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Spelman College

Spelman College, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.

$31M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$814kHealth$441kScience & Tech$245kCommunity Improvement$60kEnvironment$13kPublic Benefit$6kSocial Science$5k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $262,114 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $30,501,853 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,239,739 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $242k
$17,648
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Maryland Eastern Shore$35,999
William Paterson University$34,213
University of Wisconsin$33,784
University of North Carolina at Pembroke$26,158
Clark Atlanta University$25,000
Morehouse College$25,000
University of North Texas$17,648
Virginia Commonwealth University$17,439
Morehouse School of Medicine$13,645
Institute for Future Intelligence Inc$12,688
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley$9,790
Georgia Tech Research Corporation$5,556
Emory University$5,194
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Institute for Future Intelligence: $64k → 8%Cal Poly Corporation: $29k → 12%California State University Stanislaus: $18k → 15%RESEARCH FDN OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NY: $18k → 17%St Mary's Univ of San Antonio: $5k → 16%Independence Heights Redevelopment Council: $6k → 16%Claflin UniversityNAAAHP: $18k → 25%Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community: $54k → 13%Board of Trustees of Michigan State: $67k → 16%Rhodes College: $12k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $36k → 11%WINSTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 15%University of North Carolina at Pembroke: $26k → 26%PLR CONSULTING: $45k → 8%Georgia Tech Research Corporation: $5k → 13%AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE: $15k → 14%CITY OF GRAMBLING: $6k → 32%Institute for Future Intelligence: $18k → 8%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $23k → 11%WINSTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 15%PLR CONSULTUNG: $45k → 8%WHOLISTIC STRESS CONTROL INSTITUTE INC: $239k → 13%AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE: $13k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR FUTURE INTELLIGENCE: $18k → 8%WHOLISTIC STRESS CONTROL INSTITUTE INC: $146k → 13%Emory University: $11k → 14%WHOLISTIC STRESS CONTROL INSTITUTE INC: $29k → 13%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $68k → 13%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $62k → 13%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $29k → 13%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $20k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

MI
NY
MA
CA
TN
NC
SC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 9 repeat orgs$572k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$1.0M
$358k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+5%

Still filing today

89%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthOther

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

  • WS
    WHOLISTIC STRESS CONTROL INSTITUTE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $414k · revenue +149% · 34% of their budget
  • MC
    MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +69%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR FUTURE INTELLIGENCE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $113k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • GS
    Georgia State University Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $69k · revenue +189%
  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $67k
  • AT
    ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE THE EATONVILLE COMMUNITY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $54k · revenue -6%

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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Spelman College

Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.

Education
7
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia State University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wholistic Stress Control Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr17%5%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr14%5%20–35yr9%40%35–55yr13%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr17%9%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr14%2%20–35yr9%52%35–55yr13%31%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
19%
10,947/58,268

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.

04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WHOLISTIC STRESS CONTROL INSTITUTE — $414,142 · OtherWHOLISTIC STRESS CONTROL INSTITUTEPLR CONSULTUNG — $90,000 · OtherPLR CONSULTUNGMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY — $67,360 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE THE EATONVILLE COMMUNITY INC — $54,060 · OtherASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE THE EATONVILLE COMMUNITY INCUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $35,999 · OtherWILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY — $34,213 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin Madison — $33,784 · Other+11 more — $154,345 · Other+11 moreMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $204,756 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGEINSTITUTE FOR FUTURE INTELLIGENCE INC — $112,841 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR FUTURE INTELLIGENCE INCGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $75,468 · EducationGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $69,455 · EducationGeorgia State University Foundation IncDUKE UNIVERSITY — $59,408 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYCAL POLY CORPORATION — $28,632 · EducationClark Atlanta University Inc — $25,000 · Education+7 more — $113,436 · Education+7 moreGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $10,927 · Health
Other$883,903Education$688,996Health$10,927

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWHOLISTIC STRESS CONTROL INSTITUTE — $414,142 over 3y, 34% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $204,756 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FUTURE INTELLIGENCE INC — $112,841 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $75,468 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $69,455 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $59,408 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE THE EATONVILLE COMMUNITY INC — $54,060 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCAL POLY CORPORATION — $28,632 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAgnes Scott College — $27,842 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY STANISLAUS FOUNDATION — $18,474 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $18,471 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY — $17,853 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $16,267 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $13,645 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRhodes College — $11,829 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $10,927 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION — $7,671 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's University — $5,474 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Northeastern Universi…Folds of Honor Founda…Tulsa Community Found…American Chemical Soc…National Collegiate A…American Heart Associ…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Northeastern UniversityMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northeastern University · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · American Chemical Society · National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Heart Association Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Spelman College 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Institute for Future Intelligence Inc — 15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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