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Spring Dell 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.

$40k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 6
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$138k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Spring Dell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24
Crime & LegalPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementInternationalHealthEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$40k80%
FY20244$50k100%
FY20236$20k100%
FY20214$30k100%
FY20204$22kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$48kCivil Rights$32kFood & Nutrition$21kHealth$16kAnimals$13kInternational$12kHuman Services$10kHousing & Shelter$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
NY
MA
SD
PA
CA
CO
VA
DE
AZ
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($47k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Spring Dell Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFeeding America: $15,509 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Humane Education: $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSouthern Environmental Law Center: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConservation Lands Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Neighbors Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK WOMENS HEALTH PROJECT dba BLACK WOMENS HEALTH IMPERATIVE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNdn Collective Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc: $5,509 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Thumb Farm: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESOLVE Incorporated: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Virginia Alumni Association: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSistersong Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOutright International: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC11.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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How do I get to Spring Dell Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Spring Dell Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Spring Dell Foundation

How much does Spring Dell Foundation give?
Spring Dell Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $40,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Spring Dell Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (29%), Civil Rights (20%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
Who are Spring Dell Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Feeding America ($16k), Institute for Humane Education ($13k), Southern Environmental Law Center ($13k).
Does Spring Dell Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Spring Dell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Spring Dell Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Spring Dell Foundation based?
Spring Dell Foundation is based in PA.

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 22 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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