· Private foundation
Stephanie H & David a Spina Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $600k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WILY NETWORK | $650,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $500,000 |
| ST ELIZABETH EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $165,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HUMAN MEDICINE - FLINT | $145,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOMES FOR VETERANS | $115,000 |
| MORE THAN WORDS MTWYOUTH | $75,000 |
| FRESH START FURNITURE BANK | $50,000 |
| NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS | $40,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MASS BAY | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST | $25,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS | $25,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| FAMILY AID BOSTON | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $335k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +120%- TWTHE WILY NETWORK8× · 2018–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +74%
- VVVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS5× · 2017–2021 · $510k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- BIBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +157%
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +27%
- FIFlint Institute of Musicgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +122%
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Located in south hadley, massachusetts, mount holyoke college is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender-diverse and welcomes applications from female, transgender, and…
The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…
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…
Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pioneer Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 40 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 PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHPOWER365 ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Music ↗
- Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Valley Area Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds THE PARMENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Williamson Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation
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 Stephanie H & David a Spina Family 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.
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
- Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.