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The Sperry Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Sperry Family 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.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$250
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$1kEducation$1kArts & Culture$1kHealth$980Food & Nutrition$600Religion$300Philanthropy$250Recreation & Sports$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
6
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DAILY CATCH$250
PLANTATION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$250
BROOKMEADE COMM FUND$175
HUSSON UNIVERSITY$150
RED HOOK RESPONDS$150
RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER$150
HUDSON VALLEY HOSPICE$100
VINALHAVEN ELDERCARE$100
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$100
TACONIC HILLS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS$100
FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK$100
Individual grant recipient$75
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $775) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $75 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50 → 14%HUDSON VALLEY HOSPICE: $200 → 9%HUDSON VALLEY HOSPICE: $100 → 9%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $150 → 9%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $100 → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
MA
IN
MD
KS
TN
GA
TX
FL
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4k · 14 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$4k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+44%

Still filing today

64%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $475 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureFood & 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

  • HU
    Husson University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $575 · revenue +18%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $325 · revenue +27%
  • PI
    Partners In Island Education Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $300 · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RED HOOK DAILY CATCH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250 · revenue +281%
  • TO
    TOWN OF RED HOOK REC PARK
    one grant, 2023 · $100
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100 · revenue +59%
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
Hudson Valley Hospice Foundation Inc

To solicit, invest, and allocate charitable gifts and grants and perform research and community education on behalf on of Hudson Valley Hospice, Inc.

Education
2
Rochester General Health System

Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.

Health
3
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…

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4
Visiting Nurse Association of Hudson Valley Inc

Vna of hudson valley was formed to provide home health care to the people of westchester county. services include nursing; physical, occupational and speech therapy; medical social services; and home health aides. our mission is to provide…

Health
5
Penobscot Valley Hospital

To be our community's trusted healthcare partner, committed to the health and well-being of those we serve with compassion, quality, and excellence.

Health
6
The William W Backus Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

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
Hospice - Vnswwphc Inc

Hospice of westchester is committed to providing compassionate end of life care. we combine the highest level of quality medical care with emotional and spiritual support enabling individuals and their loved ones to make the most of each…

Unclassified
9
Nassau Suffolk Hospital Council Inc

& part iii, line 1: the mission of the nassau-suffolk hospital council, inc. (nshc) is to:- provide a forum for the exchange of ideas regarding the development of regional, state, and national health policy,- identify key policy issues…

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10
Windham Community Memorial Hospital Inc

The mission of Windham Community Memorial Hospital is to offer comprehensive services in an environment where innovation and teaching are integral to care; where we are proud to serve patients and one another; where meeting the challenge…

Health
11
The Hospital of Central Connecticut

The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
12
Adirondack Health Institute Inc

To lead and work collaboratively with community partners on innovative initiatives that advance quality, improve access and affordability, and transform health care delivery in the adirondack region.in march 2021, cvph and hhhn transferred…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Red Hook Fire Company Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 32 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANTATION COMM FOUNDATION: $401 · OtherPLANTATION COMM FOUNDATIONVINALHAVEN ELDERCARE: $400 · OtherVINALHAVEN ELDERCAREVINALHAVEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $400 · OtherVINALHAVEN HISTORICAL SOCIETYPlantation Community Foundation Inc: $250 · OtherPlantation Community Foundation IncTHE DAILY CATCH: $250 · OtherTHE DAILY CATCHIndividual grant recipient: $250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTACONIC HILLS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS: $200 · OtherTACONIC HILLS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARSDOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS: $200 · OtherDOLLARS FOR SCHOLARSBROOKMEADE COMM FUND: $175 · Other+9 more: $850 · Other+9 moreWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $325 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR…Hudson Valley Hospice Inc: $300 · Human ServicesHudson Valley H…THE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $250 · Human ServicesTHE RED HOOK CO…FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC: $300 · HealthFAMILY OF WOO…American Heart Association Inc: $205 · HealthAmerican Hear…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100 · HealthLEUKEMIA RESE…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $75 · HealthALZHEIMER'S D…Husson University: $575 · EducationHusson Un…Partners In Island Education Inc: $300 · PhilanthropyPartners …RED HOOK RESPONDS INCORPORATED: $250 · PhilanthropyRED HOOK …THE RED HOOK DAILY CATCH INC: $250 · Arts & CultureRED HOOK FIRE COMPANY INC: $100 · Public Safety & DisasterREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $100 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,376Human Services$875Health$780Education$575Philanthropy$550Arts & Culture$250Public Safety & Disaster$100Food & Nutrition$100

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 budgetHusson University: $575 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $325 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPartners In Island Education Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Valley Hospice Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlantation Community Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRED HOOK RESPONDS INCORPORATED: $250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RED HOOK DAILY CATCH INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $205 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED HOOK FIRE COMPANY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $75 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.

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.

The Ascienzo Family F…The Dyson FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ascienzo Family FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ascienzo Family Foundation · The Dyson Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Sperry Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sperry Family 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 32 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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