· Private foundation
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.
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
- Under $10k36 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education6× · 2020–2025 · $283k · revenue +14%
- ECEMPLOYEE CONNECTIONS6× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +336%
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- ETENGLERT THEATER OF IOWA CITYone grant, 2019 · $71k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $41k
- GGGLOBAL GIVING COMMUNITY CARBON TREESone 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.
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.
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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.
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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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
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Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
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How this is measured
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.
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 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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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