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Spilker 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEO SANTA | $6,000 |
| HOUSE OF DREAMS | $3,000 |
| HAPPY WHEELS INC | $3,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $3,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
we are a small animal rescue. We help the community by assisting with vet care and rehoming animals they cannot keep. We also pull dogs cats kittens and puppies from local kill shelters when they run out of space, we provide those animals…
Prevention of cruelty to animals. the organization is focused on efforts to reduce the suffering of animals, focusing specifically on dogs. the organization attempts to reduce the pain, suffering, and cruelty of animals by rescuing animals…
We raise funds by selling donated goods. These funds benefit animal welfare efforts including the issuance of grants to501c3 non-profit organizations engaged in the rescue of animals from abuse, abandonment and neglect in SC. We also…
Provide loving care & home for approx 120 Feral Cats that are in danger out in streets/unadoptable. TNR projects for feral cat colonies around Horry County. Provide Vet & medication care for animals in-house.
Granting wishes to children of south carolina ages 3 to 18 life threatening illnesses
Dedicated to saving the lives of the homeless animals in Glynn County, GA. We will do this through fundraising, partnering with other organizations, leveraging resources, educating the public, and embracing and employing 'best practices'…
The purpose is to charitably assist patients and caregivers with costs associated with managing devastating illnesses; in addition to providing assistance to pet-oriented beneficiaries.
Carolina Cat Rescue's mission is to help the unwanted cats and kittens of North Carolina that end up at county shelters or are in need of rescue. We partner with no-kill reputable cat rescues in the Northeast and transport the cats there.…
To rescue and adopt boxer dogs
Mac's mission is a dog rescue organization focusing on special needs animals. the organization rescues animals that normally would be euthanized due to illness, injury, or birth defect. we obtain the necessary veterinarian services to…
Rescues dogs and puppies from high kill shelters and places them in foster homes until a permanent home is found.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Glenn Garcelon Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Project Hope Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 LEO SANTA ↗
- Who funds United Cajun Navy ↗
- Who funds CLANCYS DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF DREAMS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET ↗
- Who funds GLENN GARCELON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN ANIMAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITIES 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Spilker 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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