care Inc — 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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