· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $264k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOCKOMOCK AREA YMCA | $80,000 |
| GROUNDWORKS ART LAB | $67,500 |
| LOCAL THEATER COMPANY | $66,200 |
| I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF BOULDER COUNTY | $50,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE | $37,000 |
| RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY | $25,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY | $22,000 |
| NEW HOPE | $15,000 |
| MARILYN RODMAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $12,500 |
| PROJECT BUILD | $12,000 |
| ATTLEBORO ARTS MUSEUM INC | $11,000 |
| MASS ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| JOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $904k) 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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- HYHOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $718k · revenue +95%
- LTLOCAL THEATER COMPANY4× · 2022–2025 · $158k · revenue +20%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE5× · 2020–2025 · $158k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- BCBOSTON COLLEGE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORKone grant, 2024 · $33k
Common Fence Pt Improvement Associationone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +7%- NNNAPLES NURSING ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
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.
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…
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
See schedule oprovidence college is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Doolittle Home Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 68 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 HOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC ↗
- Who funds I Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rodman For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds BE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARILYN RODMAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BUILD SWFL ↗
- Who funds Foxboro Discretionary FundInc ↗
- Who funds Common Fence Pt Improvement Association ↗
- Who funds ATTLEBORO MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE DOOLITTLE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES ZOO INC ↗
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: 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
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 Spier Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New Hope Inc — 73% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Mcphs University — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Attleboro Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 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.