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The Spivey 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.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$101kArts & Culture$72kEducation$21kPhilanthropy$16kFood & Nutrition$14kEnvironment$6kInternational$5kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$821k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC$5,000
PACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION$5,000
CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA$3,000
NAPA VALLEY MUSEUM$3,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$2,500
BELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC$2,500
CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$2,500
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$1,550
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA$1,000
THE EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT$1,000
SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$1,000
THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION$500
APPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WAYPOINT SERVICES FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $500 → 9%NEWS: $500 → 9%SF NEW DEAL: $250 → 10%SF NEW DEAL: $250 → 10%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $800 → 14%SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK: $500 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $300 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $300 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK: $250 → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%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

NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Spivey Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Spivey Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$209k · 38 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
48

Total granted

$209k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+9%

Still filing today

82%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +31%
  • SB
    Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation
    8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +74%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • MR
    MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +36%
  • MA
    MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +18%
  • D
    DIGNITYMOVESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue ×11
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
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
5
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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6
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
7
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
10
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
11
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
12
The Bar Association of San Francisco

The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Asian Mental Health Collective Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 94 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/83
Grantees still filing
53/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION: $60,980 · HealthPACIFIC VISION FOUNDATIONSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $17,000 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundatio…CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $6,500 · HealthCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA+10 more: $6,900 · Health+10 moreSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $48,100 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $8,075 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL…NAPA VALLEY MUSEUM: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $4,450 · Arts & Culture+7 moreTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $8,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UN…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $4,800 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFOR…GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $4,175 · OtherGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAN…CASA DEL HERRERO: $2,025 · OtherALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $2,000 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF CALI: $1,700 · OtherFOOD TANK THE THINK TANK FOR FOOD: $2,750 · OtherFOOD TANK THE THINK T…+41 more: $23,325 · Other+41 moreSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $15,550 · PhilanthropySANTA BAR…BELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBELLOSGUA…+2 more: $500 · PhilanthropyDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $7,150 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Human ServicesMONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesSANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $1,000 · Human ServicesSANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK: $750 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT SERVICES: $500 · Human ServicesNEWS: $500 · Human ServicesSF New Deal: $500 · Human ServicesAPPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL: $2,750 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,245 · EducationThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $2,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $1,500 · EducationCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,500 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE: $1,250 · EducationSANDE Youth Project: $1,250 · EducationSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE: $4,500 · Employment
Health$91,380Arts & Culture$63,625Other$49,275Philanthropy$21,050Human Services$14,400Education$13,745Employment$4,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION: $60,980 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $48,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $17,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $15,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $8,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $8,075 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $7,150 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE: $4,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $4,175 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNAPA VALLEY MUSEUM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD TANK THE THINK TANK FOR FOOD: $2,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAPPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL: $2,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,245 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DEL HERRERO: $2,025 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $2,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANDE Youth Project: $1,250 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY: $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITYMOVES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Bucket Brigade: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE NAPA VALLEY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth of MarketTenderloin Community Benefit Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION: $850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health Centers of the Central Coast Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTERS ALLIANCE: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK: $750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…The Kirby-Jones Found…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Brittingham Family Fo…Www FoundationG a Fowler Family Fou…Mosher FoundationWilliams-Corbett Foun…James S Bower Foundat…Towbes FoundationCalifornia Community …
Santa Barbara FoundationCA46.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Www Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Towbes Foundation · California Community 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 Spivey Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Spivey Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Chesapeake Bay Trust: 100% of income from government
  • Cornwall Conservation Trust Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Spivey Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Spivey Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 94 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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