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The Spofford 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.

$103k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2018–2024.

Arts & Culture$127kEducation$123kHealth$105kRecreation & Sports$100kHuman Services$64kPhilanthropy$35kReligion$28kYouth Development$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $72k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FISHERS ISLAND RECREATIONAL PATH FOUNDATION$35,000
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC$27,000
ASSEMBLY HOUSE 150 INC$10,000
PENNYS FLIGHT FOUNDATION INC$7,800
FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC$5,000
BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC$3,000
STONERIDGE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION$3,000
ST JOHNS CHURCH$2,500
STEPHEN S JOHNSON MEMORIAL FUND$2,500
ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC$2,100
FRIENDS OF FISHERS ISLAND THEATER$2,000
CHASE BJORK FOUNDATION INC$1,500
OARS INC$1,000
EMERSON HOSPITAL$500
CONCORD-CARLISLE COMMUNITY CHEST INC$500
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 (FY18–24, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%STONERIDGE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION: $3k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $1k → 9%FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 7%WOMENADE OF GREATER SQUAMSCOTT: $1k → 5%FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7k → 7%FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7k → 7%FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 7%FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 7%FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 7%FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 7%FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 7%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

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VT
NH
NY
MA
CT
NC
SC
GA

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$504k · 22 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
28

Total granted

$504k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+22%

Still filing today

73%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • ASSEMBLY HOUSE 150 INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +858%
  • FI
    FISHERS ISLAND RECREATIONAL PATH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $85k · revenue +746% · 39% of their budget
  • FI
    FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $54k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • LM
    LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +9%
  • MN
    MAINE NATURAL HISTORY OBSERVATORYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +76%
  • WP
    WALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +58%

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
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Franklin Land Trust Inc

The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.

Environment
4
Aquidneck Island Land Trust

To preserve and steward aquidneck island's open spaces for the lasting benefit of the community while connecting people with the land that defines the island's natural character.

Environment
5
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
6
Bridgeport Hospital

To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.

Health
7
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
8
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
9
Brown Neurology Inc

To develop and maintain the department of clinical neurosciences at the warren alpert medical school of brown university and its affiliated hospitals as one of the premier departments in new england.

Health
10
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…

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11
Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc

To support bridgeport hospital by, in large part, fundraising, and further, to fund and promote activities of the yale new haven health system, the integrated health care delivery system of which it is a part.

Health
12
Woodland Pond Inc

Woodland pond, inc. dba woodland pond at new paltz, was created to construct and operate a continuing care retirement community (the "ccrc") named woodland pond at new paltz, under article 46 of new york state public health law.the ccrc…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fishers Island Conservancy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Local History MuseumsCommunity FoundationsYouth Development CentersCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Domestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%6%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%36%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,709

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

47 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. 47 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
36/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 · OtherTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN…STEPHEN S JOHNSON MEMORIAL FUND — $17,000 · OtherSTEPHEN S JOHNSON MEMORIAL FU…ICE HOCKEY IN HARLEM INC — $15,000 · OtherICE HOCKEY IN HARLEM INCST MATTHEW'S CHURCH — $14,500 · OtherST MATTHEW'S CHURCHALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION - CURE ALZH — $12,500 · OtherALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH F…ST JOHNS CHURCH — $12,000 · OtherST JOHNS CHURCHWALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION — $10,000 · OtherWALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORA…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC — $21,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SA…+18 more — $37,920 · Other+18 moreASSEMBLY HOUSE 150 INC — $85,080 · Arts & CultureASSEMBLY HOUSE 150 I…Henry L Ferguson Museum — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHenry L Ferguson Mus…MAINE NATURAL HISTORY OBSERVATORY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE NATURAL HISTOR…FRIENDS OF WEYMOUTH INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC — $41,000 · HealthISLAND HEALTH P…Pennys Flight Foundation Inc — $20,300 · HealthPennys Flight F…LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC — $20,000 · HealthLAWRENCE MEMORI…+4 more — $7,500 · Health+4 moreFISHERS ISLAND RECREATIONAL PATH FOUNDATION — $85,000 · Recreation & SportsFISHERS ISLAND …Moore Montessori Community School Inc — $29,500 · EducationMoore Montes…EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL INC — $25,000 · EducationEPISCOPAL DA…THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $7,679 · EducationTHE BUCKLEY …SANDHILLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL CORPORATION — $4,000 · EducationSANDHILLS IN…CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION — $2,500 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationFISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $54,000 · Human ServicesFISHERS IS…STONERIDGE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION — $3,000 · Human Services+2 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF FISHERS ISLAND THEATER — $11,500 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$167,420Arts & Culture$115,080Health$88,800Recreation & Sports$85,000Education$69,679Human Services$59,000Philanthropy$47,500

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 budgetASSEMBLY HOUSE 150 INC — $85,080 over 7y, 13% of budgetFISHERS ISLAND RECREATIONAL PATH FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetFISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $54,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC — $41,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetMoore Montessori Community School Inc — $29,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC — $21,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPennys Flight Foundation Inc — $20,300 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICE HOCKEY IN HARLEM INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHenry L Ferguson Museum — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMAINE NATURAL HISTORY OBSERVATORY — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetWALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $7,679 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF WEYMOUTH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMahoosuc Land Trust Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSANDHILLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL CORPORATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTONERIDGE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFISHERS ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCONCORD CARLISLE HIGH SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLENNY LEARNING INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARTS SOUTHEAST INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACT OF CONNECTICUT — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBE WELL BE HERE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEMERSON HOSPITAL — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDomestic Violence Services Network Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMENADE OF GREATER SQUAMSCOTT — $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOARS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHINKGIVE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMETROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRVNAHEALTH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC — $920 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Fairfield Foundat…Fleetwood FoundationThe McCance FoundationThe Long Stems Founda…The Willinphila Found…Elizabeth Ring Mather…The New York Communit…Jeanann Gray Dunlap F…The Frederic C Hamilt…Edwin M Johnston Jr F…The Sooner FoundationPatterson Family Foun…
The Fairfield FoundationNY24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Fairfield Foundation · Fleetwood Foundation · The McCance Foundation · The Long Stems Foundation Inc · The Willinphila Foundation · Elizabeth Ring Mather William Gwinn Mather Fund · The New York Community Trust · Jeanann Gray Dunlap Foundation · The Frederic C Hamilton Family Foundation · Edwin M Johnston Jr Family Foundation · The Sooner Foundation · Patterson Family 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 Spofford 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Oars Inc — 100% of income from government
  • St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Metrowest Legal Services Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Emerson Hospital — 3% of income from government
  • Rvnahealth Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Act of Connecticut — 1% of income from government
  • Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
9report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Spofford Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Spofford 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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