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Spm Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k132 grants · $348k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $371k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $218k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKIAH'S HOPE FOUNDATION | $118,000 |
| RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LIFELINE CONNECT | $50,000 |
| MY 180 YOUTH PROGRAM | $40,000 |
| AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| ST ANN'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $29,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $26,000 |
| UNITED AGAINST POVERTY | $25,000 |
| LIVING FAITH INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $20,500 |
| SYCAMORE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS | $20,000 |
| GOODWILL OF CENTRAL INDIANA | $20,000 |
| LAKE MAX ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| DEPAUW UNIVERSITY | $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 (FY20–24, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
162 repeat relationships — 128 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
- SSSycamore Schools Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +24%
- IRIndian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $123k · revenue +149%
DePauw University5× · 2020–2024 · $73k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- RIRestore7 Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +131%
- RFRILEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k
- FTFORD'S THEATERone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…
To gentle the journey through serious illness and loss with skill and compassion. to bring comfort by providing compassionate, professional care to community residents who are facing serious illness and loss. to provide dignity for the…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Makiah's Hope Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
127 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. 127 of the 232 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MAKIAH'S HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lifeline-Connect Inc ↗
- Who funds MY 180 YOUTH PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Sycamore Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds Indian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOORINGS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds Restore7 Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Suzuki Academy ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · Adventist Healthcare Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Pettit Family Charitable Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inc · World Bank Community Connections Fund
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 Spm Foundation Inc 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.
- Bethesda Cares Inc — 100% of income from government
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
- The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc — 19% of income from government
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- Rehoboth Art League Inc — 8% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Art League of Ocean City Inc — 6% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
- National Center for Children and Families — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.
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