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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.

$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$196kHealth$50kHuman Services$15kCommunity Improvement$9kArts & Culture$8kSocial Science$7kYouth Development$5kHousing & Shelter$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k49 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$750
Median grant
6
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLLISWOOD CENTER FRO REHAB & HEALTHCARE$13,350
FOREST HILL CARE AND REHAB CENTER$6,000
THE ENCLAVE$6,000
MASONIC CARE$5,700
ENRICHED HOUSING PROGRAM DIRECTOR NYFSC INC$3,600
Individual grant recipient$3,450
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY$3,000
HEATHERWOOD AT KINGS WAY$3,000
ROYAL HEALTH GROUP$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
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%LAKE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 11%NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES: $5k → 6%USS NANTUCKET: $2k → 7%HEATHERWOOD AT KINGS WAY: $5k → 8%COMFORT KEEPERS: $3k → 8%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $2k → 16%ROBERT TOIGO FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%THE ENCLAVE: $6k → 9%HOLLISWOOD CENTER FRO REHAB & HEALTHCARE: $13k → 13%WATERFORD ON THE BAY: $3k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $8k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $3k → 13%WALSH COLLEGE: $6k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT: $3k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $3k → 21%WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%WISCONSIN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC: $3k → 17%MASONIC CARE: $6k → 9%NC CEE: $8k → 8%ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $15k → 7%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $15k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $8k → 16%FOREST HILL CARE AND REHAB CENTER: $6k → 16%NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $4k → 6%ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENCES AT HANCOCK PARK: $5k → 7%HEATHERWOOD AT KINGS WAY: $3k → 8%CAPE HERITAGE: $3k → 8%THE OSBORN: $3k → 9%MICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $4k → 8%KANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $5k → 16%INDIANA UNIVERSITY EAST: $8k → 18%MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION: $2k → 6%ROYAL HEALTH GROUP: $3k → 7%ROYAL HEALTH NORWELL: $4k → 8%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $4k → 17%BAY PATH CENTER: $3k → 8%COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL: $2k → 17%ROYAL HEALTH: $7k → 8%COLUMBIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL: $2k → 17%NANTUCKET HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 8%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%SPAULDING REHABILITATION: $3k → 8%TOIGO FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ENRICHED HOUSING PROGRAM DIRECTOR NYFSC INC: $4k → 17%THIRWOOD PLACE: $3k → 8%YEAR UP NEW YORKNEW JEERSEY ORGANIZATION: $3k → 17%YEAR UP: $3k → 17%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

NH
WA
MT
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
AR
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$67k · 12 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
104

Total granted

$67k
$178k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+25%

Still filing today

42%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationSocial ScienceArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FU
    Fordham University
    3× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +47%
  • AC
    ARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT
    2× · 2017–2022 · $900 · revenue +81%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    2× · 2017–2019 · $900 · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +21%
  • NC
    NC CEE
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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3
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
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
7
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
8
Wheaton College

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…

Education
9
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
10
Northeastern University
Education
11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
12
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nantucket Community Sailing Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Indiana University School of Medicine: $22,500 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineHOLLISWOOD CENTER FRO REHAB & HEALTHCARE: $13,350 · Other+131 more: $221,700 · Other+131 moreROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationROGER WILLIAMS UNIV…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $12,450 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COL…Fordham University: $7,500 · EducationFordham UniversityWalsh College of Accountancy & Business Administration: $6,000 · EducationWalsh College of Ac…UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $4,800 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DETRO…YEAR UP INC: $3,150 · EducationYEAR UP INCROBERT A TOIGO FOUNDATION: $2,700 · Education+6 more: $3,600 · Education+6 moreKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $4,500 · Social ScienceWISCONSIN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC: $3,000 · Social ScienceVIRGINIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $1,050 · Social ScienceNEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $900 · Social ScienceGeorgia Council on Economic Education: $600 · Social ScienceALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $1,500 · Environment'SCONSET TRUST INC: $300 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $150 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $750 · PhilanthropySwim Across America Inc: $300 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $300 · PhilanthropyNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $1,200 · Youth DevelopmentARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC: $600 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $300 · Arts & CultureOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $150 · Arts & CultureLYNX EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $150 · Arts & Culture
Other$257,550Education$55,200Social Science$10,050Environment$1,950Philanthropy$1,350Youth Development$1,200Arts & Culture$1,200

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 budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $12,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWalsh College of Accountancy & Business Administration: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $4,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $4,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $3,750 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $3,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $3,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROBERT A TOIGO FOUNDATION: $2,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN: $2,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $2,250 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $1,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Council on Economic Education: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNHA PROPERTIES INC: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget'SCONSET TRUST INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT CENTER INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET CENTER FOR ELDER AFFAIRS INC: $150 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA SAFE PLACE INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALBERT F EGAN JR & DOROTHY H EGAN F: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST SIDE HOUSE INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNX EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Council for Economic …Ernst & Elfriede Fran…Cape Cod Five Cents S…Nancy Sayles Day Foun…Elizabeth Thayer & E …The Hajim Family Foun…Charina Foundation In…Mutual Bancorp Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Tupancy-Harris Fdn-19…Clara Foundation Inc
Community Foundation for Nantucket IncMA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Spread Wings Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spread Wings Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 162 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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