Massachusetts · Private foundation
Cheryl Spencer Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $26M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Cheryl Spencer Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $211k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $913k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $775k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $690k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $523k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $797k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $811k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maimonides School | $600,000 | 6 | n/a |
| American Jewish Committee | $303,150 | 3 | 0% |
| Hebrew Senior Life Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $200,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hebrew College | $150,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Rainforest Alliance Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cheryl Spencer Memorial Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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About Cheryl Spencer Memorial Foundation
- How much does Cheryl Spencer Memorial Foundation give?
- Cheryl Spencer Memorial Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $1,162,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Cheryl Spencer Memorial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Education (28%), Philanthropy (22%).
- Who are Cheryl Spencer Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Maimonides School ($600k), American Jewish Committee ($303k), Hebrew Senior Life Inc ($300k).
- Does Cheryl Spencer Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cheryl Spencer Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Cheryl Spencer Memorial Foundation based?
- Cheryl Spencer Memorial Foundation is based in MA.
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