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Spread Wings Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k49 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLLISWOOD CENTER FRO REHAB & HEALTHCARE | $13,350 |
| THE ENCLAVE | $6,000 |
| FOREST HILL CARE AND REHAB CENTER | $6,000 |
| MASONIC CARE | $5,700 |
| ENRICHED HOUSING PROGRAM DIRECTOR NYFSC INC | $3,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,450 |
| ROYAL HEALTH GROUP | $3,000 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| HEATHERWOOD AT KINGS WAY | $3,000 |
| WATERFORD ON THE BAY | $2,550 |
| COLUMBIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL | $2,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,250 |
| THE RIVERSIDE | $2,250 |
| NANTUCKET HIGH SCHOOL | $2,100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 46% of your 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 +47% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 44 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, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- FUFordham University3× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +47%
- ACARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT2× · 2017–2022 · $900 · revenue +81%
- UOUniversity of Miami2× · 2017–2019 · $900 · revenue +96%
Funded once
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +21%- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXASone grant, 2017 · $8k
- NCNC CEEone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nantucket Community Sailing Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Albert F Egan Jr & Dorothy H Egan F. 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 54 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 162 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 ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds Walsh College of Accountancy & Business Administration ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT A TOIGO FOUNDATION ↗
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: Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Council for Economic Education · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Nancy Sayles Day Foundation · Elizabeth Thayer & E Geoffrey Verney Foundation · The Hajim Family Foundation · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Tupancy-Harris Fdn-1986 · Clara Foundation Inc
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 Spread Wings 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.
- Alzheimer's Family Caregiver Support Center Inc — 57% of income from government
- A Safe Place Inc — 45% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 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.