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The James & Edith Spain 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.

$293k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2024
27
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 27
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$479k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations The James & Edith Spain Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
HealthFood & NutritionEducationInternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving29$291k10%
FY202327$245k22%
FY202226$50k19%
FY202126$50k27%
FY202020$50k10%
FY201921$50kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$132kInternational$113kHuman Services$89kHousing & Shelter$85kHealth$79kFood & Nutrition$66kArts & Culture$51kCivil Rights$37kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($82k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The James & Edith Spain Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Chicago: $115,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOpportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us: $79,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMarbridge Foundation Inc: $38,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $31,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMobile Loaves & Fishes Inc: $31,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGuatestar: $30,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc: $25,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLinc Inc: $25,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $23,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCape Fear Habitat for Humanity Inc: $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation Inc: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMulti-Assistance Center at Morgan's Wonderland: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pursuit of History Inc: $17,400 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetCommunity Health NFP: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACLU Foundation of Texas Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Habitat for Humanity Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCaritas of Austin: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWonders & Worries Inc: $8,300 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLiberty's Kitchen Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVolunteer Healthcare Clinic Inc: $7,900 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSwan Songs Musical Last Wishes: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParable Media Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of NC Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTurning Tables: $5,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOur Place Nashville: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA Safe Place Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

The Cynthia & George Mitchell FoundationTX19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · St David's Foundation · United Way Worldwide · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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.

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About The James & Edith Spain Foundation

How much does The James & Edith Spain Foundation give?
The James & Edith Spain Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $292,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 27 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The James & Edith Spain Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (18%), International (15%), Human Services (12%).
Who are The James & Edith Spain Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: University of Chicago ($115k), Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us ($79k), Marbridge Foundation Inc ($38k).
Does The James & Edith Spain Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The James & Edith Spain Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The James & Edith Spain Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation, St David's Foundation, United Way Worldwide.
Where is The James & Edith Spain Foundation based?
The James & Edith Spain Foundation is based in TX.

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 45 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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