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The Speyer Family 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$9.3MPhilanthropy$4.2MEducation$1.9MHealth$1.4MInternational$760kReligion$455kEmployment$315kCrime & Legal$175kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $360k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$400,000
COMMUNITY FUNDS INC$200,000
THE PLAYWRIGHTS REALM$60,000
VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATRE DBA LINCOLN CENTER THEATRE$50,000
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC$50,000
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$40,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$25,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE$25,000
DALTON SCHOOLS INC$25,000
SOUTH FORK BAKERY FOR THE SPECIAL NEEDS CORP$15,000
NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$10,000
CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC$10,000
BARD COLLEGE$10,000
THE CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE$10,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER & PUTNAM: $10k → 9%SOUTH FORK BAKERY FOR THE SPECIAL NEEDS CORP: $15k → 7%LIFEFORCE IN LATER YEARS INC: $25k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $25k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
MD
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 55 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
71

Total granted

$13M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+12%

Still filing today

87%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +13%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $550k · revenue +38%
  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $405k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • AM
    American Museum of National History
    one grant, 2020 · $800k
  • CF
    Community Funds Inc - Peltier Family Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • FI
    Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund - LGS Fa
    one grant, 2020 · $200k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
Berggruen Institute
Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
8
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
9
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
10
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
11
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
12
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr21%17%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr10%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr21%6%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr10%63%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/112
the rest of the field
12%
7,250/61,583

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

109 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. 109 of the 137 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/109
Grantees still filing
78/109
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $6,294,910 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC+44 more — $1,839,700 · Arts & Culture+44 moreCOMMUNITY FUNDS INC — $1,000,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FUNDS INCAmerican Museum of National History — $800,000 · OtherAmerican Museum of Nation…CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE — $290,000 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUEMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $200,000 · OtherCommunity Funds Inc - Peltier Family Fund — $200,000 · OtherFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund - LGS Fa — $200,000 · OtherNYP Fund Inc — $150,000 · OtherWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC — $150,000 · Other+44 more — $1,320,000 · Other+44 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $2,460,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVEST…SOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION INC — $162,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHAMPTON ASS…+2 more — $19,500 · Community ImprovementTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $544,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES …THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $405,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELL…COOP Careers Inc — $300,000 · EducationCOOP Careers …JUILLIARD SCHOOL — $250,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCH…Horace Mann School — $200,000 · EducationHorace Mann S…DALTON SCHOOLS INC — $175,000 · EducationDALTON SCHOOL…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $125,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL …+9 more — $295,000 · Education+9 moreTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $275,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $231,908 · HealthNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC — $125,000 · HealthTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION — $90,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $35,000 · Health+8 more — $155,000 · HealthInternational Rescue Committee INC — $550,000 · InternationalFOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 · InternationalBusiness Council for International Understanding Inc — $75,000 · International+1 more — $10,000 · InternationalLEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $100,000 · Crime & LegalTHE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN — $50,000 · Crime & LegalThe Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale Foundation Inc — $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Arts & Culture$8,134,610Other$4,310,000Community Improvement$2,641,500Education$2,294,000Health$911,908International$735,000Crime & Legal$170,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $6,294,910 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $2,460,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $550,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $544,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $405,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOOP Careers Inc — $300,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $275,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $231,908 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER — $210,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHorace Mann School — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Playwrights Realm — $180,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC — $175,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION INC — $162,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES — $105,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION — $90,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR ART RESEARCH AND ALLIANCES INC — $85,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBusiness Council for International Understanding Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SKIN ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSHED NYC INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundArison Arts FoundationThe New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Cowles Charitable…The Andy Warhol Found…Daniel M Neidich & Br…Ag FoundationThe Ford FoundationShelley & Donald Rubi…Studio in a School As…Helen Frankenthaler F…
Jewish Communal FundNY35.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Arison Arts Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Cowles Charitable Trust · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · Ag Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation · Studio in a School Association Inc · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc

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 Speyer Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
24report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 137 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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