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The Speranza Foundation
The primary purpose of the organization is to support and benefit, primarily through grants, the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints (here-after "the church"), its affiliated charitable, religious, and educational organizations, and other religious educational and charitable organizations whose purpose and activities are…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
- $250k+1 grant · $976k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS | $975,787 |
| BECKET FUND | $75,000 |
| HOUSE OF REFUGE | $33,000 |
| THE WITHERSPOON INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND RELIGION STUDIES | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION | $16,667 |
| MORE GOOD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CARE FOR LIFE INC | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 19% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 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 FY2024, 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
- TBThe Becket Fund6× · 2019–2024 · $525k · revenue +81%
- HOHOUSE OF REFUGE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $203k · revenue +161%
- WIWitherspoon Institute Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- MPMesa Public School Districtone grant, 2022 · $20k
- TCTHE COALITIONone grant, 2022 · $15k
- SHSTELLA H OAKS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +59%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is House of Refuge Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arizona Brainfood Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 The Becket Fund ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds Witherspoon Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA BRAINFOOD INC ↗
- Who funds MORE GOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Care for Life Inc ↗
- Who funds STELLA H OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILLENNIAL MUSIC ↗
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.
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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 Speranza 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.
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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