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Spur Impact Association

To be the premier hub developing, engaging, and inspiring tomorrow's leaders by fostering connections with people, nonprofits, and businesses to promote growth personally, professionally, and philanthropically.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
69%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.7M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$27,367
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,548,056
Organizations funded a year
1 to 13
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$267k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 69% of the organizations Spur Impact Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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
FY2024still arriving8$1.7M13%
FY202313$1.6M69%
FY20227$1.3M71%
FY20214$1.3M75%
FY20201$48kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$5.5MEducation$131kHuman Services$131kHousing & Shelter$124kAnimals$87kHealth$16kRecreation & Sports$14kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Spur Impact Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Delaware: $5,409,704 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetCode Purple Kent County Delaware Inc: $115,426 over 1y, 40% of budgetShepherds Office Inc: $106,212 over 3y, 39% of budgetSam's Kids Fund F/K/A the Delaware Kids Fund: $81,534 over 4y, 19% of budgetRotary Club of Wilmington Services Foundation: $62,362 over 2y, 19% of budgetHumane Animal Partners: $46,496 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGoldey-Beacom College: $21,929 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Bike Project of Wilmington Inc: $21,781 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetChristmas Shop Foundation Inc: $18,410 over 1y, 12% of budgetStrive How You Lead Matters Inc: $13,502 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetRoofs From the Heart: $9,027 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetDelaware Hospice Inc: $6,662 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ministry of Caring Inc: $6,163 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetForgotten Cats Inc: $6,010 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetServiam Girls Academy Inc: $5,571 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDelaware Community Reinvestment Action Council Inc: $5,284 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDelaware Institute for the Arts in Educa: $5,120 over 1y, 1.5% 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 17.

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.

Delaware Community Foundation IncDE31.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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.

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About Spur Impact Association

How much does Spur Impact Association give?
Spur Impact Association reported 8 itemized grants totaling $1,720,483, out of $1,809,782 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Spur Impact Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (91%), Education (2%), Human Services (2%).
Who are Spur Impact Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: United Way of Delaware ($5.4M), Code Purple Kent County Delaware Inc ($115k), Shepherds Office Inc ($106k).
Does Spur Impact Association fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Spur Impact Association?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Longwood Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is Spur Impact Association based?
Spur Impact Association is based in DE.

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 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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