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The Adam Paul Spizz Memorial 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.

$9k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$12kHealth$8kEducation$4kHuman Services$4kPhilanthropy$323Recreation & Sports$240Environment$113International$36Other$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$540
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHABAD OF LONG ISLAND$8,332
COPE$540
NYU LANGONE$450
GUY M STEAWART CANCER FOUNDATION$35
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ABILITYPLUS: $20 → 7%THE COPE FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%THE COPE FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%THE COPE FOUNDATION: $609 → 7%THE COPE FOUNDATION: $480 → 7%THE COPE FOUNDATION: $426 → 7%THE COPE FOUNDATION: $403 → 7%UNITED VETERANS BEACON HOUSE: $20 → 7%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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21k · 16 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
28

Total granted

$21k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+31%

Still filing today

6%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyScience & TechReligionAnimalsOther
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

  • NL
    NYU LANGONE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $4k
  • CF
    COPE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +71%
  • NW
    NYU WINTHROP HOSPITAL
    2× · 2019–2020 · $4k

Funded once

  • TS
    TEMPLE SINAI OF ROSLYN
    one grant, 2021 · $500
  • TJ
    TRADER JOE'S (CANCER CENTER FOR KIDS)
    one grant, 2021 · $364
  • CC
    CHAI CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $288
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
National Jewish Health

National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…

Health
2
Vassar Brothers Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
3
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
4
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…

Health
5
Newyork-Presbyterianqueens

To be the premier healthcare institution serving our greater community by providing excellence in clinical care and patient safety, education, clinical research, and service.

Health
6
Maimonides Medical Center

Maimonides medical center is dedicated to fostering healthy communities. we provide high quality, compassionate patient care and comprehensive community services. as a premier academic medical center, we are devoted to educating health…

Health
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
Brookhaven Health Care Services Corp

The goals and objectives of the foundation are as follows:to support the mission and charitable purposes of nyulhs, nyu langone hospitals ("nyulh"), lich and the medical schools owned and operated by new york university (collectively, "nyu…

Health
9
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
Jersey City Medical Center

The organization's mission is to offer healthcare services with compassion and dignity. the organization provides patients, their families and all in need, excellence in hospital and healthcare services and programs to enhance community…

Health
12
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Holiday Heroes Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cope Foundation Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 46 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHABAD OF LONG ISLAND: $8,332 · OtherCHABAD OF LONG ISLANDNYU LANGONE: $4,359 · OtherNYU LANGONENYU WINTHROP HOSPITAL: $3,774 · OtherNYU WINTHROP HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient: $2,757 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCANCER CENTER FOR KIDS: $1,714 · OtherCANCER CENTER FOR KIDSDIX HILLS JEWISH CHAI CENTER: $1,386 · OtherGUY M STEAWART CANCER FOUNDATION: $949 · Other+28 more: $4,458 · Other+28 moreCOPE FOUNDATION INC: $4,138 · Human ServicesCOPE FOUNDATIO…+2 more: $40 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC: $118 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $25 · PhilanthropyTHE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC: $54 · HealthMEDICAL MISSION INTERNATIONAL INC: $36 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $18 · HealthMEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CULTURE: $36 · ReligionANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $18 · AnimalsFOREVER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $18 · Science & Tech
Other$27,729Human Services$4,178Philanthropy$143Health$108Religion$36Animals$18Science & Tech$18

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 budgetCOPE FOUNDATION INC: $4,138 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNYU WINTHROP HOSPITAL: $3,774 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC: $118 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC: $54 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL MISSION INTERNATIONAL INC: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CULTURE: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABILITYPLUS INC: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Veterans Beacon House Inc: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $18 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $18 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREVER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $18 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 COPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NYU WINTHROP HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL MISSION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CULTURE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds ABILITYPLUS INC ↗
  • Who funds United Veterans Beacon House 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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The Adam Paul Spizz Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Adam Paul Spizz Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 46 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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