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Stephanie H & David a Spina Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$650k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$3.8MEducation$3.5MHealth$1.3MHuman Services$888kReligion$831kYouth Development$725kHousing & Shelter$585kPhilanthropy$503kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $600k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRESH START FURNITURE BANK: $60k → 8%FRESH START FURNITURE BANK: $50k → 8%FRESH START FURNITURE BANK: $50k → 8%FRESH START FURNITURE BANK: $50k → 8%FRESH START FURNITURE BANK: $50k → 8%FRESH START FURNITURE BANK: $50k → 8%FRESH START FURNITURE BANK: $25k → 8%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 22 repeat orgs$497k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
16

Total granted

$12M
$497k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+44%

Still filing today

77%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +120%
  • TW
    THE WILY NETWORK
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +74%
  • VV
    VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS
    5× · 2017–2021 · $510k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +161%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +44%
  • FI
    Flint Institute of Musicgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +122%
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
Western New England University

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…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Bentley University

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…

Education
4
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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5
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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6
Trustees of Boston College

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…

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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.

Health
9
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College

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…

Education
10
Winchester Hospital

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…

Health
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
The Trustees of the Smith College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pioneer Institute Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 40 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
26/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $3,795,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC: $300,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $270,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS…American Heart Association Inc: $255,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc+2 more: $105,000 · HealthMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HUMAN MEDICINE - FLINT: $866,927 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEG…ST ELIZABETH EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $827,000 · OtherST ELIZABETH EPISCOPAL CHURCHMORE THAN WORDS MTWYOUTH: $575,000 · OtherMORE THAN WORDS MTWYOUTHNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $475,000 · OtherNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INCNEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOMES FOR VETERANS: $445,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOMES FOR…+17 more: $339,000 · Other+17 moreTHE WILY NETWORK: $1,600,000 · EducationTHE WILY NETWORKFOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $265,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR MOTT COM…TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $260,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $225,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGECATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $185,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDA…+1 more: $15,000 · EducationUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $395,000 · PhilanthropyYOUTHPOWER365: $150,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY: $108,000 · PhilanthropyVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $510,000 · Housing & ShelterFRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC: $335,000 · Human ServicesVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $190,000 · Community Improvement
Health$4,725,000Other$3,527,927Education$2,550,000Philanthropy$653,000Housing & Shelter$510,000Human Services$335,000Community Improvement$190,000

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 budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $3,795,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WILY NETWORK: $1,600,000 over 8y, 8.4% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $510,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $475,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $395,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC: $335,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $270,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $265,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $260,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $255,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $225,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $190,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $185,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHPOWER365: $150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY: $108,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPOONFULS: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC: $26,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST: $26,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFlint Institute of Music: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetValley Area Agency on Aging: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PARMENTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTELLURIDE ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…The Williamson Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Cummings Foundation G…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Aetna Foundation IncThe Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Ayco Charitable F…AbbVie Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA19.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Stephanie H & David a Spina Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephanie H & David a Spina Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
7report 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 40 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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More from the funding graph

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