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The Spearman Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Spearman 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.

$36k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0178% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$142kPhilanthropy$34kArts & Culture$27kReligion$25kCrime & Legal$20kYouth Development$10kHealth$6kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$23,912
FSU FOUNDATION$10,000
SCOTT CENTER FOR AUTISM$2,500
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 (FY24–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FL: $4k → 19%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 9 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +168% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$1.1M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+168%
+3%

Still filing today

44%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    9× · 2017–2025 · $803k
  • The Florida State University Foundation Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $129k · revenue +177%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2018–2019 · $53k

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • K1
    KIDZ 1ST FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • BF
    BCC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $803,347 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $52,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY OF BREVARD COUNTY INC: $33,750 · Other+16 more: $87,300 · Other+16 moreThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $129,221 · EducationThe Florida …Lauren's Kids Inc: $14,500 · Crime & LegalINNOCENCE PROJECT OF FLORIDA INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalTHE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S HUNGER PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL BREVARD HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $250 · Animals
Other$977,147Education$129,221Crime & Legal$19,500Human Services$3,500Food & Nutrition$1,000Animals$250

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $129,221 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BREVARD COUNTY INC: $33,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLauren's Kids Inc: $14,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINNOCENCE PROJECT OF FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HUNGER PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL BREVARD HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF BREVARD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Lauren's Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds INNOCENCE PROJECT OF FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HUNGER PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL BREVARD HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗

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.

American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Spearman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Spearman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Innocence Project of Florida Inc: 30% of income from government
  • United Way of Brevard County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lauren's Kids Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Central Brevard Humane Society Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home