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Spout Foundation Inc

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.

$83k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$222kEducation$92kArts & Culture$58kPhilanthropy$51kYouth Development$42kRecreation & Sports$15k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION$75,000
HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING$5,000
VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NASHOBA LEARNING GROUP: $15k → 8%Special Equestrians: $70k → 6%Vista Life Innovations Inc: $5k → 12%RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 14%Ramapo for Children: $5k → 17%Big BrothersBig Sisters of Kansas: $5k → 16%HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $5k → 9%SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT: $5k → 12%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY FRIENDS: $27k → 11%CAMP THORPE: $3k → 12%McDonough Scholarship Fund: $8k → 7%Nashoba Learning Center: $5k → 8%Vista Life Innovations Inc: $5k → 12%RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 14%Ramapo for Children: $5k → 17%MarkArts: $33k → 16%HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $5k → 9%SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT: $3k → 12%Princeton University: $5k → 11%McDonough Scholarship Fund: $8k → 7%Nashoba Learning Center: $5k → 8%RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 14%Ramapo for Children: $5k → 17%High Hopes Therapeutic Riding: $5k → 9%SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT: $3k → 12%Princeton University: $5k → 11%McDonough Scholarship Fund: $5k → 7%NASHOBA LEARNING GROUP: $5k → 8%RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 14%HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $5k → 9%VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS: $5k → 12%NASHOBA LEARNING GROUP: $5k → 8%HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $5k → 9%VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS: $5k → 12%Nashoba Learning Center: $5k → 8%Princeton University Frds Triangle: $30k → 11%Princeton University Frds Triangle: $30k → 11%Princeton Charter Foundation: $11k → 11%Princeton Charter Foundation: $10k → 11%PRINCETON CHARTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%Princeton Charter Foundation: $10k → 11%PRINCETON CHARTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%Princeton University Frds Triangle: $5k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE TRIANGLE CLUB: $5k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE TRIANGLE CLUB: $5k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE TRIANGLE CLUB: $5k → 11%FRIENDS OF TIGER BAND: $5k → 11%PRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
KS
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$426k · 15 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
4

Total granted

$426k
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+123%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PP
    PRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2025 · $77k · revenue +241%
  • PC
    Princeton Charter Foundation Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $51k · revenue +810% · 28% of their budget
  • NL
    NASHOBA LEARNING GROUP INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • SE
    Special Equestrians Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue +123%
  • MA
    MARK ARTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue -16%
  • PU
    PRINCETON UNIVERSITY FRIENDS
    one grant, 2022 · $27k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

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2
Pegasus Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc

Our mission is to provide therapeutic exercise in various forms always emphasizing ability and maintaining an environment of respect and trust for our riders, volunteers and horses.

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3
Pine Cobble School Incorporated

Provide private school education for children from nursery school through grade 8

Education
4
Newgrange School of Princeton Inc

To empower people with learning disabilities to reach their full potential as educated and productive members of society

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5
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
6
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
7
Equest Center for Therapeutic Riding Inc

We improve quality of life through equine-based therapy to physically, mentally and socially/emotionally challenged individuals. Our unique program integrates academic, social and physical skills using the horse as a catalyst.

Health
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
9
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
10
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
12
Princeton Adult School

The princeton adult school, founded in 1939, offers life-long learning opportunities to residents of the greater princeton area. drawing on teaching resources from area educational institutions and a wealth of individual talent, we offer a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc; the most unlike its peers is Princeton Prospect Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Princeton University Frds Triangle: $65,100 · OtherPrinceton University Frds TriangleMCDONOUGH SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $47,100 · OtherMCDONOUGH SCHOLARSHIP FUNDPRINCETON UNIVERSITY FRIENDS: $27,400 · OtherPRINCETON UNIVERSITY FRIENDSHIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $27,000 · OtherHIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INCVISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC: $17,000 · OtherVISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INCNashoba Learning Center: $15,100 · OtherNashoba Learning CenterFRIENDS OF THE TRIANGLE CLUB: $15,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE TRIANGLE CLUBSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF TIGER BAND: $10,000 · OtherVista Life Innovations Inc: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherPRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION: $77,000 · EducationPRINCETON PROSPECT FOUN…NASHOBA LEARNING GROUP INC: $25,000 · EducationNASHOBA LEARNING GROUP …The Trustees of Princeton University: $15,200 · EducationThe Trustees of Princet…Special Equestrians Inc: $70,000 · Recreation & SportsSpecial Equestrians In…RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC: $37,100 · Recreation & SportsRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN IN…CAMP THORPE INC: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsPrinceton Charter Foundation Inc: $51,100 · PhilanthropyPrinceton …MARK ARTS INC: $33,334 · Arts & Culture
Other$248,700Education$117,200Recreation & Sports$111,600Philanthropy$51,100Arts & Culture$33,334

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION: $77,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSpecial Equestrians Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPrinceton Charter Foundation Inc: $51,100 over 5y, 28% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC: $37,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMARK ARTS INC: $33,334 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $27,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNASHOBA LEARNING GROUP INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $15,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP THORPE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
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 PRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Special Equestrians Inc ↗
  • Who funds Princeton Charter Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds MARK ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHOBA LEARNING GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP THORPE 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.

The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY12.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Spout Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spout Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Vista Life Innovations Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Nashoba Learning Group Inc: 18% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 12% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home