Maryland · Private foundation
Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $80M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 138
- Grants FY2024
- 130
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 121 to 160
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 24
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.3B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.4M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 115 | $52M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 130 | $54M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 125 | $66M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 121 | $48M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 160 | $53M | 30% |
| FY2019 | 157 | $40M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masters School | $28,325,000 | 5 | 34% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $15,001,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Wheaton College | $12,115,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Media Research Center | $9,850,000 | 6 | 22% |
| Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc | $5,650,000 | 6 | 18% |
| Daniel Morgan Graduate School | $5,400,000 | 1 | 35% |
| Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship | $5,150,000 | 4 | 19% |
| American Council of Trustees and Alumni | $5,000,000 | 5 | 29% |
| Tim Tebow Foundation Inc | $5,000,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education | $5,000,000 | 5 | 17% |
Show all 263 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($61M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 41 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Donors Trust Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Searle Freedom Trust · Adolph Coors Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Charles Koch Foundation · Holman Foundation Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc
- How much does Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc give?
- Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc reported 138 grants totaling $79,892,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 121 and 160 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (35%), Philanthropy (19%), Public Benefit (11%).
- Who are Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Masters School ($28M), The Heritage Foundation ($15M), Wheaton College ($12M).
- Does Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc, Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated.
- Where is Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc based?
- Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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