Massachusetts · Private foundation
Spero 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.
- $163k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $66,121
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 52% of the organizations Spero Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 32 | $163k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $107k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $71k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $57k | 61% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $59k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $129,559 | 5 | 0% |
| Woodstock Museum | $36,000 | 4 | 39% |
| Berklee College of Music Inc | $22,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research Inc | $12,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Bowdoin College | $11,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Human Genetics Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $8,165 | 1 | 0% |
| Pacer Center Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($142k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Spero Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About Spero Charitable Foundation
- How much does Spero Charitable Foundation give?
- Spero Charitable Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $163,081 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Spero Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Health (17%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are Spero Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Marine Toys for Tots Foundation ($130k), Woodstock Museum ($36k), Berklee College of Music Inc ($22k).
- Does Spero Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Spero Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Spero Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pledgeling Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Spero Charitable Foundation based?
- Spero Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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