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Spindrift 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $355k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BROTHERHOODSISTER SOL | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF ROCKIES | $25,000 |
| CONANICUT ISLAND SAILING FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| RAMAPO BERGEN ANIMAL REFUGE INC | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY INC | $25,000 |
| COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC (GROWNYC) | $20,000 |
| CHRISTODORA INC | $20,000 |
| HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING | $20,000 |
| ROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| SHARE FOOD PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| NEW YORK CARES | $15,000 |
| ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC | $15,000 |
| AFTER THE RACES | $15,000 |
| NY SUN WORKS | $15,000 |
| PONY POWER THERAPIES INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% 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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +34%- COCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $161k · revenue +58%
- TATHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $115k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- BFBUBBLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $22k
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +59%- PFPREP FOR PREPone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -28%
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.
Through our original curriculum design that uses innovative growing spaces on rooftop farms, in school gardens, and public parks - city growers fosters a love of nature and encourages nyc youth to consider their place, agency, and future…
Greater newark conservancy is a new jersey not-for-profit organization that expands access to healthy food, environmental education, and green spaces. we provide hands-on community programs that cultivate sustainability, inspire action,…
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Sweet farm is the world's first nonprofit sanctuary to address the devastating impact that factory farming has on climate change from the perspective of animals, plants, and the planet. we must first understand how these pieces are…
New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is True Mentors. 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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 34 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 THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CARES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SUN WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
- Who funds ROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Christodora Inc ↗
- Who funds CONANICUT ISLAND SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO-BERGEN ANIMAL REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds PONY POWER THERAPIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds AFTER THE RACES INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds SOLVING KIDS' CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS ↗
- Who funds True Mentors ↗
- Who funds Maternity Care Coalition ↗
- Who funds FUR BABIES RESCUE ↗
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: American Express Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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 Spindrift 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.
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% 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.
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