Massachusetts · Private foundation
Spier Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $561k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Spier Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 40 | $560k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $512k | 34% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $581k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $634k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $415k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $591k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hockomock Young Men's Christian Association Inc | $717,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Local Theater Company | $158,300 | 4 | 15% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $157,666 | 5 | 0% |
| Groundworks Art Lab Inc | $110,500 | 2 | 2% |
| I Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County | $110,000 | 3 | 1% |
| New Hope Inc | $100,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Nch Healthcare System Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Rise Above Foundation Inc | $71,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Joe Andruzzi Foundation Inc | $65,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rodman For Kids Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Spier Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Mansfield Community Charitable Foundation Inc · Bluestone Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · F Thomas & Patricia D Westcott Foundation · Community Health Systems Inc · Sensata Technologies Foundation Inc · Metrowest Health Foundation Inc · The Harborone Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Spier Family Foundation
- How much does Spier Family Foundation give?
- Spier Family Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $561,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Spier Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Human Services (27%), Education (13%).
- Who are Spier Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hockomock Young Men's Christian Association Inc ($718k), Local Theater Company ($158k), Trustees of Boston College ($158k).
- Does Spier Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Spier Family 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 Spier Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mansfield Community Charitable Foundation Inc, Bluestone Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Spier Family Foundation based?
- Spier Family Foundation is based in MA.
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