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Spindler Family Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.4M
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
1
Organizations funded FY2020
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99% of Spindler Family Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Rochester Area Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Median grant, FY2020
$2,418,880
Largest grant, FY2020
$2,418,880
States reached, FY2020
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2020.

ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,418,880
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW YORK CHAPTER$15,000

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About Spindler Family Foundation

How much does Spindler Family Foundation give?
Spindler Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $2,433,880 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Spindler Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (99%), Environment (1%).
Does Spindler 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.
Where is Spindler Family Foundation based?
Spindler Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 2 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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