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Spielman Family 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.

$159k
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$436kHealth$372kReligion$284kArts & Culture$215kHuman Services$125kAnimals$109kPhilanthropy$48kInternational$38kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k56 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $91k
$800
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY$34,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL OF SAN DIEGO$21,697
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO$15,500
SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
GREAT NECK PUBLIC SCHOOLS$10,000
THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION$8,000
LAUGHING PONY RESCUE$5,500
SAN DIEGO AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM$5,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
USC SUZANNE DWORAK-PECK SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK$5,000
THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION$5,000
YOUTH ACTION MOVEMENT$3,040
LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN DIEGO$1,800
TEMPLE BETH-EL OF GREAT NECK$1,800
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$1,800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SECOND FAMILY: $1k → 11%PARTNERS THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP: $1k → 11%A BRIDGE FOR KIDS: $1k → 11%A BRIDGE FOR KIDS: $1k → 11%SBCS: $2k → 11%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $500 → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $500 → 17%IMPACT CUBED: $10k → 11%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $500 → 17%KINDNESS INITIATIVE: $2k → 11%KINDNESS INITIATIVE: $2k → 11%KINDNESS INITIATIVE: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 90 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

90 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
71

Total granted

$1.6M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+43%

Still filing today

60%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SD
    SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $274k · revenue +29%
  • TA
    THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $137k · revenue +63%
  • SH
    SCRIPPS HEALTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $109k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • SI
    SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY UCSD
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
  • IC
    IMPACT CUBED
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -80%
  • ND
    NYU DEPARTMENT OF OBGYN
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
4
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
5
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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6
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
7
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…

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8
Jewish Family Service of San Diego

Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.

Human Services
9
San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
11
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
12
San Diego Municipal Employees Assn

The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

111 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. 111 of the 184 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/111
Grantees still filing
85/111
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE EMANU EL OF SAN DIEGO: $170,013 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU EL OF SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO ZOO: $85,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO ZOOGREAT NECK PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $70,200 · OtherGREAT NECK PUBLIC SCHOOLSTEMPLE EMANU-EL OF NEW YORK: $65,391 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-EL OF NEW YORKNYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50,000 · OtherNYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINEUSC SUZANNE DWORAK-PECK SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $45,000 · OtherLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $44,800 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $32,400 · Other+116 more: $300,868 · Other+116 moreSAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY: $274,365 · EducationSAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADE…UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $29,250 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIO…THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $27,500 · EducationTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATI…+4 more: $11,600 · EducationSCRIPPS HEALTH: $109,000 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTHNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $101,800 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH…LAUGHING PONY RESCUE: $21,900 · HealthLAUGHING PONY RE…+16 more: $21,800 · Health+16 moreTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $136,800 · Arts & CultureTHEATER & ART…SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $58,500 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO AIR…+9 more: $8,730 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $14,760 · InternationalJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $10,250 · InternationalHIAS INC: $3,250 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,860 · InternationalTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC: $2,000 · International+7 more: $5,030 · InternationalIMPACT CUBED: $10,000 · Human ServicesKINDNESS INITIATIVE: $4,200 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2,500 · Human ServicesA BRIDGE FOR KIDS: $2,000 · Human ServicesSBCS CORPORATION: $1,500 · Human ServicesSECOND FAMILY INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP: $1,000 · Human ServicesEAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPE VILLAGE SAN DIEGO: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterHumble Design Inc: $2,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $50 · Housing & Shelter
Other$863,672Education$342,715Health$254,500Arts & Culture$204,030International$38,150Human Services$22,200Housing & Shelter$19,050

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY: $274,365 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $136,800 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $109,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $101,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $58,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $44,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $29,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLAUGHING PONY RESCUE: $21,900 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetEAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $14,760 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $10,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT CUBED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET: $7,025 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $6,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOCIATION: $6,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBELOIT COLLEGE: $4,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKINDNESS INITIATIVE: $4,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreensboro College: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $3,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN OF SAN DIEGO: $3,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Vision of Children: $3,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL COUNTIES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,860 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $2,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $2,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER International: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE VILLAGE SAN DIEGO: $2,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHumble Design Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA BRIDGE FOR KIDS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS WITHOUT LIMITS: $1,695 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSBCS CORPORATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Butterfly Project: $1,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $1,030 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKIND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAUGHING PONY RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds EAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT CUBED ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA 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.

Jewish Community Foun…The San Diego Foundat…The Cushman FoundationLeichtag FoundationSempra FoundationThe Parker FoundationThe Conrad Prebys Fou…David C Copley Founda…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Price Philanthropies …French Fund Samuel Ka…Isakow Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA40.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · Isakow Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Spielman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spielman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 184 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home