· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $66,121 |
| THE WOODSTOCK MUSEUM | $16,000 |
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $11,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| THE GEANCO FOUNDATION | $5,250 |
| RISE UP | $5,000 |
| HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| PLAYING FOR A FOUNDATION (FRANCES) | $4,500 |
| SALSA FOR THE SCHOOLS | $4,200 |
| PRIVATE SCHOOL VILLAGE | $3,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,685 |
| CORNELIA CONNELLY CENTER | $3,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE HEALTH | $3,000 |
| CLERGY BENEFIT TRUST | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 20 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +45%
- WMWOODSTOCK MUSEUM4× · 2021–2024 · $36k · revenue +28% · 39% of their budget
- BCBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC4× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- GAGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INCone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -11%
- TOTHE OAK SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $10k
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -29%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Whitehead institute forges new frontiers in science, uncovering insights today that unlock the potential of tomorrow. our advances in genetics and genomics are now enabling us to tackle the complexities of life with unprecedented depth and…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
How this is measured
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 83 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds GABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMAN GENETICS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEANCO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OAKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds TILLY'S LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Private School Village ↗
- Who funds THE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ANIMAL INTEREST ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Pledgeling Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fidelity Foundation · Greater Horizons · California Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Spero Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spero Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
- The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc: 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- The New Dance Complex Inc: 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
- Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
- Brooksby Village Inc: 0% of income from government
- Center for Human Genetics Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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