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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 FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2019–2024.

Education$132kInternational$113kHuman Services$89kHousing & Shelter$85kHealth$79kFood & Nutrition$66kArts & Culture$51kCivil Rights$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$479k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$100,000
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL$50,000
MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION$13,000
PURSUIT OF HISTORY$12,000
GUATESTAR$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$9,000
JDRF INTERNATIONAL$7,500
KUT RADIO$5,000
ACLU FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC$5,000
MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES$5,000
VISTA CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED$5,000
AMERICAN BUSINESS HISTORY CENTER$5,000
MULTI-ASSISTANCE CENTER AT MORGAN'S WONDERLAND$5,000
FEEDING AMERICA$5,000
OUR PLACE$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SWAN SONGS: $5k → 10%SWAN SONGS: $3k → 10%WONDERS & WORRIES: $5k → 10%WONDERS & WORRIES: $3k → 10%WONDERS & WORRIES: $400 → 10%WONDERS & WORRIES: $400 → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $14k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $13k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%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

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$717k · 36 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
5

Total granted

$717k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+183%

Still filing today

81%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • University of Chicago
    3× · 2022–2024 · $115k · revenue +22%
  • MF
    MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue +23%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $32k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • NS
    NASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +67%
  • OP
    OUR PLACE
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • OP
    OUR PLACE NASHVILLEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +183%

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
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
2
Habitat for Humanity Inc

Habitat seeks to eliminate poverty housing from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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3
Opportunity Partners

Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…

Employment
4
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
5
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
6
Pact Institute

Pact institute works to achieve strategic objectives that improve the lives of people around the world who are poor and marginalized through innovation, the exploration of new approaches and partnerships, and funding diversification. it is…

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7
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
8
Patient Access Network Foundation

As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…

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9
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
10
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
11
Habitat for Humanity of Wake County Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity of wake county brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

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12
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity International Inc D/B/a Opportunity International-Us and the most unlike its peers is Turning Tables. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Health Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Food Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Construc…
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,530

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

34 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. 34 of the 45 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
28/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KUT RADIO — $19,000 · OtherKUT RADIOAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTH CAROLINA LEGAL FOUNDATION INC — $18,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NOR…UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARY — $16,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARYOUR PLACE — $15,000 · OtherOUR PLACEAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $15,000 · OtherAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCTHEATER NETWORK OF WILMINGTON INC — $14,500 · OtherTHEATER NETWORK OF WILMINGTON INCCARITAS OF AUSTIN — $14,000 · OtherCARITAS OF AUSTINAMERICAN BUSINESS HISTORY CENTER — $12,400 · OtherSONOMA FAMILY MEAL PROGRAM — $8,500 · OtherCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $15,000 · OtherCentral Texas Food Bank IncFeeding America — $10,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $23,500 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORAT…THE PURSUIT OF HISTORY INC — $17,400 · OtherTHE PURSUIT OF HISTORY INCACLU Foundation of Texas Inc — $16,000 · OtherACLU Foundation of Texas Inc+10 more — $31,400 · Other+10 moreOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US — $79,000 · InternationalOPPORTUNITY INTERN…GUATESTAR — $30,000 · InternationalGUATESTARTURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC — $12,000 · InternationalTURKISH PHILANTHRO…+1 more — $4,000 · InternationalUniversity of Chicago — $115,000 · EducationUniversity of Chic…LIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC — $8,000 · EducationLIBERTY'S KITCHEN …PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $31,500 · HealthPLANNED PARE…MULTI-ASSISTANCE CENTER AT MORGAN'S WONDERLAND — $17,500 · HealthMULTI-ASSIST…Community Health NFP — $16,500 · HealthCommunity He…Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired — $10,000 · HealthVista Center…BREAKTHROUGH T1D — $7,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH…MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC — $38,000 · Human ServicesMARBRIDGE F…LINC INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesLINC INCWonders & Worries Inc — $8,300 · Human ServicesWonders & W…Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes — $7,500 · Human ServicesSwan Songs …Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc — $25,500 · Housing & ShelterCAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $20,500 · Housing & ShelterHabitat for Humanity of NC Inc — $6,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $1,000 · Housing & ShelterMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $31,000 · ReligionPARABLE MEDIA INC — $7,000 · Religion
Other$246,200International$125,000Education$123,000Health$83,000Human Services$78,800Housing & Shelter$53,000Religion$38,000

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 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 budgetAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN — $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwan Songs Musical Last Wishes — $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% 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 budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR PLACE NASHVILLE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA Safe Place Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

The Cynthia & George …St David's FoundationUnited Way WorldwideUnited Way of the Cap…New Hanover Community…Austin Community Foun…North Carolina Commun…Raymond James Charita…Duke Energy FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Shell USA Company Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
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

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 James & Edith Spain 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 · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 45 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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