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The Candy and Aaron Spelling Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$43k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$470kAnimals$83kArts & Culture$67kInternational$58kRecreation & Sports$43kPhilanthropy$26kHealth$24kHuman Services$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
$8,700
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARITABLE PLEDGES CLOSE OUT FOUNDATION$25,636
UCLA MEDICAL HOSPITALITY PROGRAM$8,700
SINAI TEMPLE$6,155
SHARE INC$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTRO DE NINOS INC: $5k → 14%CENTRO DE NINOS INC: $4k → 14%CENTRO DE NINO INC: $3k → 14%CENTRO DE NINO INC: $2k → 14%CENTRO DE NINO INC: $2k → 14%CENTRO DE NINO INC: $2k → 14%SHARE INC: $10k → 14%SHARE INC: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of The Candy and Aaron Spelling Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 45% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Candy and Aaron Spelling Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$252k · 9 repeat orgs$366k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$252k
$331k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+38%

Still filing today

78%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • AH
    AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $72k · revenue +120%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $43k · revenue +12%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES BALLET INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $281k · revenue +40%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ANIMAL LAW STUDIES
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • LB
    LA'S BESTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +29%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
3
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

5
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
6
Latino Corporate Directors Association

Lcda serves as an advocate and resource to corporate boards, search firms, private equity, and institutional investors interested in gaining access to exceptional latino board talent.

Education
7
California State University Los Angeles Alumni Association Inc

To foster relationships among alumni, students and community by providing services and activities that build loyalty, support and a lifelong connection to the university.

8
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.

Animals
9
Latino Corporate Directors Education Foundation

The latino corporate directors education foundation (lcdef) is the affiliated foundation of lcda. together with lcda, the foundation is committed to paving the way for the next generation of us corporate directors. its strategic priority…

Education
10
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…

Education
11
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La's Best and the most unlike its peers is American Humane Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $281,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYCHARITABLE PLEDGES CLOSE OUT FOUNDATION — $25,636 · OtherCHARITABLE PLEDGES CLOSE OUT FOUNDATIONTHE MUSIC CENTER — $17,500 · Other+10 more — $51,061 · Other+10 moreUCLA FOUNDATION — $175,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONLA'S BEST — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $4,006 · EducationAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $72,361 · AnimalsAMERICAN H…+1 more — $500 · AnimalsLOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL — $47,970 · InternationalLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION — $42,500 · Recreation & SportsLOS ANGELES BALLET INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $7,500 · Arts & CultureCENTRO DE NINOS INC — $15,500 · Human ServicesSHARE INC — $12,500 · Human Services
Other$375,197Education$189,006Animals$72,861International$47,970Recreation & Sports$42,500Arts & Culture$37,500Human Services$28,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $281,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $72,361 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL — $47,970 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION — $42,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES BALLET INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRO DE NINOS INC — $15,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSHARE INC — $12,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetLA'S BEST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE — $4,006 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWags and Walks — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERS IN FURTHERING EDUCATION INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES BALLET INC
  • Who funds CENTRO DE NINOS INC
  • Who funds SHARE INC
  • Who funds LA'S BEST
  • Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
  • Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS
  • Who funds Wags and Walks
  • Who funds LEADERS IN FURTHERING EDUCATION 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.

California Community FoundationCA14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Candy and Aaron Spelling 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • Lewis & Clark College2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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