· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY | $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 |
| JOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MASS ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $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 its grants land in higher-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 +17% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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%- RURASMUSSEN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
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.
How this is measured
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds ATTLEBORO MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOOLITTLE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NAPLES ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Spier Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spier Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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