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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.

$8.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$11MReligion$9.8MHealth$5.5MHousing & Shelter$4.8MArts & Culture$4.4MEducation$2.6MAnimals$1.6MEnvironment$1.5MOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $496k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+8 grants · $6.1M
$40,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$141M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG$3,000,000
TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC$505,000
CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC$500,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE$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
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$150,000
TENNESSEE BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC$150,000
NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION$150,000
BELMONT COLLEGE OF LAW$130,000
FIFTY FORWARD$125,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Precious Life Shelter Inc: $30k → 10%OVERLAND MISSIONS INC: $140k → 10%ST PETE FOOLS CHARITIES INC: $25k → 12%US Institute Against Human Trafficking: $250k → 13%PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER INC: $30k → 10%OVERLAND MISSIONS INC: $87k → 10%PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER INC: $30k → 10%Overland Missions Inc: $82k → 10%Precious Life Shelter Inc: $30k → 10%Overland Missions Inc: $62k → 10%OVERLAND MISSIONS INC: $60k → 10%Youth and Family Alternative: $25k → 11%OVERLAND MISSIONS INC: $42k → 10%HOPE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $175k → 13%HOPE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $157k → 13%Ready for Life Inc: $150k → 12%Hope International Ministries Inc: $110k → 13%HOPE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $100k → 13%Ready for Life Inc: $115k → 12%HOPE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $65k → 13%Hope International Ministries Inc: $50k → 13%Arc Tampa Bay Foundation Inc: $20k → 12%TRINITY COMMUNITY COMMONS: $25k → 14%Julie Weintraub's Hands Across the Bay: $50k → 12%JULIE WEINTRAUB'S HANDS ACROSS THE BAY: $50k → 12%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG: $3.0M → 12%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG: $2.0M → 12%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG: $1.5M → 12%ALPHA HOUSE OF PINELLAS COUNTY INC: $200k → 12%Alpha House of Pinellas County Inc: $200k → 12%ALPHA HOUSE OF PINELLAS COUNTY INC: $200k → 12%Alpha House of Pinellas County Inc: $100k → 12%CROSSROADS CAMPUS THE: $150k → 14%YMCA of Greater St Petersburg: $50k → 12%CROSSROADS CAMPUS THE: $150k → 14%Young Mens Christian Assoc of Greater St Peters: $50k → 12%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $40k → 14%WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER: $53k → 14%WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER: $50k → 14%MOTHER TO MOTHER: $25k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $250k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $250k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $125k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $100k → 14%ROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TN: $50k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TN: $25k → 14%THE SHELBY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%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
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42M · 81 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
47

Total granted

$42M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+2%

Still filing today

77%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $966k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
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
    5× · 2020–2025 · $6.6M · revenue +121%
  • NR
    NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +2%
  • TW
    TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $600k · revenue +3%
  • TR
    THE REFUGE CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $154k · revenue +28%
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
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Habitat for Humanity Williamson -Maury

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.

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3
The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc

Believing every individual has sacred value, we equip people to impact the world for good through the love of jesus christ.

Human Services
4
Methodist Medical Center

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.

Health
5
Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc

Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
6
The Methodist Hospital Foundation

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…

Health
7
Time of Grace Ministry

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…

Religion
8
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Covenant Hospital Hobbs

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.

Health
10
Bloodwater Mission Inc

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…

Religion
11
Habitat for Humanity of Okaloosa County Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; 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.
04the grantee network

108 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. 108 of the 146 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/108
Grantees still filing
69/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lighthouse Media NA Inc: $3,685,000 · OtherLighthouse Media NA IncCHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC: $1,913,000 · OtherCHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INCLife Equip Inc: $950,000 · OtherSAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATIONS: $800,000 · OtherHIGH HOPES INC: $730,000 · OtherFirst Baptist Church of Elfers: $725,000 · OtherTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC: $1,532,500 · OtherTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC+69 more: $9,719,818 · Other+69 moreYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG INC: $6,600,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCI…US INSTITUTE AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING INC: $875,000 · Human ServicesUS INSTITUTE AGAINST HUMAN …ALPHA HOUSE OF PINELLAS COUNTY INC: $700,000 · Human ServicesALPHA HOUSE OF PINELLAS COU…Hope International Ministries Inc: $656,800 · Human ServicesHope International Ministri…OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $600,000 · Human ServicesOVERLAND MISSIONS INC: $473,000 · Human Services+18 more: $1,467,500 · Human Services+18 moreThe Presidential Prayer Team: $2,892,000 · ReligionThe Presiden…Practical Christianity Foundation: $1,180,000 · ReligionPractical Ch…GLOBAL PRISON SEMINARIES FOUNDATION: $350,000 · ReligionGLOBAL PRISO…NASHVILLE ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION: $300,879 · ReligionNASHVILLE AN…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $250,000 · Religion+5 more: $180,000 · ReligionCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CLINIC OF PASCO INC: $450,000 · HealthThe Heimerdinger Foundation Inc: $200,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $200,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $175,000 · HealthRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $150,000 · HealthSCOTT HAMILTON CARES FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · HealthINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $125,000 · HealthMORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Health+6 more: $311,000 · HealthNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $2,600,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $154,000 · Housing & ShelterTRINITY COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC: $717,000 · EducationTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $500,000 · EducationKESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $385,000 · EducationCREATION FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 · EducationST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · EducationCAIRN UNIVERSITY: $112,500 · EducationPRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES: $110,000 · EducationOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationLOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $90,000 · EducationTHE USMMA SAILING FOUNDATION INC: $87,500 · Education+2 more: $105,000 · EducationNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $1,350,000 · AnimalsBIG CAT HABITAT EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $100,000 · AnimalsTENNESSEE WILDLIFE RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC: $87,500 · Animals+2 more: $30,000 · Animals
Other$20,055,318Human Services$11,372,300Religion$5,152,879Health$2,861,000Housing & Shelter$2,754,000Education$2,467,000Animals$1,567,500

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 budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG INC: $6,600,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetThe Presidential Prayer Team: $2,892,000 over 6y, 56% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $2,600,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC: $1,532,500 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $1,350,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPractical Christianity Foundation: $1,180,000 over 6y, 98% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUS INSTITUTE AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING INC: $875,000 over 4y, 83% of budgetSAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATIONS: $800,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetHIGH HOPES INC: $730,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC: $717,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetALPHA HOUSE OF PINELLAS COUNTY INC: $700,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetTHE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA: $660,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetHope International Ministries Inc: $656,800 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetThe Kind Mouse Productions Inc: $625,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetOPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $600,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc: $600,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $515,000 over 6y, 41% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE: $500,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $500,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetANGELS AGAINST ABUSE INC: $500,000 over 3y, 49% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $500,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOVERLAND MISSIONS INC: $473,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CLINIC OF PASCO INC: $450,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetKESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $385,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL PRISON SEMINARIES FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTEAM HAITI INC: $350,000 over 4y, 87% of budgetNASHVILLE ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION: $300,879 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $300,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetREADY FOR LIFE INC: $265,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heimerdinger Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $153,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSCOTT HAMILTON CARES FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $140,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCREATION FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $125,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $125,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMISSION CHALLENGE: $120,000 over 6y, 48% of budgetPRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER INC: $120,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC: $118,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCAIRN UNIVERSITY: $112,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES: $110,000 over 2y, 4.1% 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.

  • 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 OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ANGELS AGAINST ABUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
  • Who funds OVERLAND MISSIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CLINIC OF PASCO INC ↗
  • Who funds KESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL PRISON SEMINARIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEAM HAITI INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
  • Who funds READY FOR LIFE INC ↗

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.

Hca Healthcare Founda…Memorial Foundation I…The Community Foundat…The Frist FoundationUnited Way of Middle …Dorothy Cate and Thom…Nashville Predators F…Joe C Davis FoundationCommunity Foundation …Dettwiller FoundationThe Healing Trust For…Carolyn Smith Foundat…
Hca Healthcare FoundationTN59.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Speer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Speer 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 146 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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$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