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The Yankee Springer Foundation

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.

$99k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$298kArts & Culture$140kReligion$126kEmployment$90kHealth$29kInternational$19kFood & Nutrition$19kEnvironment$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
$360
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$38,875
AMACHI$20,500
EMPLOYEE CONNECTIONS$10,000
RAVINIA FESTIVAL$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$4,000
MAKOM SOLEL LAKESIDE$2,980
WOLOCOTT COLLEGE PREP$2,591
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$2,105
ACLU$2,000
GREAT CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$1,500
CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$1,000
NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA FOUNDATION$1,000
JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRS$1,000
GLOBAL GIVING$1,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 10%IOWA WOMENS FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%IOWA WOMENS FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%UNITED ACTION FOR YOUTH: $500 → 15%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $400 → 14%GROWING GARDENS: $100 → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS OREGON: $100 → 12%SHALVA: $200 → 14%SHALVA: $200 → 14%SHALVA: $100 → 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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
CA
UT
NE
VA
MD
AZ
TN
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$656k · 56 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

56 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
73

Total granted

$656k
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+32%

Still filing today

63%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther
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

  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    6× · 2020–2025 · $283k · revenue +14%
  • EC
    EMPLOYEE CONNECTIONS
    6× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +336%
  • RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • ET
    ENGLERT THEATER OF IOWA CITY
    one grant, 2019 · $71k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $41k
  • GG
    GLOBAL GIVING COMMUNITY CARBON TREES
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
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
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
9
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
10
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
11
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
12
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Action for Youth; the most unlike its peers is All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 139 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
50/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMACHI: $92,500 · OtherAMACHIENGLERT THEATER OF IOWA CITY: $71,000 · OtherENGLERT THEATER OF IOWA CITYIndividual grant recipient: $41,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $23,088 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODAGUDAS ACHIM CONGREGATION: $19,000 · OtherAGUDAS ACHIM CONGREGATION+104 more: $91,262 · Other+104 moreTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $283,461 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth…+6 more: $5,410 · EducationEMPLOYEE CONNECTIONS: $90,000 · EmploymentEMPLOYEE CON…RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $43,000 · Arts & CultureIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $7,400 · Arts & CultureTHE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $2,158 · Arts & CultureCAYO: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $1,854 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $12,105 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $5,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS: $1,150 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $100 · Food & NutritionGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $11,265 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,200 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $2,204 · InternationalAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $1,350 · International+1 more: $100 · InternationalCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterShelter House Inc: $2,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $100 · Housing & Shelter
Other$337,850Education$288,871Employment$90,000Arts & Culture$58,912Food & Nutrition$18,355International$18,119Housing & Shelter$8,100

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 budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $283,461 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEMPLOYEE CONNECTIONS: $90,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $43,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $12,105 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $11,265 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $7,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS HEALTH PROJECT INC: $2,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $2,204 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Youth Centers: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $2,158 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAYO: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetShelter House Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLOWWIND SCHOOL: $1,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,115 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $775 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ILLINOIS: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral City Concern: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN INC: $650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ACTION FOR YOUTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP NEBAGAMON FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHALVA INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInterstitial Cystitis Association of America Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $404 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia Riverkeeper: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMedGlobal Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEthos Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING: $275 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFILMSCENE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Off Ramp Inc: $240 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLUCY BURNS INSTITUTE INC: $200 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.

  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds EMPLOYEE CONNECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Council on Urban Affairs ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Youth Centers ↗
  • Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CAYO ↗
  • Who funds Shelter House Inc ↗
  • Who funds WILLOWWIND SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY 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.

Meyer Memorial TrustOR26.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Larson Legacy · The Reser Family Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust

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 Yankee Springer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Yankee Springer Foundation. 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 7%
  • Friends of Trees: 100% of income from government
  • Hacienda Community Development Corporation: 48% of income from government
  • Friends of Zenger Farm: 28% of income from government
  • Ethos Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Central City Concern: 10% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Growing Gardens: 6% of income from government
  • All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise: 1% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
  • Tualatin Riverkeepers Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
20report 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.

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 139 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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