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Spellissy Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS | $10,000 |
| SCHOODIC INSTITUTE | $7,000 |
| MAINE AUDUBON SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| MANOMET INC | $5,000 |
| FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| STEWARDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $5,000 |
| GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $4,000 |
| WILD WHATCOM | $4,000 |
| UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA SCH OF VET MED | $2,500 |
| GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATIO | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of your 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 +51% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- MAMaine Audubon Society8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +200%
- TOThe Owls Head Transportation Museum6× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +122%
- SISCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK3× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +51%
Funded once
Philabundanceone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +0%- MHMIDCOAST HUMANEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +81%
- IIIsland Instituteone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -3%
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 program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The mission of the center is to instill a life-long respect and affection for nature in all people through research and education; to advance a scientific and public understanding of our coastal ecosystems and the need to protect them; and…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Promote the study and conservation of marine life and its habitat, defend the coast from harm, and empower others to do the same.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The new jersey audubon society is a privately supported, not-for-profit, statewide membership organization. (see schedule o for details).
Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manomet Inc and the most unlike its peers is The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 28 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 Maine Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Owls Head Transportation Museum ↗
- Who funds SCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds MANOMET INC ↗
- Who funds AVIAN HAVEN ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW SHEPARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MEGUNTICOOK WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST HUMANE ↗
- Who funds WILD WHATCOM ↗
- Who funds THE BIDEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY LEGACY FUND ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMASHSMARD INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Nature Conservancy · Amica Companies Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Spellissy 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.
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc — 26% of income from government
- Manomet Inc — 12% 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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