· Private foundation
Speyer Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $2,033 |
| NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE | $1,267 |
| WASHTENAW COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,267 |
| EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,267 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY INC | $1,014 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY INC | $1,014 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $930 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $930 |
| ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $509 |
| ST MARY'S CHAPEL | $509 |
| DETROIT PUBLIC TELEVISION | $341 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF WASHTENAW | $341 |
| HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC | $341 |
| ARBOR HOSPICE INC | $341 |
| THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $341 |
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 (FY20–23, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% 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.
38 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Northwestern University4× · 2020–2023 · $418k · revenue +33%- WCWASHTENAW COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $251k · revenue +134%
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $251k · revenue +45%
Funded once
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.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 54 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 40 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 Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds WASHTENAW COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Dawn Incorporated ↗
- Who funds AVALON NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Arbor Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CASA ROMERO RENEWAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
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: United Way of Washtenaw County · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Martin Family Foundation · United Charitable · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Edward F Redies Foundation Inc · Duffy 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 Speyer 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.