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The Spano Family Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$67kHealth$61kYouth Development$19kInternational$17kReligion$13kFood & Nutrition$3kEducation$1kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$481k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$7,500
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL BALTIMORE COUNCIL INC$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $3k → 12%COMMUNITY OPTIONS FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 11%GENEROSITY-GLOBAL INCORPORATED: $3k → 6%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $5k → 19%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $2k → 12%COMMUNITY OPTIONS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $3k → 19%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $2k → 12%COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC: $5k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $1k → 12%COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC: $2k → 11%FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC: $2k → 6%COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC: $2k → 11%FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC: $500 → 6%COMMUNITY OPTIONS FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 11%ALLAIRE COMM FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$147k · 9 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
18

Total granted

$147k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+85%

Still filing today

89%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +42%
  • DC
    Dr Clarence York Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $37k · revenue +156%
  • CS
    COLLIER SERVICES - SISTERS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
    5× · 2017–2021 · $18k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • SR
    ST ROSE OF LIMA PARISH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL BALTIMORE COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • TF
    TRINITAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -60%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Paul Place Specialists Inc

To provide specialty physician services to patients of mercy medical center.

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2
Southern Jersey Family Medical Centers Inc

Sjfmc is committed to improving lives by providing and promoting quality, innovative and responsive health care to individuals and families in a welcoming and compassionate manner, regardless of ability to pay.

Health
3
Humc Medical Observation Pa

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

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4
Jfk Medical Associates Pa

Jfk medical associates, p.a. is committed to excellence in providing quality and compassionate healthcare services to diverse communities.

Health
5
Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

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6
Hackensack Specialty Care Associates Pc

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

Health
7
Humc Cardiovascular Partners Pc

The organization provides high quality medical care to the community that it serves and specifically provides cardiology & related professional medical services in conjunction with hmh hospitals corp.

Health
8
Trinity Health of the Mid-Atlantic Region

We, trinity health of the mid-atlantic region and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health of the mid-atlantic is a member of…

Health
9
Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…

Health
10
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
Community Systems Inc

The organization's mission is to help persons with disabilities to find happiness in their own homes, in their personal relationships, and as contributing members of their community.

Human Services
12
The Community Hospice Inc

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the community hospice is a member of st. peter's health partners…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinitas Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Generosity-Global Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dr Clarence York Foundation: $36,600 · Human ServicesDr Clarence York FoundationCommunity Options Inc: $8,600 · Human ServicesCommunity Options IncST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INCPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $7,000 · Human ServicesPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTETHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL: $2,750 · Human ServicesGENEROSITY-GLOBAL INCORPORATED: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesCENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $48,500 · HealthCENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCTRINITAS FOUNDATION: $2,750 · HealthSPECIAL STRIDES INC: $2,500 · HealthHackensack Meridian Health Inc: $2,500 · HealthTHE ASHLEY LAUREN FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Health+4 more: $3,500 · Health+4 moreBRIDGE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $16,800 · OtherBRIDGE COMMUNITY CHUR…ST ROSE OF LIMA PARISH: $10,000 · OtherST ROSE OF LIMA PARIS…SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL BALTIMORE COUNCIL INC: $3,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT…SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL BALTIMORE COUNCIL INC: $3,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT…+3 more: $3,000 · Other+3 moreCOLLIER SERVICES - SISTERS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $17,500 · EducationCOLLIER SER…MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,275 · EducationMARINE CORP…OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $600 · PhilanthropyGIRL SCOUTS OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC: $500 · Youth DevelopmentLUNCH BREAK INC: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$66,450Health$62,250Other$35,800Education$18,775Philanthropy$600Youth Development$500Food & Nutrition$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $48,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDr Clarence York Foundation: $36,600 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCOLLIER SERVICES - SISTERS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Options Inc: $8,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITAS FOUNDATION: $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENEROSITY-GLOBAL INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSPECIAL STRIDES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHackensack Meridian Health Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASHLEY LAUREN FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSERENITY STABLES FROM COMBAT TO CALM: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJERSEY SHORE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND PARKINSONS RIDE: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUNCH BREAK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParker Family Health Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Oceanfirst FoundationManasquan Bank Charit…The Amboy FoundationThe Jay and Linda Gru…New Jersey Natural Ga…Investors Foundation …John Ben Snow Memoria…Columbia Bank Foundat…Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Pfizer Foundation…Community Foundation …The Robert Wood Johns…
Oceanfirst FoundationNJ21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Amboy Foundation · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Columbia Bank Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Robert Wood Johnson 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Spano Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Spano Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Lunch Break Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Collier Services - Sisters of the Good Shepherd: 3% of income from government
  • Special Strides Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Community Options Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Spano Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 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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