· Private foundation
The Spring 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $556k
- $250k+6 grants · $36M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TRAJECTORY FUND DAF AT FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $33,000,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,670,000 |
| ALSAC | $475,000 |
| ATLANTA MISSION | $250,000 |
| ST CROIX MISSION OUTREACH | $250,000 |
| TELLUS INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| OUTREACH HAND MINISTRIES | $130,000 |
| LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK | $100,000 |
| MYRIAD USA | $100,000 |
| LIFEWAY NETWORK | $100,000 |
| THE CATHOLIC SHRINE OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION | $76,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING | $50,000 |
| FLINT RIVERKEEP | $25,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| HOMOSASSA GUIDES ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 21% of The Spring Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION4× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +91%- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2024 · $950k · revenue +113%
- LNLIFEWAY NETWORK INC6× · 2017–2025 · $650k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- MSMARIST SCHOOL INCone grant, 2022 · $1.2M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $288k
- SCSigma Chi Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +69%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WATERFALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEWAY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN) ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Tellus Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX MISSION OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOLVING KIDS' CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FLINT RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds ENVISION ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMOSASSA GUIDES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Spring Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Spring Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami Inc: 22% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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