· Private foundation
Spell Family Foundation co William Spell
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $420k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hellenic College - Holy Cross Greek Orthodox | $100,000 |
| Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago | $100,000 |
| The Hellenic Institute | $100,000 |
| ST MARYS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $61,833 |
| Laestadian Lutheran Church | $58,241 |
| St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church | $25,000 |
| St George Greek Orthodox | $22,250 |
| Friends of the Hogar Rafael Ayau | $11,500 |
| Fordham University-Orthodox Christian Studies Ctr | $10,000 |
| St Thomas More Play Group | $10,000 |
| SAE Minnesota Alpha Education Fund | $10,000 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America | $10,000 |
| CENTER OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT | $8,500 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | $7,400 |
| Greek Orthodox Church of St John the Baptist | $5,300 |
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 (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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
- COCenter of the American Experiment5× · 2020–2024 · $91k · revenue +34%
- FRFAITHTREE RESOURCES2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +25%
- STST THOMAS MORE PLAY GROUP INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- SMSt Mary's Greek Orthodox Churchone grant, 2020 · $73k
- TOThe Order of St Andrew Apostleone grant, 2020 · $28k
- DODormation of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Churchone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
The dynamic catholic mission is to re-energize the catholic church in america by developing world-class resources that inspire people to rediscover the genius of catholicism.
The institute on religion and public life is an interreligious, nonpartisan research and educational 501(c)(3) organization. the institute's mission is to articulate a governing consensus that supports: (see schedule o)- a religiously…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Word on fire catholic ministries is a global media apostolate that supports the work of bishop robert barron and reaches millons of individuals to draw them back to or into the catholic faith.
The University of Mary exists to serve the religious, academic and cultural needs of the people in this region and beyond.(Continued on Schedule O)
Conference
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
Orthodox Christian Coaching supports adaptive leadership practice through professional coaching for: Seminary graduates who are embarking on new ministries, priests and ministry leaders who have accepted new parish assignments, lay and…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
See schedule o.christians for biblical equality (cbe), www.cbeinternational.org, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization comprised of individuals, churches, colleges, seminaries, and organizations, representing more than 100 different…
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
Christian veterinary mission (cvm) serves to challenge, empower and facilitate veterinary professionals to serve others, living out their christian faith through long term missions, short term missions, professional ministry, affiliate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Edina Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Hogar Rafael Ayau. 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 24 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 28% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 55 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 Center of the American Experiment ↗
- Who funds Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FAITHTREE RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HOGAR RAFAEL AYAU ↗
- Who funds ST THOMAS MORE PLAY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds PASTORS STUDY ↗
- Who funds THE EDINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MADAGASCAR MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Orthodox Christian Laity ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds 30-DAYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH ↗
- Who funds RYAN HOUSE ↗
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: The Katsaros Family Foundation · Metropoulos Family Foundation · The John C Kulis Charitable Foundation · The James & Theodore Pedas Family Foundation Inc · Joannides Family Foundation · James and Virginia Kallins Foundation · Buhler Kapsalis Family Foundation · Orthodox Vision Foundation · The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation II · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · AbbVie 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 Spell Family Foundation co William Spell 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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