· Private foundation
Sperling Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k30 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALA HOLOCAUST ED CTR | $22,500 |
| MERCY FOR ANIMALS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AMERICA GIVES INC | $10,000 |
| INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| BHAM JEWISH FEDERATION | $6,000 |
| OSCHNER HEALTH | $5,000 |
| KIDS JOIN THE FIGHT | $5,000 |
| A'S AND ACES | $5,000 |
| TOURO SYNAGOGUE | $5,000 |
| SHATTERPROOF | $4,167 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,167 |
| CAN DO MS | $4,167 |
| HEARTS OF GOLD | $4,167 |
| GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT | $4,167 |
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 (FY22–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
31 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 13 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- INISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL7× · 2017–2023 · $253k · revenue +39%
- AIATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +23%
- ISINDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL5× · 2019–2024 · $69k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $31k
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +81%
- BHBHAM HOLOCAUST ED CTRone grant, 2021 · $11k
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.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
See schedule odedicated to rescuing, protecting and providing sanctuary for elephants worldwide. our founding directors and elephant care specialist consult internationally for the wellbeing of captive elephants. currently based in brazil,…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Animal equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
I am als exists to support and mobilize the als community for the purposes of improving quality of life, raising awareness, increasing funding for research and access, and identifying treatments and cures for als.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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 18 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 73 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 ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds AS & ACES ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER FARM SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Kanda Farm Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH HEROES ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Network for Animals USA 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: The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Shell USA Company 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 Sperling Family Charitable 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.
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% 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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