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Wa Speakman Family Foundation at a glance

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Wa Speakman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$914kHealth$220kYouth Development$200kArts & Culture$75kEnvironment$29kRecreation & Sports$18kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $140k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRYN MAWR REHAB HOSPITAL$25,000
TOWER HILL SCHOOL$25,000
WORK TO RIDE$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE$20,000
ST JAMES SCHOOL$15,000
CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL PRESCHOOL$10,000
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL$10,000
CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL$10,000
THE WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$5,000
UPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$5,000
DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES$5,000
TRINITY COLLEGE$2,500
DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE$2,000
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 (FY21–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LCH HEALTH & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 6%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 24 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
10

Total granted

$1.4M
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+77%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentScience & TechYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TH
    TOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +75%
  • UC
    UPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +71%
  • BM
    BRYN MAWR REHABILITATION FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $130k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +31%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • TA
    THE AUXILIARY OF NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL DELAWARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +38%
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
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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4
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
5
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
6
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
7
The Miller School of Albemarle

We create opportunities for discovery and reflection by engaging the minds, hands, and hearts of our students.

Education
8
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
9
The Harpeth Hall School

Harpeth hall is an independent, college preparatory school for girls and young women in grades five through twelve.

Education
10
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
11
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
12
Westminster School Inc

To provide the opportunity for a superior elementary and middle school education based on exceptionally high curricula and standards.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Tatnall School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

27 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. 27 of the 35 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JAMES SCHOOL: $163,800 · OtherST JAMES SCHOOLBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DE: $100,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DEDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC: $71,000 · OtherDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INCWORK TO RIDE INC: $70,000 · OtherWORK TO RIDE INCBRYN MAWR REHAB HOSPITAL: $60,000 · OtherBRYN MAWR REHAB HOSPITALKENNETT LIBRARY CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $50,000 · OtherKENNETT LIBRARY CAPITAL CAMPAIGNTHE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $35,000 · OtherBenchmark School: $35,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL PRESCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC: $30,000 · Other+6 more: $41,850 · Other+6 moreTOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $225,000 · EducationTOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONUPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $185,000 · EducationUPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $55,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INCWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $25,000 · EducationFoxcroft School: $22,500 · Education+4 more: $30,000 · EducationBRYN MAWR REHABILITATION FOUNDATION: $130,000 · HealthBRYN MAWR R…CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL: $20,000 · HealthCHESTER COU…STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $24,315 · Science & TechDELAWARE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $18,500 · Arts & CultureEleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: $2,500 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF WILMINGTON PARKS: $15,000 · EnvironmentDELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$686,650Education$567,500Health$150,000Science & Tech$24,315Arts & Culture$22,000Environment$20,000Philanthropy$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $225,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $185,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetBRYN MAWR REHABILITATION FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC: $71,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetWORK TO RIDE INC: $70,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBenchmark School: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $24,315 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFoxcroft School: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $18,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF WILMINGTON PARKS: $15,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUXILIARY OF NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL DELAWARE INC: $7,750 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TATNALL SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst State Squash Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Delaware Community Fo…Sharp FoundationWelfare Foundation IncNor' Easter Foundatio…Marmot FoundationRencourt Foundation I…Crestlea Foundation I…Longwood Foundation I…Ederic Foundation IncFair Play FoundationWakefield Family Fund…Laffey-McHugh Foundat…
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE29.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Sharp Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Marmot Foundation · Rencourt Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Ederic Foundation Inc · Fair Play Foundation · Wakefield Family Fund Inc · Laffey-McHugh 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 Wa Speakman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wa Speakman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Friends of Wilmington Parks: 53% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Delaware College of Art and Design: 32% of income from government
  • Historical Society of Delaware: 18% of income from government
  • First State Squash Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Pilot School Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Tower Hill School Association: 0% of income from government
  • The Tatnall School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home