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The Grace Helen Spearman 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.

$956k
Granted FY2025still arriving
89
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2018–2025.

Health$1.8MHuman Services$1.8MArts & Culture$965kYouth Development$334kEducation$332kPhilanthropy$232kCivil Rights$228kAnimals$225kOther$0
02FY2025 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k58 grants · $259k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $632k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EISENHOWER HEALTH (MEDICAL CENTER)$64,000
DO THE RIGHT THING GREATER PALM SPRINGS$45,000
DAP HEALTH$45,000
THE JOSLYN CENTER$35,100
THE LIVING DESERT ZOO AND GARDENS$35,000
PALM SPRINGS CULTURAL CENTER$35,000
CATHEDRAL CITY SENIOR CENTER$35,000
THE DESERT SYMPHONY$30,100
THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER$30,000
AAP-FOOD SAMARITANS$30,000
VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY$25,500
CROWELL FAMILY YMCA (S PASADENA SAN MARINO YMCA)$25,000
PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM$24,200
FRIENDS OF PALM SPRINGS$20,200
CAMP LAUREL FOUNDATION$19,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $559k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOCIETY FOR DISABILITIES: $5k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 14%TEAM JOSEPH: $10k → 8%TEAM JOSEPH: $5k → 8%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%WHEELCHAIR DANCERS ORGANIZATION: $5k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%CATHEDRAL CENTER: $15k → 11%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%ANGEL VIEW INC: $10k → 11%ANGEL VIEW INC: $10k → 11%ACADAMY FOR GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATION: $5k → 14%ACADAMY FOR GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATION: $5k → 14%ANGEL VIEW INC: $10k → 11%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%ANGEL VIEW INC: $8k → 11%ANGEL VIEW INC: $5k → 11%SAFEHOUSE OF THE DESERT: $10k → 11%SAFEHOUSE OF THE DESERT: $8k → 11%SAFEHOUSE OF THE DESERT: $5k → 11%CAMP LAUREL FOUNDATION: $19k → 14%CAMP LAUREL FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $5k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN: $5k → 11%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES FKA JUNIOR BLIND: $5k → 14%THE JOSLYN CENTER: $35k → 11%JOSLYN SENIOR CENTER: $25k → 11%THE JOSLYN CENTER: $15k → 11%THE JOSLYN CENTER: $15k → 11%THE CATHEDRAL CENTER: $10k → 14%COVE COMMUNITIES SENIOR ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 14%ST ANNE MATERNITY HOME: $5k → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL AT DOLORES MISSION: $5k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL AT DOLORES MISSION: $5k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL AT DOLORES MISSION: $5k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $5k → 14%WE SPARK: $8k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $5k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $5k → 14%WEINGART EAST LOS ANGELES YMCA: $10k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.5M · 181 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

181 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2025, 114 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

181
188

Total granted

$5.5M
$994k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+27%

Still filing today

65%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther

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

  • DH
    DAP Health Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $348k · revenue +543%
  • MC
    MIZELL CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $193k · revenue +30%
  • SA
    SENIOR ADVOCATES OF THE DESERT
    8× · 2018–2025 · $107k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • JC
    JOSLYN CENTERCOVE COMMUNITIES SENIOR ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • LD
    LIVING DESERT AND ZOO
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPIC SOUTHERN
    one grant, 2018 · $20k

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
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
2
Community Housing Options Integrated Community Employment & Social Services

Provide Independent Living Services for persons with developmental disabilities who want to live, work and socialize in the community. Including housing, assistance in entering the workforce, shopping, adult education and other community…

Human Services
3
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
4
New Vista Ranch Inc

New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.

Human Services
5
Hillsides

We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. we envision a world in which children and young adults,…

Human Services
6
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
7
Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness

Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…

Human Services
8
Candela Group

The mission of the Candela Group is to bring stability and an improved quality of life to our clients and their loved ones affected by mental illness by uniting them with public and private mental health services Our lived experience as…

Health
9
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
10
Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter
11
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
12
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service

Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Laurel Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRegional Business ChambersUniversity Support Organiza…Jewish Community Organizati…Emergency Assistance & Food…Youth Support ServicesFamily Philanthropic Founda…Youth Sports and Activities…Senior Affordable HousingPerforming Arts Organizatio…Affordable Housing & Suppor…Child & Family ServicesAnimal Rescue and Rehabilit…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%3%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr9%25%35–55yr12%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%3%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr9%38%35–55yr12%15%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%8/241
the rest of the field
16%
12,705/80,223

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.

04the grantee network

225 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. 225 of the 393 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
210/225
Grantees still filing
149/225
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHEDRAL CITY SENIOR CENTER — $270,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL CITY SENIOR CENTERMIZELL CENTER — $192,600 · OtherMIZELL CENTERTHE JOSLYN CENTER (COVE COMMUNITY SENIOR ASSOCIATION — $155,000 · OtherUnited Way of the Desert — $135,000 · OtherTHE LGBT CENTER OF THE DESERT — $132,500 · OtherEISENHOWER HEALTH (MEDICAL CENTER) — $124,000 · OtherAIDS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND FOOD SAMARITANS — $121,000 · Other+110 more — $2,380,350 · Other+110 moreDAP Health Inc — $347,500 · HealthDAP Health IncAIDS Assistance Program — $100,000 · HealthAIDS Assistance P…Eisenhower Medical Center — $73,000 · HealthEisenhower Medica…ALZHEIMERS COACHELLA VALLEY — $59,500 · HealthALZHEIMERS COACHE…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $32,500 · Health+18 more — $297,000 · Health+18 moreSENIOR ADVOCATES OF THE DESERT — $106,500 · Human ServicesSENIOR ADVOC…Cove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center — $100,100 · Human ServicesCove Communi…Angel View Inc — $42,500 · Human ServicesAngel View I…Camp Laurel Foundation — $37,000 · Human ServicesCamp Laurel …OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC — $31,500 · Human ServicesCATHEDRAL CENTER — $25,000 · Human ServicesInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America — $24,500 · Human Services+19 more — $270,800 · Human Services+19 moreTHE FOUNDATION OF PALM SPRINGS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $50,500 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM — $42,700 · Arts & CultureNickerson-Rossi Dance — $42,300 · Arts & CultureMUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE — $34,500 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS WOMENS JAZZ AND BLUES ASSOCIATION INC — $31,500 · Arts & CultureMADE — $27,500 · Arts & CultureThe Other Side of the Hill Productions Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureDIGICOM LEARNING — $20,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Cultural Center Inc — $20,000 · Arts & CultureANGELES CHORALE — $17,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA DESERT CHORALE — $14,500 · Arts & CultureAcademy of Music for the Blind — $14,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $57,000 · Arts & CulturePalm Springs Cultural Center — $97,500 · EducationDO THE RIGHT THING GREATER PALM SPRINGS — $75,000 · EducationRead With Me Volunteer Programs — $23,000 · EducationONEFUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY — $18,000 · EducationTOOLS FOR TOMORROW INC — $15,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION — $12,000 · EducationHAMBURGER HOME — $10,500 · EducationSAMUEL A FRYER YAVNEH ACADEMY — $10,000 · EducationYeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles — $9,000 · EducationLAUREL FOUNDATION — $24,500 · PhilanthropyPABLOVE FOUNDATION INC — $21,000 · PhilanthropyTriumph Foundation — $19,000 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyInland Empire Community Foundation — $12,500 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyLIVING DESERT THE — $97,500 · Environment
Other$3,510,450Health$909,500Human Services$637,900Arts & Culture$397,000Education$270,000Philanthropy$102,000Environment$97,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDAP Health Inc — $347,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMIZELL CENTER — $192,600 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetUnited Way of the Desert — $135,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetSENIOR ADVOCATES OF THE DESERT — $106,500 over 8y, 23% of budgetCove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center — $100,100 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE DESERT SYMPHONY INC — $100,100 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetAIDS Assistance Program — $100,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE — $97,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPalm Springs Cultural Center — $97,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetDO THE RIGHT THING GREATER PALM SPRINGS — $75,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $73,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS COACHELLA VALLEY — $59,500 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetThe LGBT Sanctuary Palm Springs Inc CO Oak Grove Center — $55,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $52,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF PALM SPRINGS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $50,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE — $45,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM — $42,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D — $42,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAngel View Inc — $42,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNickerson-Rossi Dance — $42,300 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCamp Laurel Foundation — $37,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetADVOT — $35,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetMUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE — $34,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPALM SPRINGS WOMENS JAZZ AND BLUES ASSOCIATION INC — $31,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetOPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC — $31,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSOBER IN THE SUN INC — $30,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMADE — $27,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCARAVANSERAI PROJECT — $27,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Other Side of the Hill Productions Inc — $25,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetFriends of the Palm SpringsAnimal Shelter — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCATHEDRAL CENTER — $25,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCheck For a Lump — $25,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetSONGSHINE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetPIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America — $24,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES — $24,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLAUREL FOUNDATION — $24,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA — $23,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRead With Me Volunteer Programs — $23,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS — $23,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA PAWS RESCUE — $21,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPABLOVE FOUNDATION INC — $21,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBOO2BULLYING INC — $20,500 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetProyecto Pastoral — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 DAP Health Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIZELL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds United Way of the Desert ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR ADVOCATES OF THE DESERT ↗
  • Who funds Cove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center ↗
  • Who funds THE DESERT SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds AIDS Assistance Program ↗
  • Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
  • Who funds Palm Springs Cultural Center ↗
  • Who funds DO THE RIGHT THING GREATER PALM SPRINGS ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMERS COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds The LGBT Sanctuary Palm Springs Inc CO Oak Grove Center ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF PALM SPRINGS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
  • Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D ↗
  • Who funds Angel View Inc ↗
  • Who funds Nickerson-Rossi Dance ↗
  • Who funds Camp Laurel Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ADVOT ↗
  • Who funds MUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE ↗

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.

Inland Empire Communi…Bighorn Golf Club Cha…Regional Access Proje…HN and Frances C Berg…Anderson Childrens Fo…The Champions Volunte…The Auen FoundationThe Coeta and Donald …Western Wind Foundati…The Ahmanson Foundati…Houston Family Founda…The Rose Hills Founda…
Inland Empire Community FoundationCA108.1× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inland Empire Community Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Regional Access Project Foundation · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · The Auen Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Western Wind Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · The Rose Hills 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 Grace Helen Spearman 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    69report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 393 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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