A family in the work,
not at a distance from it.
The Spinner Foundation is a family-run charitable foundation supporting animal sanctuaries, children’s services, and medical causes. Since 2019, our giving has been guided by three pillars — compassion, protection, and sanctuary.
Jim, Nicole, Matthew, and Pam.
The foundation is run by the four of us together. We don’t take salaries, we don’t keep an endowment, and we show up to the places we support whenever we can. Below: each of us, in the work itself.
Jim founded the foundation and signs every check. His name is on the donation ledger; his hands have been on most of the deliveries.
Nicole drives outreach and is usually the first to arrive at a sanctuary. She vets new partners, scouts the work, and writes the introductions.
Matthew handles operations and follows up on every gift — making sure what was promised actually arrives, and that it gets where it was meant to go.
Pam is the foundation’s quiet center — the one keeping the relationships warm across years and the one who hears about the next cause first.
Compassion, innovation, collaboration.
The Spinner Foundation provides unwavering support to animals, children, and medical causes — improving the well-being of vulnerable and deserving groups through partnership, persistence, and care.
We partner with sanctuaries, shelters, family-services organizations, and hospitals that share one quality above all others: the people inside them do the unglamorous, day-to-day work of caring for someone or something that cannot care for itself.
We don’t ask for credit. We ask to be useful.
Through strategic partnerships, fundraising initiatives, and community engagement, we work to raise awareness, inspire philanthropy, and make a lasting impact — in service of a world where every being has the opportunity to thrive, be protected, and experience genuine compassion.
Moments with our partners.
We show up, in person.
At the benefits, the shelters, and the sanctuaries — alongside the people who do the work, and the animals it’s all for.
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The foundation is always open to new partners across all three pillars — animals, children & families, and medical causes. If you know of an organization doing the work, we’d love to hear about them.
A foundation that gives,
not gathers.
If you’d like to contribute, your gift goes directly to one of our partner organizations. We don’t take a cut. We don’t keep an endowment.