How much did SPELLER FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 93% of SPELLER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

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2021

healthfood bank

2022

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2023

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2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $18k
$10k–50k1 grant · $25k

$3,380

Median grant

States reached

$789k

Total assets

Largest grants

JEWISH FEDERATION OF$25,000
WEST END SYNAGOGUE$9,500
THE JEWISH TEMPLE$4,660
CONGREGATION SHAREE EMITH$3,380
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$500
NASHVILLE JEWISH OBSERVER$180
THE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOC NE$100
HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY$50

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $550) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$397k · 15 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$397k

$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+35%

Still filing today

40%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

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RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES
8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +32%
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +33%
US
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE
4× · 2018–2024 · $2k · revenue +31%

Funded once

UW
US WOMENS AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
one grant, 2018 · $2k
NZ
NASHVILLE ZOO
one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +23%
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THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY
one grant, 2019 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Lake Norman Charter School

Lake norman charter school prepares students to be community leaders demonstrating personal integrity with a life-long desire to learn, lead and serve.

Education

National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: to transform health care quality through measurement, transparency and accountability.

Health

Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio is a non-profit, non-commercial public media service. nashville public radio's mission is to create and deliver content essential to understanding your world.

Arts & Culture

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center ("VUMC") is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and…

Health

North Fork Valley Community

To provide comprehensive and affordable primary health care and related services

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Austin Trinity School

Our independent school provides an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment.

Education

University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education

Fielding Graduate University

Fielding provides doctoral, master's and graduate-level certificate programs in the fields of educational leadership, organization development, and psychology.

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Rowland Hall-St Mark's School

Independent school education

Education

Episcopal School of Nashville

The episcopal school of nashville, a diverse urban independent school, is dedicated to nurturing the joy of learning and the spirit of discovery in each of its students.

Education

Bosque School

Bosque School is a coeducational college preparatory school creating transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate…

Education

Nashville Public Television Inc

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities and the most unlike its peers is Vanderbilt University. 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

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

16/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$379,808Health$17,500Education$9,650Animals$1,500Food & Nutrition$650Human Services$550Philanthropy$500Community Improvement$110

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of MiddleTN16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle · Memorial Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Ge Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 organisation SPELLER 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RACH'S HOPE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +63% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 833361115 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on RACH'S HOPE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Speller Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Speller Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SPELLER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Speller Foundation?

More from the funding graph

SPELLER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Speller Foundation?

More from the funding graph