· Private foundation
The Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC | $25,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AND WELFARE FUND OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF HUNTER COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| AIM HIGH | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTHWESTERN OHIO | $20,000 |
| PROJECT AVARY | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CENTER | $15,000 |
| CANAL ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MARIN FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| A IS FOR AFRICA | $10,000 |
| FREESTORE - FOODBANK INC | $10,000 |
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, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc’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.
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.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TNTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK7× · 2019–2025 · $165k · revenue +102%
- SASCHOLARSHIP AND WELFARE FUND OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF HUNTER COLLEGE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $121k · revenue +4%
- LFLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $112k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- HCHUNTER COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $21k
- FCFAMILY & CHILDREN'S LAW CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +55%
- NTNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION THE WATERGATE OFFICE BUILDINGone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Dedicated to assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain and problems and moving them toward self-sufficiency and financial independence.
We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.
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We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…
Catholic charities of santa clara county serves and advocates for families and individuals in need, especially those living in poverty. rooted in gospel values, we work to create a more just and compassionate community in which people of…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aim High for High School and the most unlike its peers is A Is for Africa Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 21 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 THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AND WELFARE FUND OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF HUNTER COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio ↗
- Who funds PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH ↗
- Who funds A IS FOR AFRICA LTD ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% 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.