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The Spectrum Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST | $5,000 |
| PROJECT CURE | $5,000 |
| BOOK SMILES | $5,000 |
| EPISCOPAL RELIEF DEVELOPMENT | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,500 |
| SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST | $3,000 |
| ROUND ROCK SERVING CENTER | $3,000 |
| BROADWAY CARES | $3,000 |
| HARVEY DANOWITZ FAMILY FUND | $3,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS | $2,500 |
| CHIHUAHUAN DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUT | $2,000 |
| ALLEGHENY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BABOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue ×18
- BBREAKTHROUGH5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +73%
BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- PCPROJECT CUREone grant, 2021 · $10k
- CLCHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVEone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -59%
- HUHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +36%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Texas Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Horse Power for Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds Round Rock Area Serving Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds Horse Power for Life ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME OF GREATER HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY GOLDEN RETRIEVER ↗
- Who funds El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission ↗
- Who funds CASA MARIANELLA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Spectrum Charitable 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.
- Booksmiles a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation — 1% of income from government
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.
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