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Spur Local Inc

We work every day to create a stronger, more resilient dc region by expanding access for small nonprofits to knowledge, connections, and resources and engaging the local community.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$10kEmployment$10kHousing & Shelter$10kYouth Development$10kArts & Culture$10kHuman Services$5kCommunity Improvement$5kCrime & Legal$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $33,952 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,952 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$634k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DC MURALS SPECTACLE AND STORY$10,000
HAWAI'I COMMUNITY BAIL FUND$5,000
FIHANKARA AKOMA NTOASO$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $5k → 9%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.
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 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
The Women's Bakery Inc

The women's bakery is a social enterprise that empowers women through accredited training, employment, and social programming, and builds bakeries that sell high quality and affordable breads to east african communities.

International
2
Career Path Dc

Creating employability pathways for disadvantaged individuals with low to moderate skill sets

Employment
3
Baltimore Corps Inc

To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…

Employment
4
The Collective Blueprint

Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.

Employment
5
Community College Preparatory Academy Public Charter School

The mission of the community college preparatory academy public charter school is to provide the education and skills development to empower and prepare under-credited adults for postsecondary educational success, viable employment and…

Education
6
Capital District Women's Employment & Resource Center Inc

Women's success in the workplace program participants receive career counseling, computer skills, workforce preparation training job placement, and ongoing supportive follow-up. they leave the program with enhanced skills.

Employment
7
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven by three…

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8
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
9
Cobbworks Inc

To promote employment and education opportunities that strengthen the workforce and economic development in our community.

Employment
10
Community Services Agency of the Metropolitan Washington Council Afl-Cio

The mission of the community services agency (csa) is to improve the lives of workers and their families by meeting their human and social services needs; by building broad and diverse coalitions to promote and protect dignity and justice…

Community Improvement
11
Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corporation

Anne arundel workforce development corporation (aawdc) is a nonprofit organization that enhances the economic vitality of anne arundel county by developing and implementing workforce solutions. we build and maintain a pipeline of skilled…

Employment
12
Career Path Services Employment and Training

Career path services is a workforce development and human services nonprofit corporation.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calvary Women's Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hawaii Community Bail Fund. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
2/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DC MURALS SPECTACLE AND STORY: $10,000 · OtherDC MURALS SPECTACLE AND STORYUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $5,000 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEFihankra Akoma Ntoaso: $5,000 · OtherFihankra Akoma NtoasoDOG TAG INC: $5,000 · EmploymentDOG TAG INCURBAN ED INC: $5,000 · EmploymentURBAN ED INCBRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGES TO INDEPE…CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterCALVARY WOMEN'S S…Together We Bake: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMPUTER CORE INC: $5,000 · EducationHAWAII COMMUNITY BAIL FUND: $5,000 · Civil RightsCAPITAL AREA ASSET BUILDING CORPORATION: $5,000 · Community ImprovementARTPRENEURS INC: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$20,000Employment$10,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Human Services$5,000Education$5,000Civil Rights$5,000Community Improvement$5,000Youth Development$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOG TAG INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTogether We Bake: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPUTER CORE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetURBAN ED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCAPITAL AREA ASSET BUILDING CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFihankra Akoma Ntoaso: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetARTPRENEURS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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 Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…United Way of the Nat…Mightycause Charitabl…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Artpreneurs Inc: 18% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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