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The Spiritus Gladius Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k11 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS | $100,000 |
| GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON | $100,000 |
| EUGENE O'NEILL THEATER CENTER | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY MISSION SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| LEVELLAND WALLACE THEATER | $10,000 |
| THE BIGGER PITCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ORBIS INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| GARZA CO HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| CAPROCK CULTURAL ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| TRUDEAU INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| U S NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…
The mission of the george eastman museum, as a research and educational institution, has three interrelated goals:(continued on schedule o) -provide leadership in the fields of photography and cinema;-preserve and develop our world class…
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A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
We are a non-profit that creates positive change through the arts by bringing together people, businesses and organizations to create and enjoy cultural experiences.
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
Theatre development fund, inc. (tdf), a not-for profit organization founded in 1967 to promote the performing arts, is a broadly oriented service and advocacy organization dedicated to bringing the power of the performing arts to everyone.…
Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playwrights Horizons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 21 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 HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS ↗
- Who funds GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds EUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds N Y C MISSION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LEVELLAND WALLACE THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE BIGGER PITCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CAPROCK CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUDEAU INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LEWY BODY DEMENTIA RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE POPULATION INSTITUTE 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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Spiritus Gladius 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.
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 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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